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Students protest 'dual role' of military By Max Lane On September 14, student militants organised protest actions in eight Indonesian cities calling for the end to dwifungsi ABRI (the dual role of the armed forces). The dwifungsi doctrine, which
'Hands off Assata!' By Deepa Fernandes Her name is Assata Shakur. Assata "She who Struggles" Shakur "the Thankful". They call her JoAnne Chesimard, and they want her as an accomplice to murder. I met Assata last New Year's Eve in Havana. She is a
By Wang Fanxi Zheng Chaolin, a veteran of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and a Chinese Trotskyist, died on August 1 in Shanghai. He devoted his entire life to the cause of the liberation of the Chinese workers and peasants. He was at once a
Filthy Rich According to the recently released United Nations Development Program report on global inequality, the filthy rich continue to own and control most of the world's wealth. The Human Development Report calls for urgent action to improve
By Shane Bentley SYDNEY — With disillusionment with Liberal and Labor increasing, more and more people are planning to cast their federal election vote for alternative political parties and independents. In addition to the better known
Nurses fight for better health care By Tim Gooden CANBERRA — Over the past several weeks, patients at Canberra Hospital have inundated the ACT Liberal government with complaints about cancelled operations and long delays due to a shortage of
Cuba updates Women in Cuba Cuba received praise earlier this month from the United Nations for the great advances made by Cuban women since the triumph of the revolution in 1959. Angela King, undersecretary general for the UN, has been in Cuba
By Nick Everett About 140 Community and Public Sector Union members stopped work on September 15 to support the union's campaign to reverse a $240 million-dollar funding cut to Centrelink, the federal government's service delivery agency. After

In a clear warning to Afghanistan's Taliban leadership, Iran has staged the largest military exercises since the 1979 Islamic revolution along the border with Afghanistan. Seventy thousand of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary

Chile: coup anniversary brings heavy repression On September 11, Chileans commemorated the 25th anniversary of the bloody 1973 coup d'etat that overthrew democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende Gossens. The coup was led by
Alternative parties discuss jobs, union rights By Rachel Evans MELBOURNE — "On the Election Trail" is a recent addition to 3CR's Friday breakfast show. On a recent broadcast, David Risterem from the Greens, Vannessa Hearman from the Democratic
Comment by Gwendolyn Nettlefold HOBART — A letter of thanks from the Officer-in-Charge of USS John C. Stennis, published in the August 11 Mercury, concludes that Tasmanians "have one of the best liberty ports that [the US Navy] visits". Oh