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Martha Gellhorn: more than a war reporter

Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn — Reporter, Lover, Traveller and RebelBy Carl RollysonDuffy and Snellgrove, 2001284 pages, $19.95 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Even without being the lover of HG Wells and the wife of Ernest

AFGHANISTAN: US relatives show solidarity with war victims

US relatives of victims of the September 11 terrorist strikes delivered compensation claims to US officials in Kabul on January 22 on behalf of Afghan civilians who have lost family members or homes in Washington's bombing of Afghanistan. Agence

Museworthy: Sleeping Child

Make the night your bodyDark child of the chest,how not to clutchthe face to your neck?Symbol of the war,the wonder, the ruin,can this gloryof a thousand black thingsbe born nowin your one last raidon the night?Whisper, day,to the basket droppedat

Sidestepping Washington's Saudi landmines

Saudi Time Bomb?WGBH FrontlineSBSTuesday, February 5, 8.30pm REVIEW BY NORM DIXON This program opens with US President George Bush's famous September 20 warning that justified Washington's war on Afghanistan: "Either you are with us or you are

National protest against abuse of refugees

BY STUART MUNCKTON CANBERRA — With the Coalition government on the back foot over its refugee policies, activists from around Australia are planning to converge on Parliament House on February 12 to call for a more humane refugee policy. February

Rallies to free the refugees

BY ROB MILLER MELBOURNE — More than 500 people attended a protest called by the Refugee Action Collective (RAC) outside the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs on January 24. Many city workers attended the lunchtime rally to

Victory for anti-racists in NT

BY GARY MEYERHOFF DARWIN — The Northern Territory's draconian Public Order and Anti-Social Conduct Act may soon be repealed by the NT Labor government. Pippa Rudd, spokesperson for NT Attorney-General Peter Toyne, told Green Left Weekly on

Refugees' freedom protest gains support

BY SARAH STEPHEN Guards daily tell detained asylum seekers to return to their countries and try to screen phone calls to prevent detainees speaking to the media. Asylum seekers who had stitches forcibly removed from their lips reinserted them. An

NEPAL: US offers military support

BY NORM DIXON The United States has offered to spread its "war on terrorism" to Nepal. A US official told Associated Press on January 19 that during a visit to the Himalayan kingdom US Secretary of State Colin Powell had offered increased US

CHOGM protests launched

Got everything he wished for "But all in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me." — George the Crusader, speaking on new year's eve. Bushonomics "The first condition to make sure that people can find work is to make sure our nation

UNITED STATES: Mumia tries to get new evidence heard

BY MONICA MOOREHEAD A legal appeal on behalf of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther activist who was framed for murder, was filed for the third time with the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court on January 9. The appeal asks that the Supreme

Corporate scumbag: Lakes Creek CMG

On January 12 Lakes Creek Consolidated Meat Group (CMG), owned by Kerry Packer, broke the news to Rockhampton 1350 meatworkers that it was closing its doors and they no longer had jobs. Lakes Creek CMG management claims the plant's closure is due