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BY SARAH STEPHEN The campaign for safe abortion access has begun again after Steve Rogers, a security guard, was shot dead at the Fertility Control Clinic in Melbourne on July 16. Anti-choice groups such as Right to Life have attempted to
By Stephen Marks Workers at a maquiladora (foreign-owned assembly plant) in Nicaragua's Las Mercedes Free Trade Zone have defeated an attempt to break their union after a year-long struggle. On May 10, as the result of a court order, the
BY ROHAN GAISWINKLER Employment minister Tony Abbott is notorious for describing the unemployed as "job snobs". On July 9, he went further, blaming the poor for their own plight. He told the ABC Four Corners program: "We can't abolish poverty
BY TAMARA PEARSON Los Angeles, 1950: A pre-war light-rail system, one of the most extensive in the world, was dismembered by car, tyre and bus manufacturers and an oil company. Tracks were ripped from their routes, stations were torn down and row
BY EVA CHENG The delicate balance between the nuclear powers is up for a potentially dangerous shake-up after Russia and China on July 16 struck a formal alliance aimed at countering US President George W. Bush's "Son of Star Wars" anti-missile
By Neville Spencer After 1997, when the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) called off peace talks with the Mexican government, progress on the Zapatistas' demands for indigenous rights stalled. Although moves by Mexico's new president to
BY JODY BETZEIN MELBOURNE — An undercover police officer has arrested a prominent community journalist at the blockade of Nike's city superstore here on July 20, in the latest of many police provocations at such protests. Numbers swelled for
[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.
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 ALISON DELLIT "Why must anyone endure hunger, unemployment, early death from preventable diseases, ignorance, the lack of culture and all sorts of human and social afflictions for exclusively commercial reasons and profits?" — Fidel Castro.