BY LYNETTE DUMBLE MELBOURNE Tahmeena Faryal from the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), and Surma Hamid from the Committee in Defence of Iraqi Women's Rights (CDIWR), will speak at a public forum at Trades Hall on
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BY GRAHAM WILLIAMS MELBOURNE More than 700 workers mobilised on July 3 at Footscray's Whitten Oval, as part of a campaign to win a new enterprise bargaining agreement across the Victorian manufacturing industry. This round of pattern
BY EVA CHENG
Between 500,000 and 700,000 people flooded the streets of Hong Kong on July 1, in an angry protest against the scheduled finalisation of an anti-subversion law on July 9.
The Hong Kong government pressed ahead with the legislation,
The Indonesian government has an almost "pathological hostility to separatism", Dr Ed Aspinall, lecturer in South-East Asian Studies at Sydney University, told a forum on July 2.
BY KEIRAN LATTY
Danny Fairfax's article "profiting from death" (GLW #543) rightly highlights the relationship between arms spending and the economy, but the picture is more complex than he paints.
In the past, military expenditure and war have
BY DALE MILLS
The European Commission for Human Rights, Europe's senior human rights court, ruled in a judgment delivered on July 1 that the British investigation into the murder of civil rights solicitor Patrick Finucane was flawed.
Finucane was
BY PAUL BENEDEK SYDNEY Six police officers prevented film reviewer Margaret Pomeranz, journalist David Marr and others from playing a DVD of the US film Ken Park to a packed out Balmain Town Hall audience of 400 adults on July 3. Ken Park was
BY DUNCAN MEERDING & ALBY DALLAS HOBART A public forum on health and education was attended by 50 people on July 2. Held at the Republic Bar, a popular left-wing pub, the meeting was organised by the Socialist Alliance. The participants
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"Australia is not a neo-colonial power and we are sensitive to the regional concerns about our role." Foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer, June 26, justifying the deployment of 1500 Australian troops to the Solomon Islands
BY DOUG LORIMER
Claiming that Iran has a secret nuclear weapons program, US government officials have pressured Japan to abandon the development of a huge oil project there. According to a report in the July 2 edition of the Tokyo daily Mainichi
BY ROLANDO PEREZ BETANCOURT
HAVANA Without ceremony from those who, during the Cold War, exalted him as if he were a god of letters, Englishman George Orwell reaches his 100th birthday. Orwell was the great critic of the Soviet state and of
BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
MELBOURNE Filipino parliamentarian Satur Ocampo from the Bayan Muna (People's First) party described the US war on the Philippines at a public meeting held at Trades Hall on June 30.
Ocampo is one of three Bayan Muna
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