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A Call To Arms
Workers Online returns from our summer break to face a world on the brink, the structures of global cooperation being crushed by the iron will of the earth�s last remaining superpower.
Interview: Agenda 2003
ACTU secretary Greg Combet looks at the year ahead and how a union movement can keep the focus on the workplace at a time of global crisis.
Peace: The Colour Purple
Local communities across Australia are taking stands against war by displaying purple banners. Jim Marr visits one.
Industrial: Long, Hot Summer
As Workers Online took its annual break, the world kept turning � at an increasingly alarming velocity.
Solidarity: Workers Against War
Joann Wypijewski reports on how union locals in the USA are fighting the hounds of war at home.
Security: Howard And The Hoodlums
With all the talk of terror, the Howard Government�s Achilles heel is its tolerance of Flags of Convenience shipping , writes Rowan Cahill
International: Industrial Warfare
Scottish freight train drivers have already acted to disrupt the war effort in the UK with crews of four freight trains carrying war supplies to ports walking off the job, writes Andrew Casey
History: Unions and the Vietnam War
The Vietnam experience steered some unions towards social activism for the first time. Unions are today key players in the anti-war movement, writes Tony Duras.
Review: Eight Miles to Mowtown
Mark Hebblewhites looks at two summer movies that tap into different sounds of American culture - white boy rap and motown blues.
Poetry: Return To Sender
Resident bard Divd Peetz discovers that Elvis has become the latest shock recruit to the peace cause.
Satire: CIA Recruits New Intake of Future Enemies
CIA Director George Tenet announced today that the agency has begun recruiting future enemies for the year 2014.
 The Cuffe Link � Taxpayers Cough Up
Carr: Secret Lib Plan to Slash Public Sector
Abbott Comes Out Swinging
Thanks a Million: Cole�s Lawyers Clean-up
Corrigan Dogs On Jobs Promise
Gnomes Fess Up � Unionism Best For All
Owens Survives 30-Year Ban
Ribs and Rumps Something for Government to Chew On
Badges of Honour
Guards Rail Against Assaults
Workers Online Scoops Global Prize
Currawong Must Pay It�s Way
Let�s Get Real! 2nd Australasian Organising Conference
Guard Knocked Out in Villawood Escape
Activists Notebook
The Soapbox
Getting On with The Job
Premier Bob Carr chose Trades Hall as the venue to launch Labor's IR policy for the upcoming state election. Postcard
Justice in Bogota
Sydney lawyer Ian Latham knows how to pick them. He�s gone straight from the Cole Royal Commission to justice Colombian-style. The Locker Room
Heart Of Darkness
There is a school of thought that there is, in fact, only one World Cup - and it doesn�t involve cricket, writes Phil Doyle. Politics
Danger Mouse
John Howard's politics have trapped him into supporting an unpopular war. He is in political trouble, Leonie Bronstein argues.
Bouquets and Brickbats
War Talk
A Tale of Two Malls
Talk Back Tom
On The Beach
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Letters to the Editor
Talk Back Tom
Is the proliferation of 'shock jock' type radio announcers in Sydney Radio, with their promulgation of on the 'edge of reality' views and opinions, the cause of society's discontent with our civilizing codes of conduct?
These 'Wind Bags', cherry pick the rules which they wish their listeners to adhere to , and depending on the 'Wind Bags' current circumstances then push these views while being paid through advertising revenue , by those whom they berate.
These bloated bladders of water and steam contribute nothing productive to society, they do not even reflect Public Opinion; they attempt to thwart it through the verbose manipulation of our desire to belong.
A bit like some corrupt politicial parties and their rorting , branchstacking , disenfranchisement of members and their generally low life behaviour.
I believe it was Mark Twain who said:
"Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain nor freed a human soul"
They are nothing more or less than Carpetbaggers of rabble-rousing rhetoric.
Tom Collins
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