BY
BEN COURTICE
MELBOURNE — “Why is the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national
office attacking the Victorian branch?”, AMWU state secretary Craig Johnston
asked a stop-work rally on July 17. Addressing around 5000 of his union's
501
BY DARREN JIGGINS
HOBART — The Socialist Alliance has achieved the highest socialist vote ever in a Tasmanian state election. With 80% of the vote counted from the July 20 Tasmanian elections, the alliance received 663 votes. The final total will
BY
SUE BOLTON
The Federal Court will decide on July 22 or 23 whether to overturn
the suspension of the Australian Manufacturing Workers UnionÂ’s Victorian
secretary Craig Johnston. Johnston was stood down by the AMWU national
office on
BY MARELYS VALENCIA
During a tour of Cuba, Ralph Nader, Green Party US presidential candidate in 2000, on July 9 stated that he was opposed his government's economic blockade of Cuba, which he said doesn't give Cubans "a chance to breathe".
BY LEONIE EASTMENT
BRISBANE — Since June 13, protesters have maintained a 24-hour protest
camp outside the Narangba site that Steritech proposes to build a food
irradiation plant upon.
Although the protesters managed to delay
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — Activists from the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) rank-and-file group, Members First, are campaigning against the latest tactic in the federal government's war on workers: using the federal government's New
BY JIMMY LANGMANÂ
On June 30, Bolivians went to the polls to choose their next president
and elect a new congress. No candidate gained the “50% plus one” margin
required for outright victory. Bolivia's congress will decide in early
BY MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
"Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch!" — US President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza.
There is something surreal about George W. Bush crowing to the world on May 20 about
BY PIP HINMAN
US military ties with Jakarta have been restricted since the 1990s because of the Indonesian military's (TNI) human rights abuses in East Timor. Now, Washington is using the "war on terrorism" as justification to renew ties. On July
PERTH — [This is an abridged version of a speech by Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) WA secretary KEVIN REYNOLDS to a Socialist Alliance-organised trade union seminar in Perth on July 6.]
The Royal Commission into the
BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY
MOSCOW — For 10 years now, a chorus of politicians, journalists and sociologists has been telling the Russian people a story as simple and appealing as Little Red Riding Hood.
It goes like this: society was deformed by
VARADERO, Cuba — "The most beautiful land the human eye has beheld" was how Christopher Columbus described Cuba when he "discovered" it on behalf of the Spanish royals in October 1492. Despite several hundred years of Spanish colonisation and US
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