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.
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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 ALISON DELLIT
Australian big business is beginning to get some of the benefits it expected from the war in Iraq, as Washington and US corporations start to scatter some crumbs. Prime Minister John Howard, the Australian wheat industry and one of
BY HERBERT DOCENA
JAKARTA — Organisers of the "Iraq and the Global Peace Movement: What Next?" conference, which will be held here on May 19-21, expect attendance by as many as 200 delegates from the broad anti-war coalitions that have emerged in
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
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 AHMAD NIMER
RAMALLAH — The public announcement of the US-backed "road map" a few days after the inauguration of Palestinian Prime Minister Abu Mazen's new cabinet has been met with vocal opposition from leading Palestinian political
Zionism I
Craig Milner (Write On, GLW #536) refutes my argument that "Zionism means belief in an exclusively Jewish state" by quoting the Zionist Congress of 1897: "The aim of Zionism is to create for the Jewish people a home in Eretz-Israel
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 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 SARAH STEPHEN
On April 25, Abu Quassey was deported from Indonesia to Egypt. Quassey had admitted his responsibility for helping to organise the fatal SIEV-X voyage, in which 353 asylum seekers died on October 19, 2001, while trying to reach
SYDNEY — About 300 people demonstrated in Chifley Square on May 8 to protest the Coalition government's attacks on Medicare.
The speakers included Wollongong Greens MP Michael Organ, Con Costa from the Doctor's Reform Society and Arthur
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