John Cleary
There are about 35,000 electrical industry workers in Venezuela. They are organised in 30 unions, which together form Fetraelec. About 80% of all workers in the electrical industry are in unions.
A new leadership was elected in
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Simon Cunich
The strengthening of Australia's "anti-terrorism" laws proposed by the federal government includes creating new offences for "those who communicate inciting messages ... including against Australia's forces overseas and in support of
Roberto Jorquera, Melbourne
On October 29, a stall selling Â鶹ӳ» Weekly in the inner-city suburb of Brunswick was ordered to leave by police who had been called by the Barkly Square Shopping Centre management.
Barkly Square has been the
According to a report issued on October 24 by the Palestinian National Information Centre, 4172 Palestinians have been killed and 8435 have been wounded in the five years since the beginning of the Al Aqsa intifada. Of those killed, 783 were
Emma Murphy, Adelaide
The Rice/Rumsfeld Reception Committee (RRRC) has received, from various sources, reliable information that US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld will be in Adelaide on November 16-18.
This information follows several months
The Latham DiariesBy Mark LathamMelbourne University Press, 2005429 pages, $39.95 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
No wonder federal ALP politicians are narked. Mark Latham, after eleven years in federal parliament (including a year as leader of the
Big bucks and the triumph of Wests Tigers
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
In a nation dominated by the ruling class, where sport is a commodity ruled by big money - more like a Big Mac on wheels than an athletics contest - sometimes remarkable events,
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