BY
SUE BOLTON
The Federal Court will decide on July 22 or 23 whether to overturn
the suspension of the Australian Manufacturing Workers UnionÂ’s Victorian
secretary Craig Johnston. Johnston was stood down by the AMWU national
office on
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The United States is the most powerful and important backer of the state of Israel. A common explanation for this support is that the "Israel lobby" within the US exercises huge influence over Washington.
There is a powerful network of Zionist
PERTH — [This is an abridged version of a speech by Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) WA secretary KEVIN REYNOLDS to a Socialist Alliance-organised trade union seminar in Perth on July 6.]
The Royal Commission into the
BY ANDREW HALL & PAUL OBOOHOV
CANBERRA — Rank-and-file ACT activists in the Community and Public Sector Union grouped around Members First, have issued a call to all CPSU members who want to rebuild a democratic, broad campaigning approach to
BY JIMMY LANGMANÂ
On June 30, Bolivians went to the polls to choose their next president
and elect a new congress. No candidate gained the “50% plus one” margin
required for outright victory. Bolivia's congress will decide in early
BY MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
"Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch!" — US President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza.
There is something surreal about George W. Bush crowing to the world on May 20 about
BY MARELYS VALENCIA
During a tour of Cuba, Ralph Nader, Green Party US presidential candidate in 2000, on July 9 stated that he was opposed his government's economic blockade of Cuba, which he said doesn't give Cubans "a chance to breathe".
BY ROHAN PEARCE
When Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, in a July 17 speech to mark the 34 years of rule by his Baath party, attacked "evil tyrants and oppressors" — referring to US-backed Iraqi opposition forces, primarily former Iraqi military
BY
BEN COURTICE
MELBOURNE — “Why is the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national
office attacking the Victorian branch?”, AMWU state secretary Craig Johnston
asked a stop-work rally on July 17. Addressing around 5000 of his union's
VARADERO, Cuba — "The most beautiful land the human eye has beheld" was how Christopher Columbus described Cuba when he "discovered" it on behalf of the Spanish royals in October 1492. Despite several hundred years of Spanish colonisation and US
BY SARAH STEPHEN
On July 11, more evidence about the October 19 sinking of the boat SIEV-X (which stands for Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel — unknown) was presented to the Senate committee investigating the incident. The evidence strengthens
BY PIP HINMAN
US military ties with Jakarta have been restricted since the 1990s because of the Indonesian military's (TNI) human rights abuses in East Timor. Now, Washington is using the "war on terrorism" as justification to renew ties. On July
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