BY SARAH STEPHEN
Trade union leaders in Britain have called on the Labour government to abolish asylum detention centres and to scrap the voucher system of benefits for refugees in Britain, according to a September 11 ABC report.
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Anti-war plans underway
ADELAIDE — Resistance called a public meeting on September 15 to plan anti-war and racism campaigns. The meeting decided to organise a set of publicity stalls in Rundle Mall and to campaign outside high schools to rally
@box text intr = In the first week of October, thousands of people will take to the streets of Brisbane and Melbourne: in Brisbane, on October 6, they will protest the opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), while in
"Today's brutal crackdown is the reality of Australia's bipartisan approach to refugees. This hell hole cost $25 million to develop, and is one of the most isolated prisons in the world", Kathy Newnam told Green Left
We inform the entire progressive community of a milestone in the unification of the revolutionary forces in the country. The Partido ng Manggagawang Pilipino (PMP) and the Sosyalistang Partido ng Paggawa (SPP) announce their merger through a
BY VIV MILEY & SARAH STEPHEN
On the weekend of September 22-23, more than 300 asylum seekers had been sitting in boats off Ashmore Reef and the Cocos Islands for days — some for close to two weeks — and the government has yet to announce their
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — Two hundred people packed the Gaelic Club for a hastily called meeting on September 20 and unanimously endorsed the formation of a Network Opposing War and Racism (NOWAR) committed to stopping the US war drive and
Adelaide: Coalition Against War and Racism. Thursday September 27, 6.30pm, Trades Hall, South Terrace. Ph 8231 6982.
Canberra: Community peace forum. Wednesday September 26, 7.30pm, Griffin Centre, Bunda Street, Civic. Ph 6247 2424.
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Museworthy: Burnt Things
eyes widening into screens where animals-run-in-herds, someone shootingthe scene from a helicopter (one is always shot), the split-secondof a blink,
and darkness becomes the sort of sleep analogous to death,all we can
BY NORM DIXON
The Zimbabwe government has unexpectedly agreed to prevent further occupations of predominantly white-owned commercial farms, reinstitute a "fair, just and sustainable" land redistribution and to restore the "rule of law". In return,
BY MATT RICH
MELBOURNE — Australian students have begun to organise protests and anti-war and racism coalitions around the country.
On September 19, 200 students attended a speak-out in La Trobe University's Agora condemning the US-led military
UNITED STATES threats to launch a war in the Middle East in retaliation for the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington have prompted an outpouring of anti-war sentiments across the country, with peace vigils and protests taking place and
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