Sarah Stephen
After four meetings culminating in six hours of crisis talks on June 17, Prime Minister John Howard emerged with a deal he could be proud of. Speaking at a press conference that same day, Howard called the compromise deal with four
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Duroyan Fertl
After almost five years, and countless thousands of people dead and disappeared, the US$7.5 billion initiative known as "Plan Colombia" has failed — politically and militarily — to bring an end to the crisis that characterises
Scottish Socialist Party parliamentarian Rosie Kane, recently returned from Cuba, reported in the June 12 Sunday Mail on her visit to a bar in the Cuban capital: "Over a rum and ice, I got chatting with the locals. They wanted to know about Scotland,
Australian Biography — Bill Harney discusses tradition in contemporary Aboriginal life, equal pay for Aboriginal workers and alcohol abuse. SBS, Friday, June 24, 3pm.
Crim TV — Koori prisoners in Long Bay Jail make a video on the harsh
Venezuela
I wish to address Ray Fulcher's concerns ("Write On", GLW #629) regarding my article in Socialist Worker detailing my all too brief stay in Venezuela. For the record, the article described an all too brief visit to Venezuela I made
Kim Bullimore
Since early June, almost-daily peaceful protests in the Salfit district of the West Bank have been hit by teargas, stun grenades, live ammunition and rubber bullets by Israeli occupation forces. The residents of Salfit are trying to
Peter Boyle
On June 16, the federal minister for employment and workplace relations, Kevin Andrews, used a Dorothy Dix question to attack the June 11 National Trade Union Fightback Conference, singling out Socialist Alliance members Chris Cain and
June 24
1978: The first Sydney Mardi Gras march ends in a police riot.
June 25
1876: US cavalry face the biggest defeat in their war against Native Americans in the Battle of Little Big Horn.
1955: During a three-week strike in NSW,
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane
Anti-war campaigners from Brisbane and other parts of Australia gathered in Rockhampton over the June 10-12 weekend to protest against Operation Talisman Sabre, the largest military exercise ever held in Australia.
Involving
Douglas Wood, the US-based, Australian construction contractor held for six weeks by Iraqi resistance fighters, has been freed. But what about the hundreds of Arabic- speaking and Turkomen Iraqis who have been abducted at gunpoint in the northern
CANBERRA — The June 1 meeting of the ACT Trades and Labour Council, commonly known as Unions ACT, voted to hold a rally on June 26 (a Sunday) outside the Liberal Party national council meeting at the Hyatt Hotel to protest against the federal
On June 12, the International Labor Organization rejected a request by Fedecameras, Venezuela's largest employer group, to open an investigation into supposed abuses of workers' rights in Venezuela. Fedecameras's ILO delegate walked out in protest at
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