Middle East 'road map'
The article by Ahmad Nimer in GLW #537 does not present any solution to the Middle East crisis at all. His claim that, "The overriding priority of the road map is clearly ... a return to the status quo that existed prior to
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During a national phone hook-up on May 24, refugee rights activists decided to launch a campaign against the threatened deportation of Iranian refugees.
On April 29, Iranians in the Baxter detention centre were told by the immigration department
BY LOUISE WALKER
Ever since the federal government announced the higher education budget for 2003, a war of words has raged across the mass media. The rhetoric is set to heighten over the coming months.
That's because the government has made it
The Ruckus Society has produced the War Profiteers Deck of cards to expose some of the real war criminals in Washington's endless war of terror against the Third World. This is no Sunday bridge club. These are individuals and institutions that stack
BY JAMES CAULFIELD
CANBERRA — Speaking at an anti-war forum held on May 20, "human shield" Ruth Russell described Australian Prime Minister John Howard and US President George Bush as "armchair killers" who don't have to face the consequences of
BY MURRAY SMITH
PARIS — Following the success of the massive one-day general strike on May 13, the government of French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin is in deep trouble.
The May 13 strike, the largest since 1995, was in response to the
BY DOUG LORIMER
US President George Bush met with 11 "exiled Cuban activists" (as the US corporate media described them) at the White House on May 20 — the 101st anniversary of the adoption by Cuba of a constitution which guaranteed Washington
BY SARAH STEPHEN
On May 19, ABC television's Four Corners program presented a damning expose of the horrors that went on behind the razor wire of the Woomera immigration detention centre before its closure in mid-April.
In the first half of 2000,
GLW #537 reported on a motion passed at the May 10-11 Socialist Alliance national conference. Regrettably, the final section of the motion was omitted. This is the full motion as passed:
"Conference endorses these eight points:
"1. We want the
MELBOURNE — The Melbourne Workers Theatre and the Canto Coro choir present 1975 — A Populist Opera. Irene Vela's work explores the tumultuous events in Australia's political history that took place in that year, including the sacking of Prime
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"Russian President Vladimir Putin openly mocks America's failed efforts to find chemical, biological or nuclear weapons in Iraq... It doesn't matter... even if Iraq proves utterly free of WMD — or if it merely possesses a
BY MARCUS PABIAN
MELBOURNE — Part of the May 22 national day of protest called by the National Union of Students (NUS) against the Howard government's education "reforms", announced in its May 13 budget, 330 students marched in protest from
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