As Olympic officials descended on Paris on March 10 to inspect the city's potential as a games host, a general strike shut much of the country, including subways, airports, schools, bus networks, radio stations and post offices, across 55 cities and
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On February 23, Indonesian painter and activist Semsar Siahaan passed away as a result of a heart attack. Siahaan was the foremost artist of the progressive movement in Indonesia and had visited Australia more than once, including to attend the
On March 12, the House of Lords passed new terror laws that allow for the imposition of house arrest, electronic tagging and curfews on people who have not been charged with any crime. In its first draft, which was massively defeated on March 5 by
Roger Burbach
The February 12 murder of Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old nun who helped peasants engage in sustainable agriculture in the Amazonian rainforest, came as oligarchic interests and the parliamentary right are on a political offensive
More than 300 staff of the University of Papua New Guinea have been on strike since March 7 on strike demanding the resignation of the vice-chancellor and three other senior management officials. The university's two staff associations claim that the
The US rulers have constructed many false pretexts and downright lies to justify their invasions, occupations and exploitation of other nations. In the Middle East, the "liberation of women" has been a common rationale in Washington's effort to win
Tim Anderson
Minor objections to the official US line can lend a semblance
of independent credibility to Australian commentaries, in the current
climate of global war. Such is the case with Paul McGeough's recent
caricature of Cuba
Sarah Stephen
On the same day as the immigration department made news headlines around the world for threatening to deport 104-year-old Chinese woman Cui Yu Hu, the corporate media ignored news of a case of grotesque medical negligence.
Greens
Neoliberal success story I
"Most Latin American countries adopted far-reaching economic-overhaul agendas during the 1990s. These included selling off state-owned enterprises, sharply reducing tariffs, battling inflation with debt reduction and
Iraq
Dominant propaganda broadcasts the social myth that "our boys are just doing a job" in Iraq. Such language sanitizes, deodorises and legitimises Australia's armed "liberation" taskforce. When our "checkpoint" soldiers shoot and wound a woman
REVIEW BY JIM MCILROY
"Old men send young men to die", is one of the stated themes of the riveting exhibition of photographs by veteran British photojournalist Tim Page, now resident in Australia, held in the Brisbane Powerhouse during February
Roberto Jorquera,
Santiago
On March 6, Chilean Communist Party president
Gladys Marin died at the age of 63 after a 18-month battle
with cancer. As soon as her death was made public at 6am, many
people began to gather outside her house
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