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BY STUART MARTIN WOLLONGONG - Unions have launched a campaign to improve pay and conditions for call centre workers, protesting outside the Stellar call centre on July 12. The campaign is in part a response to the continuing victimisation of
@box text intr = Dear friends, we are writing this letter to you in response to the request from the Socialist Party of Timor (PST) for financial assistance in the upcoming elections for the constituent assembly in East Timor. The elections
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS "At the beginning of the Aston by-election campaign, Socialist Alliance had one member in the electorate of Aston," the alliance's Aston campaign coordinator David Glanz told a post-election Socialist Alliance celebration on July
The left-wing Labour Party of Pakistan has polled well in the latest round of local elections, winning 21 councillors' positions in Lahore, Karachi and Rawalpindi, the country's largest cities, and garnering 29,000 votes across the country. While
BY MICHAEL KARADJIS In a case of breathtaking hypocrisy, a court controlled by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has put on trial for war crimes the former leader of a country against which NATO itself committed war crimes. No US or other
Interchangeable "The last Republican who actually did something good for African-Americans was the so-called 'Great Emancipator', Abraham Lincoln. It should be noted that the good he did was motivated by his party's need for political expediency
BY SARAH STEPHEN Taking office on July 30, Pru Goward will be Australia's fifth Sex Discrimination Commissioner. A close friend of hers, John Howard, appointed her to the $172,000 position, which has a five-year term. A high-profile journalist,
@box text intr = On behalf of the Anti-Privatisation Alliance and all the people fighting against the World Bank/IMF program in Papua New Guinea, we would like to extend our best wishes and gratitude to all our friends and comrades in Australia for
BY EVA CHENG Malaysia's prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, in power for 20 years, has turned increasingly to a notorious repressive law, in a desperate attempt to crush rising internal dissent. Enacted in 1960, the Internal Security Act allows for
BY JOYCE WU Why is the Labor left so keen on mainstream business lobbyists that it's asking for their opinions on human rights, free speech and personal freedom at its conferences — and not providing space for independent, critical voices? On
BY SEAN HEALY While their press secretaries will no doubt come up with a headline-grabbing figure to spin it otherwise, the leaders of the world's eight largest industrialised economies are preparing to ignore worldwide calls to "drop the debt" at
Smart tags Microsoft Corporation is currently in the process of rolling out a huge new product range with names like Hailstorm and Windows XP. Meanwhile, we are being told by top Microsoft officer Steve Ballmer that because it is free, Linux, an