Being Irish, one of the thousands who left the country during the 1980s economic crisis, I follow Irish politics closely.
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The following article is abridged from a July 29 statement by the
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.
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.
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.
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 head of Venezuela's telecommunications agency (CONATEL), Diosdado Cabello, announced the immediate closure of 32 privately owned radio stations and two regional television stations on August 1.
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