Despite the announcement on July 31 by Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid that refugee camps in West Timor controlled by the pro-Jakarta militia will be closed, the fate of tens of thousands of East Timorese refugees remains perilous. The terror
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Students occupy in IVF protest
BY ANGELA LUVERA
BRISBANE — Students from various political persuasions — socialists, Laborites, anarchists — united to protest against John Howard's plan to restrict access to in vitro fertilisation by
Why have an ALP conference?
BY SUE BOLAND
Why does the ALP hold national conferences? With almost all the votes sewn up before the conference and virtually all the delegates being MPs, party apparatchiks and union officials, it cannot be to
Proscribed political line
"[During Georgia's legislative sessions it is] illegal for legislators to accept campaign money (but not for donors to give it). The contributions are prohibited to help avoid conflicts of interest and the appearance
FIJI: Why the military turned on Speight
Following the arrest of coup leader George Speight and more than 360 of his supporters by the Fiji military on July 26, many mainstream observers are claiming that "normalcy" is returning in Fiji. However,
Villawood under siege
July 24: Hunger strike by 100 asylum seekers begins at Villawood Immigration Detention Centre. A roll call occurs five times a day. Twenty Refugee Action Collective activists, outside the camp showing their solidarity, are
The rise and degeneration of Polish Solidarity
BY CHRIS SLEE
Twenty years ago, on August 14, a strike began at the Lenin shipyards in Gdansk, Poland, which led to the birth of the independent Solidarity trade union movement. This movement went on
Setting the record straight
REVIEW BY BILL NEVINS
God and the FBIJanis IanWindham Hill State executions, antisemitism, racial segregation, book burnings, war, government surveillance and the terrorising of civilians, firings, black-listings,
BY MARGARET ALLUM
Dennis Shanahan, the Australian newspaper's political editor,
wrote on the front page of the August 2 edition that John Howard's announcement
that he will introduce amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act to
BY PAUL BENEDEK
"Riot police and detention centre security broke down the doors, gassed the hunger strikers, put them in steel handcuffs and threw them like animals into waiting trucks to be taken away." Is this a scene from Nazi Germany in the
Lift the sanctions on Iraq!
BY LEIGH HUGHES
When asked in 1996 about the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children from United States-enforced sanctions against the country, US secretary of state Madeleine Albright declared "the price is worth it".
Fringe theatre gets a boost at last
Rough CutsBelvoir St Downstairs, SydneyUntil August 13 REVIEW BY BRENDAN DOYLE
Theatre in Sydney is still losing ground to the multiplex cinemas, television and the home computer. The subsidised,
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