More than 2000 people rallied at Fremantle Esplanade to celebrate May Day and to call for the scrapping of all of the anti-worker laws of the previous government.
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More than 10,000 unionists marched through Brisbane鈥檚 streets on May 5, celebrating the union movement鈥檚 role in the defeat of the Howard government last year. The annual Labour Day parade was led by the building unions, with the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) in the lead. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of the original building workers\' union in Queensland.
The Western press has been untiring with respect to the changes happening in Cuba after Raul Castro鈥檚 election as president of the Republic and have celebrated a possible liberalisation of the island鈥檚 economy.
Below is an abridged May 7 statement from the Burma Partnership Secretariat.
Redfern聮s historic 聯Block聰 will be the site of the Aboriginal Rights Coalition聮s (ARC) first national conference, to be held on May 23-25. The Socialist Alliance gives full support to this initiative, a valuable occasion for Aboriginal people and their supporters from around Australia to share experiences and chart the way forward for Indigenous rights.
After a four-hour community blockade on April 9, Melbourne Chef agreed to pay out sacked National Union of Workers (NUW) member Abdelwahab Bekhaled and negotiate a collective agreement at the site. However, the company reneged on the agreement, sparking a month-long union campaign. Bekhaled has finally received a payout that included long-service leave and all his entitlements.
For the South Korean left, the April 9 general election was another fiasco following the presidential election last December, in which the election of Lee Myung-bak brought forth the return of the conservative government. Democratic Labor Party (DLP) candidate Kwon Young-gil received just 3%, less than the previous result in 2002 聴 a drop of 300,000 votes.
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Dick Nichols聮 article 聯Let the Tibetans decide their future聰 (Write On #748) argues that it is irrelevant that 聯the Tibetan resistance army up until 1959 was funded and trained by the CIA聰. This statement is incorrect, as he meant to write 1969 not 1959. More importantly, however, contrary to Nichols opinion, I believe that understanding the reasons why the CIA supported the Tibetans is very significant if one wants to develop a full understanding of the corporate media聮s ongoing fixation on Tibet聮s struggle for liberation.
On May 5, Victorian Premier John Brumby and education minister Bronwyn Pike announced that they had struck a deal with the Victorian Australian Education Union (AEU) over teachers聮 pay. While there are several aspects of the agreement to be finalised, the government decided to go public and claimed that Victorian teachers are now the highest-paid teachers in Australia.
A day of violence, fraud and a 鈥済rand rebellion鈥 against the Santa Cruz oligarchy.
Below is an abridged April 30 Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) article. Visit http://cispes.org.
United States: Innocent Black man\'s murderers walk free and an anti-racist preacher is the problem?
On April 25, the three cops who murdered African American Sean Bell in a hail of 50 bullets in New York were acquitted of all charges.
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