Those 鈥渇ree speech鈥 crusaders at the Inter American Press Association are at it again, leading the charge in an international campaign against what IAPA president Enrique Santos Calderon decried on August 2 as 鈥渢he gravest attempt to silence the press that has occurred in the last few years in the region鈥.
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The class war in South Korea reached a new stage with the struggle of the Ssangyong autoworkers. The workers strike against layoffs began in May, and they occupied their plant in Pyongtaek, 50 kilometres south of Seoul.
Being Irish, one of the thousands who left the country during the 1980s economic crisis, I follow Irish politics closely.
Premier Anna Bligh was put on the spot on ABC television鈥檚 Q & A on July 30 when asked about a young Cairns couple facing charges for procuring an abortion.
Thirty Thomas Cook workers involved in a four-day occupation of the travel companies Graffon Street premises in Dublin were forcibly evicted by police., the August 4 Irish Times said.
鈥淗ousing is controlled by the market system, and markets don't understand people, only money鈥, Father Terry Fitzpatrick told an August 4 Socialist Alliance forum on confronting the human cost of the economic crisis.
NSW TAFE teachers in NSW will stop work on August 11 after the NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) proposed an increase of 71 teaching hours a week, an end to the allocation of professional development and a lifting of the ceiling on hours taught in any one week.
The article below is by Don Franks, an organiser with the . Unite is seeking to organise a citizens鈥 initiated referendum, a non-binding vote allowed for by New Zealand law, to raise workers鈥 wages.
The so-called beer summit between President Barack Obama, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge police officer sergeant James Crowley took place without incident on July 30 at the White House.
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