Dale T. McKinley, Johannesburg The alliance is dead! Long live the alliance! That about sums up the politics of the organisational marriage between the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of
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Following the 30,000-strong protests around Australia on July 22 against Israel's bombing of Lebanon and Gaza, anti-war actions continued last week, with plans for more during the next fortnight. Linda Seaborn reports from Hobart that 40 people
Emma Clancy, Sydney Rotem Mor is a young Israeli refusenik (conscripts who refuse to serve in the military to protest the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza) who is currently on a speaking tour around Australia. On July 9, he addressed the 35th
NEWCASTLE — On July 21, 70 truck drivers protested outside the Coles store in the NSW Central Coast town of Wyoming after being left with no job security by Coles-Myer and the Linfox trucking company following the closure of the nearby Coles-Myer
Kim Bullimore While most world attention has focused on the brutal Israeli attack on Lebanon, Israeli occupation forces have continued to their month-long assault on the Gaza Strip. Since June 28, Israeli occupation forces have carried out more than
J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American CenturyBy David C. CassidyPi Press, 2005462 pages, $39.95 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON J. Robert Oppenheimer built the atomic bomb. Awestruck by the power of its test bombing at Alamogordo in the New Mexico
In a July 29 media release, the refugee rights group Project SafeCom condemned the immigration department's decision to order a sick nine-year-old Afghan boy living in community detention in Brisbane to be relocated to the detention facility on
Graham Matthews An academic appointed to advise the Australian (un)Fair Pay Commission (AFPC) on the link between wages and unemployment has called for the minimum wage to be frozen. According to Professor Phil Lewis in the July 22 Australian, there
Protests were held in some 30 of Nepal's 75 districts on July 26, organised by the Citizens Movement for Democracy and Peace, an umbrella body of non-party organisations. The protest in the capital, Kathmandu, reportedly attracted 2000-3000.
In February, supporters of women's right to choose abortion succeeded in removing the abortion drug RU486 from politicians' control — including Christian fundamentalist health minister Tony Abbott — and giving it back to the medical
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