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[On June 17, the "Miami Five" while in custody sent a message to the people of the US] We have been accused of endangering the security of the United States and indicted on numerous charges, including crimes such as conspiracy to commit murder that
["From the multitudes of Europe, rising up against the Empire and marching on Genoa", a statement released by the Italian White Overalls, the Tute Bianche, an autonomist movement involved in organising the protests in Genoa.] We are new, and yet we
BY SARAH STEPHEN SYDNEY — In the early hours of July 19, 23 men lifted the floorboards of a demountable building used as a mosque in the grounds of the Villawood immigration detention centre, and crawled through the drainage system to freedom.
BY ANN PITSTOCK & KAMALA EMANUEL In the context of the racist media hysteria surrounding the rape allegations made against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission chairperson Geoff Clark, it was commendable that NSW magistrate Pat O'Shane
The internet's origins Talk to someone about the origins of the internet and you will get one of two views: the internet was originally developed to reduce the cost of US military research by allowing various research institutions to communicate
BY RACHEL EVANS MELBOURNE — Following the July 16 fatal shooting of Steven Rogers, a security guard at the Fertility Control Clinic, pro-choice activists around the country mobilised to defend the right of women to safe, accessible abortion.
BY NOREEN NAVIN SYDNEY — On July 7, delegates attending the NSW Teachers Federation's annual conference toured the most elite private schools in Sydney's eastern suburbs. The tour exposed the extent of federal and state government subsidisation
Due to a sub-editing mistake, an error appeared in Joyce Wu's article, "Labor left in bed with the sex industry" (GLW #456). The sentence, "In response, Lafayette ... argued that he did not see how the political and economic rights of women are

The British Midlands are being engulfed by race riots, pitting the children of whites who lost jobs in the country's devastating deindustrialisation against sons and daughters of those who came to fill service jobs in the

In partnership with the Augusto C. Sandino Foundation (FACS), and in response to a request for assistance from the Rolando Carazo Home for the Protection of Infants and Children in Managua, Nicaragua, CISLAC has completed another small project. In
BY ARUN PRADHAN MELBOURNE — Maribyrnong City Councillor Sara Coward has added her support to a planned community rally which will call for the closure of the Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre. The rally, scheduled for Footscray on July
BY GRANT COLEMAN PERTH — "In smashing a peaceful blockade, the police are not only denying us the right to protest, they are helping to deny hundreds of Nike workers the right to a decent wage", Roberto Jorquera told the 40-strong crowd outside