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BY ANDY GIANNIOTIS SYDNEY — With the demise of the Refugee Action Collective, members of the International Federation of Iraqi and Iranian Refugees (IFIR), the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) and independent anti-racist activists have
BY KAREN FLETCHER BRISBANE — The Brisbane M1 Alliance has pledged to build a peaceful mass blockade of the Brisbane office of the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) on May 1 and bring the business of neo-liberal globalisation to a standstill for a
BY MAX LANE In an escalation of tensions between President Abdurrahman Wahid and right-wing forces in the country's parliament, a full session of the DPR, the Indonesian house of representatives, voted almost unanimously on February 2 to accept a
BY NORM DIXON An international gathering of scientists in Shanghai mid-January presented a report revealing that global warming caused by the emission of greenhouse gases could result in the atmosphere's temperature rising by almost 6°C by
BY VIV MILEY John Howard upped the election stakes on January 29 when he unveiled his $2.9 billion innovation action plan, Backing Australia's Ability. The plan was applauded by business circles, university administrators and research bodies, but
BY JON LAND Imagine someone referring to prime minister John Howard and his foreign minister, Alexander Downer, as "more generous than Mother Theresa". You wouldn't be surprised if it came from a Coalition backbencher — but these are the precise
“Something that did concern me in your letter, however, was to read that since there was not 'a hint of Baldwin's sexuality' in the African American encyclopaedia you felt 'that is as it should be'.” — Sean Denis D'Arcy. The words above
BY STEPHEN MARKS NEWCASTLE — Thanks to international working-class solidarity, 160 Southland Colliery workers near Cessnock are reported to have won their entitlements back after the collapse of the Colrack Group on January 10. Colrack's parent

Palestinians have submitted a report to the United Nations saying weapons used by Israel to quell the four-month-old intifada in Palestine contained depleted uranium, the January 19-20 Jordan Times reported.

BY JIM GREEN Federal environment minister Robert Hill announced on February 1 that he requires further detailed information before making a final decision on the Honeymoon uranium mine proposal. The Honeymoon project, located 80km west of Broken
BY SUE BULL GEELONG — Following the demise of Wainwright's Tree in September 1999, this city has desperately needed a progressive bookshop and activist centre. The Democratic Socialist Party, Resistance and Green Left Weekly have announced that
BY GRANT COLEMAN At the national conference of the National Union of Students (NUS) in December, the socialist youth organisation Resistance walked out of the left-wing faction called the National Broad Left (NBL). Instead of participating in this