BY PETER ROBSON& JIM MCILROY
"The US war on Afghanistan provided no solution to the problems of the region", Farooq Tariq, general secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, told a lunchtime meeting at Newcastle University on April 3, as he began a
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BY VITTORIO LONGHI
ROME — Italy is getting ready for a massive general strike, the first for 20 years, against Silvio Berlusconi government's labour law "reform". On April 16, at least 11 million workers will strike.
This general strike call
Stupid White Men
By Michael Moore
Harper Collins 2002
275 pages, $49.45
REVIEW BY PAUL HEMPHILL
If your name is Miranda Devine, you won't like this book because
it slanders your beloved American Dream. If you are Greg Sheridan, you
Alabi Ayinde is in a coma in a Lagos hospital in Nigeria after being brutally deported from Ireland. As far as is known, all Ayinde's injuries were inflicted by Irish immigration guards.
On March 28, Ayinde and five other Nigerians were put on a
BY ALISON DELLIT
The federal Coalition government does not let itself be deterred from carrying through a policy just because it is disastrous. Just a few weeks after aviation privatisation claimed as its victims the jobs of 14,000 Ansett workers,
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — The promised attack on Iraq will test free journalism as never before. The prevailing media orthodoxy is that the attack is only a matter of time. "The arguments may already be over", says the March 17 Observer, "Bush and
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY More than 8000 people rallied in Sydney's Town Hall Square
on April 6 to demand an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Protesters carrying placards, banners and Palestinian flags poured out
of the square
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA — Auxiliary Catholic Bishop Pat Power and Anglican Bishop of Canberra and Goulbourn George Browning issued a statement on April 1 condemning the Israeli assault on the Palestinian people.
"At a time when Christians
BY JIM GREEN
SYDNEY The head of the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear
Safety Agency (ARPANSA), John Loy, approved construction of a new 20-megawatt
nuclear reactor in the southern suburb of Lucas Heights on April 5.
ARPANSA
BY ARUN PRADHAN
"Since the protest there has been close to no communication with Woomera [detention centre] inmates", refugees' rights campaigner Pamela Curr told Green Left Weekly on April 6. "The two phone lines normally available to detainees
Sexism and anorexia
I want to be thin. I want my cheeks to sink and my bones to stick out.
I want my skin to sit over my bones like cling-wrap on clay, mimicking
every shape. I want to be thinnest... And I want it now.
I wrote
Palestine I
David Murray (Write On, GLW #485) writes, The methods of the Palestinian
terrorists, whose only desire is to have all Jewish people thrown into
the Mediterranean, is a dead end which socialists everywhere should clearly
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