Sue Bull, Melbourne
In a massive show of defiance, 5000 building workers walked off the job on May 4 in protest against PM John Howard planned anti-union industrial relations legislation.
The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union
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Norman Solomon
Years from now, when historians look back at agenda-building for a missile attack on Iran, they should closely examine a story that took up the USA's most coveted space for media spin — the upper right corner of the New York Times'
SYDNEY — The final Gaywaves program went to air on April 14 but its team of volunteers has vowed to fight 2SER's decision to axe it. Presenter Tim Govers criticised the station's decision to cancel the long-running gay and lesbian show, which
ADELAIDE — On May 4, 1000 people attended a rally organised by the construction workers' union (CFMEU) to protest the Howard government's industrial relations agenda. The rally was timed to coincide with an employers' luncheon at which workplace
Message Stick: Nature/Ganggu Mama — A blind musician learns and masters the didgeridoo. ABC, Friday, May 13, 6pm.
Get Up Stand Up: We are the World — Looks at the link between music and politics. ABC, Saturday, May 14, 10pm.
Without Lying
Eva Cheng
Beijing has gone to great lengths recently to intimidate anti-Japanese groups and activists to prevent further mass protests against Japan, such as those that occurred in April. The spark for the protests was Tokyo's new attempts to
The Turkish government has handed over 140,000 pages of documentation from the Ottoman era to the Palestinian Authority. The documents from the period between 1500 and 1914 include archives documenting Palestinian land ownership in the West Bank,
Vannessa Hearman
On April 29, Greens Senator Kerry Nettle met with local East Timorese in Darwin and condemned the "resource-sharing" deal offered to the Timorese by the federal Coalition government as "manifestly unfair". She said that the deal
The British elections were not good news for New Labour PM Tony Blair. Although New Labour will have a workable majority of 66 seats, the 36% of the popular vote it won is the lowest ever for an incoming British government. Voters abandoned Labour in
More than 1 million Cubans participated in this year's May Day march in Havana. Addressing a huge rally in the city's Revolution Square, Cuban President Fidel Castro denounced the US government for giving sanctuary to the terrorist Luis Posada
The number of inmates in US jails jumped from 320,000 in 1980 to 2 million in 2000.
One out of every 142 people in the US is behind bars.
There were 13.6 million arrests in 2003.
An average of US$7 billion a year for the past 10 years was spent
A late February poll by Datanalisis, a company linked to the president's opponents, found that support for left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has risen to 70.5%. This is a significant increase in support since August 2004, when a referendum
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