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BY KAREN FLETCHER The manipulation of immigration policy has been one of the key strategies used by the US rulers in their 44-year campaign to strangle Cuba's attempt to build socialism. Bolstered by its "victory" in Iraq, Washington is now
BY JOHN GAUCI SYDNEY — On May 3, 30 people picketed the Manly office of federal MP Tony Abbott to protest against the Howard government's May 13 war budget. Socialist Alliance speaker Anne Picot explained that the Howard government has set
SYDNEY — On May 7, activists from Fair Wear, an organisation dedicated to stopping the exploitation of home-based outworkers, held their own exhibition, "The clothes she wears" at Circular Quay, opposite the Museum of Contemporary Art. "Fashions
Korea — the Unknown War: an Illustrated HistoryBy Jon Halliday and Bruce CumingsPenguin Books, 1990 REVIEWED BY CHRIS SLEE The 1950-53 Korean War of was one of the bloodiest in history. Between 3 million and 4 million Koreans were killed, out
BY DOUG LORIMER Addressing 1 million people in Havana's Jose Mart¡ Revolution Square on May Day, Cuban President Fidel Castro warned that the US government was seeking to provoke a crisis with Cuba that Washington could use to launch an Iraq-style
BY ALISON DELLIT At the 1998 constitutional convention, which debated whether or not Australia should become a republic, then-Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane Peter Hollingworth spoke in favour of the minimalist republic model that was subsequently
BY ALISON DELLIT "The massive number of young people who had the confidence to walk out of school, stand up to their teachers and protest against the war on Iraq was amazing", Kylie Moon told Green Left Weekly. A leader of the student anti-war
BY DALE MILLS Britain's top cop has found that the country's security forces passed intelligence to loyalist terrorists in Northern Ireland, which allowed them to kill republicans. This had long been suspected by republican activists, but this is
BY DOUG LORIMER SYDNEY — On May 8, NSW Greens MP Lee Rhiannon criticised NSW Labor Premier Bob Carr for his insistence that the state's parliamentarians vote on age of consent laws according to their personal views, rather than their party's
BY DOUG LORIMER Renowned Australian journalist and film-maker John Pilger has been awarded the 2003 Sophie Prize, one of the world's most generous environment and development prizes, for his work in helping the public to examine the real causes of

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