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BY DR LYNETTE DUMBLE In late July, New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report entitled Killing you is a very easy thing for us, a 101-page documentation of the chief forms of abuse prevalent today in Kabul and the densely populated
A conference of the National Council for Single Mothers and their Children (NCSMC) was held at Trades Hall in Melbourne on July 25-26. At the time that the NCSMC was formed in the early 1970s, unmarried mothers were perceived to be a threat to the
BY TIM GOODEN GEELONG — Unionists have rallied together to support 100 workers from Geelong Wool Combing who have been locked out for 13 weeks, fearing that such employer tactics are becoming more common. The first lockout notices were issued on
BY PAMELA CURR Immigration law and family law have collided. In a landmark ruling on June 19, the Family Court found that it had jurisdiction over children held in immigration detention, and could make a ruling to release them if it was deemed
BY JAMES CRAFTI MELBOURNE — On July 8, the Sydney University Senate met in secret to vote to support the federal government's "reforms" to higher education. When rumours circulated that the La Trobe University Council was to do the same, members
BY EVA CHENG Bilateral trade conflicts between the world's two biggest economic blocs — the US and the European Union — are escalating, threatening to undermine their collective ability to screw the Third World, especially within the framework
PalestineBy Joe SaccoJonathon Cape, 2003286 pages, $45 (pb) REVIEW BY NICK FREDMAN A work dealing with the politics of Palestine, in the form of a comic book, might seem an incongruent, even flippant, exercise. How can the immense human
BY NORM DIXON On July 31, Israel's Knesset (parliament) overwhelmingly passed an apartheid-like marriage law. The law forbids Palestinians who marry Israeli citizens from obtaining Israeli citizenship or permits to live with their spouses and
BY STUART MARTIN MELBOURNE — After five months on strike, the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) maintenance workers at Smorgon Steel in Laverton are still fighting to win the 36-hour work week and better pay and working conditions. Despite the
[The following statement was unanimously adopted by the Socialist Alliance's national executive on July 25.] The Socialist Alliance national executive joins its voice with those calling for unity in the anti-war movement. As the Bush administration
BY STEVE KRETZMANN& JIM VALLETTE In early April, during the initial assault on Baghdad, soldiers set up forward bases named Camp Shell and Camp Exxon, until Pentagon PR realised that that did not look very good and ordered them renamed. Those
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