GLW issue 615, published 2005-02-16.

UNITED STATES: Ritchie Bush goes free

On February 3, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund claimed a victory, as US Customs released a shipment of Stripburger anthologies that it had seized in November on the grounds that two stories in the anthologies infringed copyright. The two stories in

This week in history

February 16 1916: Emma Goldman is arrested in New York for lecturing on birth control. February 17 1938: The Amalgamated Engineers Union is deregistered after refusing to discontinue a strike in Sydney. 1942: Black Panther Party founder Huey

Rau case prompts calls to end mandatory detention

Sarah Stephen Asylum seekers in Australian detention centres and the refugee-rights movement have for years tried to convey the awful human cost of the mandatory detention system. But it took the horrific experience of Cornelia Rau, a mentally ill

SHOCKFACTS: War in the 20th century

An estimated 200 million people died as a result of war during the 20th century, including: World War I (1914-18): 15 million World War II (1937-45): 55 million Korean War (1950-53): 2.8 million Vietnam War (1960-75): 3.5 million Gulf War

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Australian News

Construction giant sacks hundreds of workers

Selena Black, Sydney On February 11, hundreds of building workers were sacked in Sydney and Queensland by the collapsed company Walter Construction Group. Walter went into receivership on February 1 and many more of its 1000 employees are likely

Tsunami and Aceh self-determination

BRISBANE — A Socialist Alliance forum on February 8 screened videos on the history and current stage of the Acehnese national liberation movement, and heard two speakers recount stories of recent upheavals and past conflict. Coral Wynter

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International News

UNITED STATES: New York to allow same-sex marriage?

On February 4, New York's state supreme justice Doris Ling-Cohan ruled that the state's Domestic Relations Law, which prohibits same-sex marriages, was unconstitutional because it denied the right to equal protection. Ling-Cohen likened the ban on

VENEZUELA: Revolution extends free speech

Stuart Munckton In an editorial on January 14 attacking the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the Washington Post wrote, "Mr. Chavez has pushed through a new law that allows the government to fine or shut down private media for

Further International News

Editorial

Resisting Howard's anti-worker agenda

Industrial relations and welfare "reform" are the two most important goals for the Coalition government's fourth term, Prime Minister John Howard told Sunday program host Laurie Oakes on February 6. Over the last few weeks there has been a torrent

Cultural Dissent

Western complicity in the Cambodian holocaust

Getting Away with Genocide? Elusive Justice and the Khmer Rouge TribunalBy Tom Fawthrop and Helen JarvisUNSW Press, Sydney, 2005320 pages, $39.95 (pb) REVIEW BY TONY ILTIS Commentators of the Gerard Henderson variety accuse the "left" of having

Discovering Manto

BY LINDA WALDRON In Lahore in early December, I met Toni Usman, a Norwegian actor of Pakistani descent working in Pakistan for a month to produce a special edition of the left-wing newspaper Mazdoor Jeddojuhd (Workers' Struggle). This January 13

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