'British government to privatise social security' says visiting unionist
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — "The privatisation process undertaken by the Conservative government in Britain in the Department of Social Security has been disastrous", Vicki
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By Marg Gleeson
SYDNEY — Activists from around Australia met here on November 3 for the annual national consultation of the Committees in Solidarity with Latin America and the Caribbean (CISLAC). The consultation was preceded by a public seminar
Doctors impose bans and rolling stoppages
By Kamala Emanuel
NEWCASTLE — Up to 2000 doctors from NSW's public hospitals walked off the job to attend stop-work meetings on November 6. The meetings were called by the Public Service Association
Turkish military kills Iraqi refugees
Thirty Iraqi refugees from the fighting in Iraqi Kurdistan were killed by Turkish security forces north of the Turkish border with Iraq in the last week of October, according to the International Federation of
Poem: Prolific Plantings
Prolific Plantings
These carefully sown crops
selectively planted in welcoming settings
to blossom like fireworks bursting
from receptive mother earth
instant blossoms of blood red hue
spattered with flesh and
Federal cabinet decided on November 8 to deny Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams the right of entry only recently granted to him by the United States, the UK and Canada. By Australian government standards, Adams is not considered of "good
After organising a very successful rally of 5000 people on November 2, the Brisbane Anti-Racist Campaign (ARC) has called for a national day of action against racism on November 23. Roberto Jorquera told Green Left Weekly that the call came from
The following is abridged from a letter written by three political prisoners in Leavenworth Federal Prison, Kansas, USA. FBI director Louis Freeh [has] urged members of Congress to hold hearings concerning ways to further limit the already restricted
Will you rebel?
"It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us." — Albert Camus
Consider the following list citing mistakes that have been made by an entire nation mired in the self-righteous and pretentious pit
Politicians have talked about democracy for 300 years and now people have come to expect it. Ask any American and they'll tell you that democracy is a self-evident truth. It's even written down somewhere.
The authority of the state is so tarnished
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