Colombia film launched
SYDNEY — Around 70 people packed the Chippendale Resistance Centre for the premiere of the documentary Colombia — Peace at What Price? here on February 22. The film was presented by the Committee in Solidarity with
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BY PIP HINMAN& SIBYLLE KACZOREK
SYDNEY — An effigy of Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer, complete with "letters" from oil companies Petroz and Santos protruding from its suit pockets, drew curious students to an action on Sydney
Adelaide:
M1 action. Notice to be served on all businesses in Adelaide Stock Exchange. Thurs March 1, noon. Meet at trading board, Santos bldg, Currie St. Ph 8231 6982.
M1 Adelaide meeting. Every Thurs, 6.30pm. Canon Poole Rm, 5th flr, Adelaide
BY IGGY KIM
SEOUL — A detachment of 4200 riot cops stormed Daewoo Motors' Bu-pyung plant on February 20, ending an occupation by about 500 striking workers and their families.
The Bu-pyong workers began their strike on February 16, in
By Roque Antonio Grillo
On December 29, Argentinian president Fernando de la Rua signed a decree reducing the sentences the "La Tablada" political prisoners after a 116-day hunger strike. In commuting the sentences of most prisoners, the government
BY EVA CHENG
There has been such a big wave of domestic and cross-border corporate mergers and takeovers in the last few years that some commentators have started comparing their importance with the merger wave that took place in the US around the
By Stephen Marks
In shanty towns outside Buenos Aires, the French-Argentine water company Aguas Argentinas has "encouraged" communities to voluntarily dig ditches and lay pipes to connect their homes to the water mains. Privatised water companies
BY SEAN HEALY
Australia's aid contribution to poor countries is among the most miserly of any industrialised nation, according to a new report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The OECD report, released on February
Beverley uranium mine opened
BY JIM GREEN
The uranium mine at Beverley in northern South Australia was formally
opened on February 21. It is Australia's first new uranium mine since Western
Mining Corporation's Olympic Dam opened 12
Networker: Crisis free production?
Can the “new economy” escape the problem of the old capitalist economy,
the boom-and-bust cycle? (“New economy” is a term applied to a range of
corporations and activities with some connection to new
By Pat Brewer
2001 has been declared as the year of international solidarity against
the 41-year US economic, financial and trade blockade, the Cuban Adjustment
Act and all the supporting laws and regulations designed to isolate Cuba
BY LUKE FOMIATTI
SYDNEY — Early on the morning of February 19, 100 students and unionists joined together for a symbolic blockade of the "Designing, launching and managing a corporate university" conference at a luxury hotel in the exclusive
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