BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
On September 9, five suspected illegal-immigrant workers at the De Lorenzo ceramics factory in Sydney's west were detained following a raid by immigration department officials. The NSW branch of the construction & general division
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BY EVA CHENG
The month-long, four-phase election in the Indian-held section of
Kashmir (IHK) was completed on October 8. The result ended the National
Conference (NC) party's half-century near monopoly of political power in
the IHK.
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Four years ago, Colombian dissident Alvaro Morales fled to Argentina and then to Australia to escape death threats from Colombian government-backed paramilitaries. In May, following the Refu gee Review Tribunal's (RRT) rejection of
HOBART Activists
had wondered if the terrorist attack in Bali would dampen the spirits of
the fourth in a series of weekly vigils against the war on Iraq that have
attracted up to 100 people. On October 18, the conclusion was that it hadn't.
BY DALE T. MCKINLEY
JOHANNESBURG Be afraid. Be very afraid. Lurking beneath the surface of an evidently otherwise contented and patriotic South African society, there lies a "new" enemy of the state and the people.
According to those in the
Selective mourning diminishes our humanity
October 12 is a date that Australians will mark as a day of tragedy
for years to come. But last week also marked the anniversary of another
tragedy: it was a year since the sinking of an
East Timorese refugees
The GLW #511 editorial "Let Timorese stay!" is spot on. Many of us remember the almost sadistic trap the East Timorese refugees were deliberately caught in when they arrived after 1991. Before the Dili massacre there was no
BY PETER ROBSON
Only one year
ago yesterday, we too lost our brothers and sisters to the violence and
injustice that stalks humanity right across the globe, refugees' rights
activist Kathy Newnam told people gathered in Newcastle's Civic
The latest in a series of Socialist Alliance-initiated Sydney suburban rallies against war on Iraq took place in Newtown on October 18. The rally was addressed by Socialist Alliance candidates for Marrickville (Sue Johnson) and Port Jackson (Paul
BY SUSAN AUSTIN
CAIRNS Non-nursing health unions have agreed to the enterprise bargaining agreement offered by the Queensland health department which involves a pay rise of 3.5% per annum, back-paid to June 1, and retention of many of the
BY JAMES BALOWSKI
The brutal murder of nearly 200 people in Indonesia's tourist resort of Kuta on the island of Bali on October 12 occurred as the US is attempting to pressure Jakarta into supporting its War on Terror. As part of this effort,
BY STUART MUNCKTON
Political tensions in Venezuela continue to rise. On October 10, there was a mass mobilisation of middle- and upper-class opponents of President Hugo Chavez in the capital Caracas. This was followed three days later by an even
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