A November 18 statement from the United Nations drug office confirmed that Afghanistan's economy is now dominated by opium production, which jumped 64% in the last year and now accounts for more than 60% of GDP. UN official Antonio Maria Costa
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Former Victorian secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Craig Johnston was jailed on August 27 for 9 months for taking part in an industrial protest in defence of jobs. Former AMWU delegate Steev Mansour explains why he supports
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When I was in Australia, studying Green Left Weekly saw me through the days. If you come from a Third World country where politics is still decipherable and you end up in a First World" where politics is over-choreographed and full of
Tim Anderson
Hidden behind the rhetoric of "democracy" in the 458-page report titled "Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba", and underlying US President George Bush's regime's plan for a "transition" in the island nation, are all the major
Chasing the Sleeper Cell — They were dubbed "The Lackawanna Six" and they were US citizens accused of aiding al Qaeda after having personally met with Osama bin Laden. SBS, Sunday, November 28, 11am.
Living Answers — Aboriginal, Torres Strait
Fred Fuentes
The left-wing Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) made big gains in the Nicaraguan municipal elections held on November 7. Despite an overall increase in voter abstention from 38% to 44%, the FSLN's vote climbed from 618,821 in
The Secret Service payed a visit to Boulder High School on November 11, after it heard that students were planning a spoken word performance of Bob Dylan's "Masters of War" at the school's talent show the following night. The school's principal Ron
The following is abridged from an address by Sydney-based Afghan refugee Riz Wakil to the November 16 convergence at federal parliament in Canberra.
Thank you for coming here on the first sitting day of parliament to say: "It doesn't matter who won
Only a few thousand workers participated in the "indefinite" general strike called by the illegal Korean Government Employees Union that began on November 15. The union, which has 140,000 members, said that 45,000 had committed to join the strike to
Hundreds of people came together on November 16 to protest the installation of pre-paid water metres in Soweto and other townships. The protest was organised by a Coalition that included Anti-Privatisation Forum, Independent Baptists, Jubilee and the
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