GLW issue 581, published 2004-05-05.

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A woman's place is in the struggle: Why has the Respect campaign been canned?

When research shows that violence against women is extremely common, and that young women are particularly vulnerable, violence prevention becomes a matter of national importance. So why has the Australian government indefinitely halted an innovative

Get ready for a 'terror' election campaign

Sarah Stephen On April 26, Prime Minister John Howard restated to A Current Affair that his greatest fear for 2004 is a terrorist attack in Australia. But in reality, Howard's biggest fear is that Australia doesn't become a terrorist target, that

Fighting HECS increases

Since the beginning of the year, student activists have been struggling to stop university administrations from increasing student fees. Stuart Munckton, national co-ordinator of Resistance and a member of the Socialist Alliance, takes up the debate

IRAQ: Will US withdrawal lead to civil war?

Doug Lorimer If the US troops leave Iraq, "violence will fill the vacuum as groups struggle for political power, and we risk all-out civil war", John McCain, a leading Republican member of the US Senate armed services committee, declared in a April
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