BY
ALLEN MYERS
Dear Jose,
I am proud to have participated in conferences and solidarity demonstrations
with East Timor from the Indonesian invasion in December 1975 until the
withdrawal of Indonesian troops. Twelve years ago, when I edited
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BY SARAH
STEPHEN
Thousands of refugees' rights supporters from around the country
are set to converge over the Easter weekend on the Australian government's
latest concentration camp the Baxter detention centre, near Port Augusta
in South
Howard's dishonest case for war
Prime Minister John Howard's March 13 address to the National Press Club
clarified one thing the Australian people have no reason at all to support
a war on Iraq. In a speech littered with emotional
MANILA — More than 3000 women, led by Women Rage (Women's Resistance to Globalisation and to End War), protested outside the US embassy here on International Women's Day, March 8. The women demanded that the Philippines government address issues of
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — "In the face of a US-led war on Iraq and the looming World Trade Organisation meeting in Mexico in August, the Brisbane Social Forum wants to create an axis of hope — discussing how another world is possible", according
MELBOURNE — Scottish folk music legend Dick Gaughan will be performing at Trades Hall for one night only on March 25. His songs evoke a deep sympathy and respect for the working class, their struggles and their victories.
A professional musician
BY ROHAN PEARCE
US Secretary of State Colin Powell made headlines on March 9 when he announced that Iraq's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program — pilotless "drones" — were the ever-elusive "smoking gun" that proved Iraq was concealing banned
BY DANNY FAIRFAX
On February 15, 500,000 people converged on Berlin, and 50,000 in Stuttgart, to say "Keine lust auf krieg!" (We don't want war!). This is despite the fact that the federal Social Democratic Party (SPD)/Greens coalition government,
WELLINGTON Five
people were arrested at a 600-strong anti-war protest outside Parliament
House on March 10. The demonstrators mobilised to greet Australia's pro-war
Prime Minister John Howard as he arrived for a state luncheon hosted by
BY SARAH STEPHEN
In the past six years, there has been a rapid decline — from 80% to 70% — in the proportion of doctors who bulk-bill their patients, charging the government direct, rather than charging the patient a fee. If this rate of
BY
KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA On March 23-24, thousands of people will converge on parliament,
in a national protest against the Coalition governments support for an
attack on Iraq. Green Left Weekly spoke to James Vassilopoulos,
one of
Suddenly, and without justification, five Cuban political prisoners being held in US prisons were thrown into solitary confinement on March 3.
Prison authorities have not given the official reason for the illegal confinement in "the hole", but
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