Leslie Feinberg, New York
The Pentagon war to annex Iraq as a profitable region of US capital's empire is still raging, long after the fragile pretexts for invasion have torn like tissue. The sheer brutality and colonial-style character of the
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1984: Homosexuality is decriminalised in NSW.
June 11
1872: Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
1981: IRA political prisoner Kieran Doherty is elected as an Irish MP while on hunger strike.
June 12
1964: Nelson Mandela is
MELBOURNE — The federal government's terrorism charges against Jack Thomas are aimed at making him a "scapegoat to cover up their own evil deeds", Tim Anderson told a public meeting on June 2.
Anderson, who spent eight years in prison, wrongly
On May 31, Ken Good, an Australian professor working at Botswana University, lost his appeal against deportation. Good has been a fierce critic of the lack of democracy in Botswana and of the government's policy of forcibly relocating Bushmen from
CANBERRA — A discussion paper released by ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope paves the way for formal recognition of same-sex unions in the ACT.
The paper encourages submissions from the community to ascertain which of three models — marriage,
James Vassilopoulos
Seventy-two per cent of workers are not taken in by the federal Coalition government's argument that exempting companies with less than 100 employees from unfair dismissal laws will create jobs.
An ACTU-commissioned survey
Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and SeventiesBy Jeremy VaronUniversity of California Press, 2004394 pages, $44 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
"Bringing the war home" was
David Glanz is a Socialist Alliance national co-convenor and a leading member of the International Socialist Organisation, one of the founding affiliates of the alliance.
What do you consider to be the major gains of the Socialist Alliance project
REVIEW BY DAVE RILEY
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass DestructionBy Sue TownsendMichael Joseph/Penguin, 2004460pages, $35
Adrian Mole is no longer thirteen-and-three-quarters, but he still keeps his diary. Adrian Mole is in fact 34 years old,
Louise Walker is a national co-convener of the Socialist Alliance who is not a member of any of the organisations affiliated to the alliance.
What do you consider to be the major gains of the Socialist Alliance so far?
The Socialist Alliance has
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