GLW issue 486, published 2002-03-27.

INDONESIA: Australia, US renew military ties with killing machine

BY MAX LANE Almost every day, details of the murder of Acehnese civilians by Indonesian military forces are reported by democratic and human rights organisations and international news agencies. At least 300 killings have been reported since

UNITED STATES: H. Rap Brown framed

BY KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR ATLANTA — Jamil Abdullah al Amin, the former 1960s Black Power leader, then known as H. Rap Brown, was found guilty on March 9 of shooting one Atlanta cop to death and injuring another. Prosecutors are seeking the death

Why Dean Mighell is right

[The following is an excerpt from a statement issued by the Socialist Alliance in Melbourne on March 20.] Dean Mighell is 100% correct to say that the ALP has turned its back on the working class. One of the first acts of the Bracks

Write on: Letters to the editor

Racist cops I finished brushing the paste on yet another Resistance "No War" poster, we rounded the corner and saw two police striding quickly, straight at us. "Cops" someone muttered as we all instinctively about faced and walked back round the

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Australian News

1000 votes for ratbags!

BY SUZIE AMBROSE DARWIN — The prediction of the March 7 NT News editorial — "No votes for ratbags" — was disproved in the March 16 elections for Lord Mayor of Darwin. Socialist Alliance candidate Ruth Ratcliffe received 1057 votes after

East Timor leader speaks

BY KERRYN WILLIAMS CANBERRA � �I used to be an activist, where I was very flexible and could criticise everything, but now I'm representing East Timor�, East Timor's deputy minster for foreign affairs and cooperation Fernando de

Further Australian News

International News

Millions rally in Rome against labour law reform

Three million demonstrators marched through Rome on March 23 to protest new labour laws which will make it easier for employers to sack workers. The protest, the biggest ever held in Italy, was organised by the CGIL trade union federation.From Green

UNITED STATES: CIA tortures, executes suspected terrorists

BY CHRIS FLOYD The rule of law is dead. Even as a fiction, a dream of human betterment — of "civilization", to use that word we hear so often on the lips of warlords and terrorists these days — the idea of law has been discarded, trashed: just

Further International News

Editorial

ALP trickle will become a flood

ALP trickle will become a flood The response of rank-and-file unionists to Victorian Electrical Trades Union leader Dean Mighell's resignation from the Labor Party was predictable: �Good on yer mate, it's about time!� They don't want

Cultural Dissent

Spearhead: A very special performance

BY STEVE DAY ADELAIDE — On March 8, San Francisco-based group Spearhead treated punters to a very special performance that will stick in the minds of many for a while to come. The charismatic Michael Franti hosted an evening of hip hop, funk,

The play of the strikes that stopped the nation

SYDNEY — A key episode of Australian trade union and working-class history, the great strikes of the 1890s, will be brought to life when New Theatre stages Reedy River. 2002 is the New Theatre's 70th anniversary year. In an attempt to offset

Further Cultural Dissent

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