End the brutal massacre against the Palestinians!
End the occupation!
The Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) condemns the acts of war being carried out by the Israeli state against the Palestinian people.
The current uprising by Palestinians is a
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BY STUART MARTIN& MELANIE SJOBERG
Workplace relations minister Peter Reith is yet again planning to tinker with his own draconian industrial relations laws, this time with the aim of ensuring that employers can cut the pay and conditions of workers
On October 15, more than 130 Solomon Islanders — representing the rival militia of the Malaita Eagle Force and Guadalcanal's Isatabu Freedom Movement, as well as the central Solomon Islands government and the Malaita and Guadalcanal provincial
In August 1975, as the Suharto dictatorship was preparing to invade East Timor, Australia's ambassador to Indonesia, Richard Woolcott, sent a cable to Canberra urging compliance with Indonesia's plans to annex East Timor.
He wrote: "It would seem
RAMALLAH The events of the last 20 days in Palestine are without doubt
the most significant since the signing of the Oslo Accords in September
1993. They have brought to the fore the tensions inherent in any solution
to the Palestinian
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — Australian Manufacturing Workers Union members at five Southcorp factories here are in the second week of strike action, which began on October 11 in support a new enterprise agreement.
Southcorp has offered an average
Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and LoveBy Dava SobelFourth Estate, 2000429 pp., $22.95 (pb)
The verdict was "vehemently suspected of heresy" for holding the false doctrine, "contrary to Holy Scripture", that the Sun, not the Earth,
BY HELEN BRANSGROVE
SYDNEY — Sixty people marched on the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre on October 14 to protest against the mandatory jailing in grim, high-security prisons of men, women and children seeking refuge from persecution.
PRD suit against Suharto hampered
On October 18, the chairperson of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) Budiman Sujatmiko met with the National Ombudsman Commission to complain about "unprofessional" incidents by the court that have disrupted a law
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — Victorian tip-truck owner-drivers are on strike for better cartage rates. They have forced the state's plant hire companies to agree to improved rates, but are still in dispute with quarry owners.
Most of the drivers
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
Democratic Socialist Party national executive member Peter Boyle has questioned the October 10 ruling by Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commissioner Kathleen McEvoy against the far-right Adelaide Institute's web site.
Giant United States bank Citigroup announced a $3.1 billion third-quarter income and record year-to-date earnings on October 17. But its wealth couldn't help it avoid protests in 50 cities across the US and around the world, which demanded that
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