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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 SARAH STEPHEN
On May 19, ABC television's Four Corners program presented a damning expose of the horrors that went on behind the razor wire of the Woomera immigration detention centre before its closure in mid-April.
In the first half of 2000,
GLW #537 reported on a motion passed at the May 10-11 Socialist Alliance national conference. Regrettably, the final section of the motion was omitted. This is the full motion as passed:
"Conference endorses these eight points:
"1. We want the
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 CHRIS SLEE& GEOFF SPENCER
MELBOURNE — Strikes and lockouts continue at a number of Melbourne factories as members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union campaign for new enterprise agreements which include a 36-hour work week.
After
BY DALE T. McKINLEY
JOHANNESBURG — Two years ago I sat with veteran African National Congress leader Walter Sisulu in his modest Johannesburg home to talk about his days as a youthful ANC leader in the 1940s and 1950s. Although I had briefly met
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
When Laci Peterson's mutilated body washed up on a California shore on April 13, Americans were shocked and appalled. Cries for justice were greeted with the swift arrest of her husband Scott, who was charged with her murder — and with the "murder"
BY GRANT COLEMAN
In his May 13 budget speech, treasurer Peter Costello announced a 10-year package of reforms to Australia's higher education system, Our Universities: Backing Australia's Future. This package, the end result of the 12-month Higher
BY ROBERTO BARRETO
PUERTO RICO — The people of Vieques have won an important victory over the US Navy. After six decades of struggle — including mass mobilisations and mass civil disobedience actions over the past four years — the navy was
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