Manufacturing Workers Union, firefighters, maritime unions, Graham Matthews, Communist Party of Australia, the Socialist Alliance, Treasury Gardens, Nikki Ulasowski, Unions WA, Fremantle, peace and justice, Wollongong's May Day march, Jim Tannoch,
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Blaming the victim I
"As Israeli forces pursued militants, civilians continued getting in the way and dying as a result." — New York Times report, April 21.
Blaming the victim II
"The trouble is that we are facing a Palestinian leadership
The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), a network of more than 200 non-government organisations, has attacked Israel's refusal to allow United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan's fact-finding mission to the ravaged West Bank refugee camp of
Museworthy: Smile (Affirmative Action)
I was a tooth on an adAnything brightAnd white white white
For the audition they saidShow us what you can doAnd I sat rooted to the spotLooking as much like a toothAs I could
There was a black woman
MALAYSIA: May Day gathering terrorised by
police
KUALA LUMPUR What was to be a peaceful gathering of progressive
workers and social justice activists on May 1 at Kuala Lumpur City Centre
(KLCC Twin Towers) turned into mayhem when
Astonishing! I am becomea communist, a leftie, a red-ragger, revolutionary
surely not! Che, that handsomehero on the wall is one ofthose — not me?Yet I want a socialism
that's funa green onewith no national flag. No more
false grim imagesof
The rise and fall of the Pankhursts
The Pankhursts
By Martin Pugh
Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 2001
537 pages, $49.95 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
What foul crimes did this family commit? Emmeline and her daughters
Christabel,
BY NEW YORK TRANSFER
NEWS COLLECTIVE
NEW YORK The administration of US President George Bush lumped
Cuba into its war on terrorism on May 6 placing the country on a second-tier
axis of evil list with Syria and Libya.
The US
BY TIM ANDERSON
The "war on terrorism" is the big lie of the 21st century. It has nothing to do with a civil defence against people who fly planes into buildings. Before September 11, there were already laws against that in almost every country on
BY BUSTER SOUTHERLY
ABC TV's Media Watch on May 6 revealed that the Melbourne Age refused to publish a cartoon drawn by Michael Leunig that was critical of Israel's war against the Palestinians.
The first panel of the cartoon shows a Jewish