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BY JEFF SHANTZ TORONTO — Sunkmanitu Tanka Isnala Najin, or Wolf Smoke, is an Indigenous person of Mohawk, Lakota and Seneca heritage. His tireless defence of Indigenous people's rights in North America has brought down the wrath of the Canadian
BY ALISON DELLIT On December 5, ALP federal parliamentarian Carmen Lawrence announced her resignation from the party's shadow cabinet in protest at Labor's new policy on refugees and asylum seekers. In a blistering 20-minute statement, Lawrence
BY JUDY DAVIS I remember my horror the day in 1991 that the US military attacked the retreating Iraqi army on the road from Kuwait to Basra in Iraq. The war had been won, Saddam Hussein had announced a complete troop withdrawal from Kuwait in
BY DOUG LORIMER DELHI — “Red resistance to saffron subversion” was the central theme of the seventh congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) held November 25-30 in the city of Patna, capital of Bihar state, in
COMMENT BY MICK BULL The position of the Victorian branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) on the question of “illegal” labour is rather simple in comparison to some of the other branches of the union.
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — Two floats in the November 30 Launceston Christmas parade have sparked a string of letters in the Examiner, the town's daily tabloid. The Peace on Earth float was entered by a coalition of No War on Iraq,
MANILA — Some 20,000 militant workers, together with the urban poor and student youth, celebrated National Heroes Day on November 30 with a vow to “continue Gat Andres Bonifacio's struggle by resisting imperialist globalisation and war”.
BY EVA CHENG In November, Bangkok-based Focus on the Global South launched a useful 60-page expose of the dirty tricks that rich countries use to get their way within the World Trade Organisation. Power Politics of the WTO is based on extensive
BY CHRIS LATHAM PERTH - On December 8, more than 1000 people rallied in Perth to oppose the impending war in Iraq. Organised by the NOWAR Alliance, the protest demanded: no war on Iraq; no Australian support for war; an end to sanctions on Iraq;
BY PETER BOYLE In real political terms the most important development in the November 30 Victorian election was the doubling of the Greens' vote — to 9.2% in the lower house and 10.3% in the upper house — and their beating the Liberals to win

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