The dullest of records were
old Factory Reports bound, called Blue
Books. List of figures, translations of workers'
lives tossed about in debate
and later boredom. Members
of Parliament used these for target
practice (the force of
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[The following is a slightly abridged version of a speech given by
Sarah Stephen, a member of the Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific
brigade to East Timor, at a protest organised by a number of East Timorese
groups in Dili on
BY ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE After 164 years of dispossession and colonisation, Yorta
Yorta people have entered a new chapter of their long search for justice
and land rights. On May 23, the High Court heard an appeal by the Yorta
Yorta
BY SEAN HEALY
Out of sight of the world, a humanitarian crisis of enormous proportions
is unfolding in Angola, as perhaps hundreds of thousands of people flee
the grey zones, the 90% of the country which have until now been closed
to
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — In his first few weeks as prime minister, Tony Blair made a number of symbolic gestures. One of them was to visit the Aylesbury estate in South London, where the poor lived.
The stairs of the rough-cast concrete estate
BY LYNDA HANSEN & JULIE WEBB-PULLMAN
BRISBANE — Latin American solidarity activists here have combined forces to launch a campaign to free five Cubans imprisoned in the United States on espionage charges.
The "Miami Five", as they have come to
BY MATTHEW RICH & KYLIE MOON
MELBOURNE — In a victory for democracy in the student movement, activists at the University of Melbourne have quashed attempts from the ALP-controlled Melbourne University Student Union Incorporated (MUSUi) to evict
BY TERRICA STRUDWICK
ROCKHAMPTON — On May 23 employees at Consolidated Meat Group's Lakes Creek plant called a 24-hour work stoppage. As from May 24, the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) members at the plant will cease doing
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Construction and maintenance workers employed by the Queensland government public works corporation Q-Build marched through city streets on May 21 to protest low wages and inequities in superannuation and working
Frustration
"It's a frustrating war. The reason it's so frustrating and aggravating is because the enemy is not fighting." — US Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Fetterman in Afghanistan, quoted in the May 16 Washington Post.
Deja vu
"We're trying
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