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Target companies ripping off Iraq, says Arundhati Roy

Lachlan Malloch, Sydney Indian writer and anti-globalisation campaigner Arundhati Roy exhorted a packed Seymour Centre audience on the evening of November 3 to bring home the resistance to the US-led occupation of Iraq by boycotting the products of

CHILE: Left success in municipal elections

Jorge Jorquera An alliance of the left, principally made up of the Communist Party of Chile and the Humanist Party, the main Green party in Chile, managed 9.14% of the vote in the October 31 municipal elections. This is the highest left vote since

Staff and students rally for child care

Michelle Brear, Sydney The world's biggest teddy bear joined staff, students and kids at a 150-strong rally on November 11 at the University of New South Wales to demand that the university urgently act on the enormous childcare waiting lists at

ASIO Bills

*Don't speak of rights, justice or oughtswe have castrated judges in neutered courts.The only things they guarantee are silence,lying politicians and ASIO's compliance.In nondescript brick veneered suburbsfearful, frightened half lives ledby the

Prison letter from Craig Johnston

I understand the Skilled Six Committee and a number of unions have decided to call a rally for November 25 around the call to free myself and highlight the injustice of my jailing. For this I thank everyone involved. However, I would like to

INDONESIA: Yudhoyono under pressure to end Aceh war

James Balowski, Jakarta The new government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono faces a staggering array of problems — rampant corruption, continuing human rights abuses by the military, massive unemployment, crumbling infrastructure, and a

Greens will be 'conscience of the Senate'

Green Left Weekly's Chris Latham spoke to newly elected Greens senator from Western Australia Rachel Siewert about the Greens' increased vote and role now that the Coalition will control both houses of federal parliament from July 1 next year. The

OUR COMMON CAUSE: An appeal to Socialist Alliance members

A famous thinker once wrote that in modern industrial society, individuals are more than ever dependent upon society for their "food, clothing, a home, the tools of work, language, the forms of thought, and most of the content of thought". Far from

John Howard killed, Australia fights on

Damien Lawson John Howard was killed in Iraq two months ago. A 26-year old staff sergeant in the marines, he died when his helicopter crashed in Al-Anbar province in August. The youngest of three brothers from Virginia, he joined the marines in

The kind of journalism we need

REVIEW BY AUSTIN WHITTEN Tell Me No Lies — Investigative Journalism And its TriumphsEdited by John PilgerJonathan Cape, 2004626 pages, $35 (tpb) In the introduction to his eminently readable new book, John Pilger states that he wanted to honour

Protests demand US troops leave Iraq

Rohan Pearce Many liberal commentators have spent their time since the November 2 US presidential election bemoaning the "stupidity" of US people for "re"-electing President George Bush, instead of voting for John Kerry, the alternative pro-war

Forming a 'chain of opposition'

Duroyan Fertl & Bill Mason Emergency actions took place in five Australian cities in opposition to the US-led carnage in Fallujah. More than 200 people braved the rain and wind to protest in Sydney, in an action organised at short notice by the