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As reported in Green Left Weekly #536, on May 1, 160 intellectuals and artists — including Nobel Prize winners Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rigoberta Menchu, Aldolfo Perez Esquivel and Nadine Gordimer — launched an
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BY SUE BOLTON
Usually, when federal minister for union-bashing Tony Abbott wants to introduce new legislation, he likes to boast. The problem with this, however, is that it allows opposition to his attacks to build up, pressuring senators to reject
SYDNEY — On May 19, two dozen activists, most members of the UTS queer group, gathered outside the Queen Victoria Building to call for the NSW parliament to pass a bill that would equalise the age of consent for gay and heterosexual sex. The bill
BY BUSTER SOUTHERLY
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — On May 13 at the Rio Rancho High School — where, in response to the performance of an anti-war poem, the school's poetry club was disbanded and student poets were "investigated" and their poems
BY COKRO HAMID
JAKARTA — As Indonesian troops launched a full-scale military offensive in Aceh, there have been protests in other parts of Indonesia, especially Jakarta.
Protest and solidarity actions have been organised by the Solidarity
BY DOUG LORIMER
On May 22, the United Nations Security Council adopted a US-sponsored resolution which approved the Anglo-American military occupation of Iraq, lifted UN economic sanctions imposed in August 1990 and put revenue from sales of Iraqi
BY ROHAN PEARCE
On May 19, tens of thousands of Iraqis took to the streets of Baghdad. They chanted, "We will not sell this country", and demanded that the US military end its occupation of the country.
It was the latest sign that Washington's
BY RAY FULCHER
MELBOURNE — In a handout to the insurance companies, Victorian Premier Steve Bracks' Labor government has introduced new laws restricting the right to sue for personal injuries.
Under the new Wrongs and Limitations of Actions Act
BY JEFF SHANTZ
TORONTO — The Ontario provincial government has suffered a serious setback in its attempts to criminalise resistance to its neoliberal policies.
After four gruelling months, the court case against three anti-poverty organisers of
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — Rank-and-file militants in Members First have done well in the Community and Public Sector Union national office election. The results indicate that large numbers of public sector workers do want a union that once
BY LOUISE WALKER
Ever since the federal government announced the higher education budget for 2003, a war of words has raged across the mass media. The rhetoric is set to heighten over the coming months.
That's because the government has made it
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