On July 26, we celebrated, with the Cuban people, one of the most remarkable achievements of bravery and commitment to justice in our time.
It is an achievement that in spite of all the hardship inflicted on them for so many years by an unrelenting
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BY MARCEL CAMERON
BRISBANE — Workers employed at the Bradken company's Karrabin railway carriage making plant near Ipswich have set up a picket line after being locked out on July 16.
As part of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union's
BY MATTHEW RICH
MELBOURNE — On July 18, 60 people attended a public meeting on Indonesia's war on Aceh, organised by Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific (ASAP).
The speakers were John Martinkus, a journalist recently returned from
BY CHRIS LATHAM
During the past two decades, the number of Australian workers employed as casual workers has grown dramatically. More than 2 million workers — or a quarter of the workforce — are now employed on a casual basis.
"Casual
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BY ANDY McINERNEY
When Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez was first elected in 1998, millions of the country's poor and working-class people put their hopes in him to build a government capable of advancing their interests. Four and a half years
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
VILLA GRIMALDI, Santiago — Until the end of the 1980s, Villa Grimaldi was the centre of detention and torture of Chilean citizens during the US-backed dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, who seized power on September 11,
BY JESS MELVIN
MELBOURNE — On July 21, more than 100 students from the Victorian College of the Arts — 10% of the student population — disrupted a senior-staff meeting to place demands on VCA director Andrea Hull.
The college arts school
BY GRANT COLEMAN
The federal government's plans for higher education, contained in the package "Our universities: backing Australia's future", represent the most decisive step towards a tiered, privatised system since the abolition of free
BY ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE — Blindfolded, giggling children trying to hit a pi¤ata is not unusual. But when the pi¤ata looks like "Uncle Sam" with a skull for a face, you know this is no ordinary fiesta.
Fifty years after Fidel Castro led an
BY SUE BOLTON
MELBOURNE — Fifteen Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) members and one Electrical Trades Union member appeared in the county court on July 21 and 22 over an industrial dispute involving Johnson Tiles and Skilled
BY NOREEN NAVIN& OWEN RICHARDS
SYDNEY — Thousands of NSW teachers will stop work for two hours on July 29 to discuss the NSW Teacher Federation's negotiations with Premier Bob Carr's Labor government over teachers' salaries.
NSW teachers have
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