BY PIP HINMAN
The Indonesian military is stepping up its war against the Acehnese people. Jakarta has declared a "limited military operation" to "rid" Aceh of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM). The Indonesian government has branded GAM a "separatist"
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Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans KnewBy Richard BreitmanPenguin, 2000325pp., $21 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
It was "the greatest and most horrible crime ever committed in the whole history of the world",
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — The thirst for information, discussion and debate about issues facing the world's people and ecology in the era of neo-liberal globalisation was strongly evident at a "Fighting for the Future" conference held in Sydney
BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — The large turnout of 230 people for a March 17 dinner and public meeting here on issue "Free Aceh, Referendum now!" is an indication of growing interest in the struggle in Aceh among the Australian public.
The event was
BY SEAN HEALY
When it happened to the Brazilian real or the Turkish lira or the Thai baht, they labeled it a "currency crisis" and called in the International Monetary Fund but, this being Australia, the dollar's downward plummet to below 48 US
BY JIM MCILROY
BRISBANE — Community and Public Sector Union members in Centrelink offices and call centres around the country met during the week of March 19-23 to vote on a resolution from their union to launch a "community based campaign" to
A former member of the Labour Party's national executive committee, Liz Davies, has announced her resignation from the Labour Party after two decades of membership, and declared her support for the Socialist Alliance and other left candidates in the
BY SEAN HEALY
Peter Costello's 1995 comment about a weak Australian dollar needs one small but important revision: devaluation impoverishes every working-class person in Australia. For owners of capital, especially those who own assets in foreign
BY EVA CHENG
The pro-business reality of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement hit home forcefully in August when the Mexican government was ordered by a NAFTA tribunal to pay nearly US$16.7 million to US waste disposal Metalclad
Sabotage of Fair Employment Bill
MELBOURNE On March 20, 150 people protested against attempts by the Liberal
and National parties to block the Fair Employment Bill from passing through
the Victorian parliaments upper house.
The
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