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Workers draw line at Godfrey Hirst

Workers draw line at Godfrey Hirst BY TIM GOODEN GEELONG — A two-week strike at the Godfrey Hirst carpet factory looks set to escalate this week with textile workers likely to join members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU)

INDIA: Death of Marxist Arvind N. Das

Death of Indian Marxist Arvind N. Das Distinguished Indian Marxist intellectual Arvind N. Das died on August 7, just a month before he would have turned 52, in Amsterdam's Free University Hospital. A fortnight earlier, he had suffered a cardiac

IRAQ: US, Britain bomb civilian targets

IRAQ: US, Britain bomb civilian targets IRAQ: US, Britain bomb civilian targets United States and British warplanes attacked sites in northern Iraq on August 15. This followed heavy bombardment in southern Iraq on August 10-12. The air strikes

Left debates S11 blockade tactics

COMMENT BY JORGE JORQUERA MELBOURNE — Prime Minister John Howard and Victorian Premier Steve Bracks are now both on record decrying planned September 11 (S11) protests against the World Economic Forum as likely to be "violent". The protest

Welfare 'reform' aims to attack the poor

Welfare 'reform' aims to attack the poor The Coalition government is carrying out a "reform" of the social security, or "welfare", system. This is part of its multifaceted policy for shifting the burden of the problems of the economy onto poor and

THAILAND: Villagers seize dam, demand justice

THAILAND: Villagers seize dam, demand justice VILLAGE OF THE POOR, northern Thailand — It's early morning in the Kaeng Tana National Park and I'm on the verandah of a guesthouse overlooking the wide brown Moon River, just above its confluence

Campaign 2000 industrial action

Campaign 2000 industrial action BY MELANIE SJOBERG MELBOURNE — Industrial action associated with the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union's (AMWU) "Campaign 2000" is on the rise as the union campaigns for employers to agree to its claims

Refugee detention centres have to go!

Refugee detention centres have to go! BY PAUL BENEDEK SYDNEY — Chanting "Refugees yes, racism no, detention centres have got to go" and "Free the refugees now!", more than 1500 people marched on the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre on

'No increased military powers!'

'No increased military powers!' BY KAMALA EMANUEL HOBART — Chanting "Tax the rich, not the poor. Money for jobs, not for war!", protesters braved rain to demonstrate their opposition to increased military spending at the federal government's

It's us or globalisation

It's us or globalisation BY STEPHEN DARLEY Globalisation is not that new and not that different, despite some unique features. It's the latest phase of what we used to call imperialism — capitalism on a global scale, neo-colonising through

Indigenous Americans celebrate unity

Indigenous Americans celebrate unity BY BILL NEVINS ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — Turtle Island, Aztlan, the Land of the People: these are all names for the sacred places where the varied indigenous peoples of the Americas thrived for untold

Yelling abuse or winning refugee rights

Yelling abuse or winning refugee rights COMMENT BY PAUL BENEDEK SYDNEY — A protest at a Sydney University Law Society forum on August 24, which featured federal immigration minister Philip Ruddock, has raised questions about how the movement