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Socialist Alliance stands for Moreland council MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance will stand two candidates in the Moreland City Council elections on March 16. Jonathan Sherlock will contest Hoffman ward, where he received 4.7% of the vote in a
BY ROHAN PEARCE No-one predicted the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. However, it was predictable that the wealthy elite in the First World would attempt to use those drastic events to find a way to derail the growing revolt
Black Hawk Down: Hollywood joins Bush's war Black Hawk DownDirected by Ridley ScottWritten by Ken Nolan, based on the book by Mark BowdenStarring Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor and Tom Sizemore REVIEW BY STUART EASTERLING Black Hawk Down is a war
The movement against corporate globalisation is anything but dead: December 13-14, Brussels, Belgium: European Trade Union Confederation mobilises 100,000 trade unionists; global justice demonstration of 25,000; December 19, Argentina: Mass
BY JENNY LONG SYDNEY — Around 90 Labor Party and union members gathered on January 22 to hold the first organising meeting of a Labor for Refugees group. Secretary of the NSW Labor Council John Robertson announced the group's formation in
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
BY MAX LANE The Australia Indonesia Institute (AII) is advertised as a body promoting people-to-people relations between Australia and Indonesia. Its real role in defending the political status quo in Indonesia and Australia has been revealed by a
BY ALISON DELLIT A young Australian is forcibly captured by a foreign power. He is tortured, denied legal representation and detained indefinitely without trial — despite not being accused of any crime. Far from protesting, the Australian
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

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