Manuel Rosales faces almost certain defeat in Venezuela鈥檚 elections but he has told his supporters: 鈥淚t is true, we are winning.鈥
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Militant labour groups in the Philippines united to condemn the assassination on November 21 of Andrew 聯Bok聰 Inoza, the union president at the Alaska Milk factory in San Pedro, 30 kilometres south of Metro Manila, in the province of Laguna. Inoza was also the chairperson of the Laguna branch of the leftist Partido Manggagawa (PM, Workers Party).
John Parker, secretary of Victoria聮s Gippsland Trades and Labour Council, condemned the findings of the federal government聮s panel of so-called experts on nuclear energy. 聯Any attempt to build a nuclear power plant in Gippsland will be strongly resisted聰, he said on November 22.
On November 17 the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) claimed that workers聮 occupational health and safety rights have been cut by PM John Howard聮s government. Changes to the federal OHS act mean that employers, both public- and private-sector, will no longer have to include unions in OHS consultations.
Government and business representatives attending a Work Choices seminar at the Hotel Grand Chancellor on November 21 were met by protesters who described the meeting as a discussion about 聯exploiting workers, destroying unions and sacking people at will聰.
Question: How do we bring our troops home? Answer: In the same planes and ships we took them in!
Riot or Revolution: The Eureka Stockade 1854 鈥 The Eureka stockade told through re-enacted monologues by the characters of Hotham, Huyghue and Carboni. ABC, Sunday, December 3, 5pm.
Compass: The Other Zionists 鈥 A group of older Jewish women
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Directed by Larry Charles
With Sascha Baron Cohen and Kevin Davitian.
Directed by Larry Charles
With Sascha Baron Cohen and Kevin Davitian.
10 Excellent Reasons not to Join the Military
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg (ed)
The New Press, 2006
157 pages, $24 (pb)
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg (ed)
The New Press, 2006
157 pages, $24 (pb)
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
By Ariel Levy
Schwartz Publishing, 2005, $29.95
By Ariel Levy
Schwartz Publishing, 2005, $29.95
More than 2000 people are expected to rally in Cairns on November 30 against Work Choices, according to the Cairns Provincial Council of the Queensland Council of Unions. This would be the largest such demonstration yet in far-north Queensland.
Anyone who has visited this giant city of some 6 million people will know that one of the major social problems here is basura (rubbish). For years, the complaints of the population have mounted, along with the piles of garbage in the streets. Now, the Venezuelan government and the municipal council have launched a drive to tackle the problem.
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