GLW issue 660, published 2006-03-15.

International Women's Day

On March 8, demonstrations to mark International Women's Day took place across the globe, many focusing on opposition to war and occupation. Palestinians and Israelis joined together at the Ar Ram checkpoint near Jerusalem and marched along the

Tony B Liar and the London bombings

Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, TerrorBy Tariq AliVerso, 2005104 pagesOrder at <http://www.versobooks.com/> REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER On July 7, 2005, four young British Muslims blew themselves up on the London transport system,

Fisk: Who's stirring civil war?

Pip Hinman, Sydney In a powerful presentation that included a short "war correspondent" tour of Bosnia, Palestine and south Lebanon, Robert Fisk reminded a packed forum at Sydney's Seymour Centre on March 6 that the US-led invasion and occupation

No uranium sales to India or China

Jim Green Friends of the Earth has condemned the irresponsible proposal from PM John Howard to sell uranium to India, which is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). As a nuclear weapons state outside the NPT, India is not

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Australian News

Defend the 'Dis-memorial Eight'

Peter McGregor The Packer Dis-Memorial Collective, named after our protest at Kerry Packer's taxpayer-funded funeral on February 17, is organising a "take-two" on March 14 at 8.30am outside the Downing Centre court in Sydney. Eight people are

State-sponsored sexual assault?

Dale Mills A complaint by prisoners' pressure group Sisters Inside led to a 20-month inquiry that found that in a four-year period, 41,728 strip searches were performed on women in Queensland's prisons. Only two searches found "significant

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International News

VENEZUELA: Chavez accuses US of secessionist plot

Stuart Munckton Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez claimed on March 5 that the US is attempting to build a secessionist movement in the resource-rich state of Zulia. Venezuleanalysis.com reported on March 8 that Chavez accused the governor

UNITED STATES: Wal-Mart forced to stock 'morning after' pill

Wal-Mart has been pressured by women's rights activists in the US to reverse its discriminatory policy of refusing to stock the 'morning after' pill. The morning after pill, which if taken within days of unprotected sex has a very high chance of

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Editorial

End the Iraq bloodbath: Bring the troops home now!

As the US, British and Australian governments enter their third year of occupation in Iraq, opposition and resistance to the occupation by the Iraqi people continues to steadily grow. Last October, the London Sunday Telegraph revealed that a secret

Cultural Dissent

The other side of oil

Corporate Social Responsibility Failures in the Oil IndustryEdited by Charles Woolfson and Matthias BeckBaywood Publishing Co., New York, 2005 216 pp. REVIEW BY BARRY HEALY Oil drilling on land or at sea is always risky but the oil giants

Artists Against Sedition

The Festival of SeditionHuskisson Community Centre, ShoalhavenMarch 18Phone Chris Nobel on (02) 4465 1285 Sandra Lee Like a large section of the Australian public, many artists, poets and musicians are concerned about the potential impact of the

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