Jola Jones
On December 2, immigration minister Amanda Vanstone handed down her decision on the future of the 41 Iraqi asylum seekers detained on Nauru. She announced that 27 Iraqis would be given refugee status and said this reflected the
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Malik Miah, San Francisco
Today four of the top 10 US airlines — United Airlines (UAL), US Airways, ATA and Hawaiian Airlines — are operating under chapter 11 of the US bankruptcy law, which allows corporations to seek protection from creditors
Peter Maybarduk, Caracas
It is nearly impossible to travel in Venezuela without hearing reference to the government's highly popular and controversial health-care initiative that invites Cuban doctors to treat, train and live with working-class
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REVIEWED BY KATELYN MOUNTFORD
The women of Venezuela are fighting
Australian Manufacturing Workers Union food and confectionary division Victorian secretary Bronwyn Halfpenny spoke to Green Left Weekly's Sue Bolton about the changes that jailed unionist Craig Johnston brought to the Victorian AMWU branch after he
Your beak is the needle,The thread is your song,And you mend the torn air,When the madness is gone,And the harmonies old, of the bushland unfold,When you mend the torn air with your song.
And when harmony reignedIn the forest of green,And no
Peter Boyle
Ern O'Malley is the pen name used by Nige Edwards when he writes a satirical column called "Smoko" for the Online Opinion website. The pen name is a reference to the celebrated hoax of 1944, when a collection of writings from a
On December 6, Oxfam released a report showing that 45 million children will die, and another 97 million will be unable to go to school, because of poverty that could be eliminated if the seven most industrialized countries fulfilled their 1970
Kim Bullimore, West Bank
Palestinian presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouti was beaten by Israeli occupation forces as he toured the West Bank as part of his election campaign.
Barghouti, a leading democracy and civil rights advocate and
The following is a letter to the Cuban Five, who were charged with espionage and sentenced to long jail terms in the US.
My name is Craig Johnston. I am in prison in Australia for crimes against the capitalist state. Myself and 16 other trade
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