Ireland: RUC suspected in lawyer's murder
By Dave Riley
A well-known human rights lawyer who had received death threats for her work representing nationalists in one of Northern Ireland's most volatile communities was killed on March 15 when a
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SYDNEY — On Friday, April 9, three top Latin American bands will be joining
forces to help raise funds for Cuba. Bands Candela, Charanga Libre and
Club Havana will perform a vast spectrum of Cuban music styles. The event
will take place at
Students across New Zealand are organising against government attempts to introduce "voluntary student membership" of student organisations. A VSM law passed last year requires all student associations to run referendums on "compulsory" membership by
Democrats denounced over 'lunatic fringe' charge
By Jonathan Singer
The Greens have called the Australian Democrats' NSW election slogan, "Silence the lunatic fringe", offensive and hypocritical. Lee Rhiannon, Greens upper house candidate, on
Native title attacked again in SA
By Emma Webb
ADELAIDE — The United Nations race discrimination committee has found that the federal Native Title Amendment Act (the so-called Wik bill) breaches the UN convention against racial discrimination.
By Cam Walker
March 24 marked the 10th anniversary of the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez tanker in Alaska, one of the worst oil disasters in history. Friends of the Earth International chose that day to release a report on Exxon and its new
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Rank-and-file challenge to MUA incumbents
By Dick Nichols
Nominations have closed for elections for all positions in the Maritime Union of Australia, to be held between April 14 and June 14. The election includes the biggest rank-and-file
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — Library workers in the Hume-Moonee Valley library service, covering an area from near-city Flemington to the dormitory suburb of Melton, shut down and picketed all library branches there on March 15 in support of
BAKRIE, a member Komite Rakyat Pekalongan (KPR — Pekalongan People's Committee) spoke to Green Left Weekly's SAM KING about his group's work organising the urban poor community in north-central Java. Question: What motivates you to organise Java's
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