The New Labour government headed by PM Gordon Brown sank deeper into crisis after it lost the Crewe and Nantwich by-election occasioned by the death of the sitting MP Gwyneth Dunwoody to the Conservatives on May 22.
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The federal government’s intervention into remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory has largely failed to produce significant improvements in health or housing, an NT health department employee told Green Left Weekly on May 29.
Twenty-six years ago, Pol Brennan was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner in the infamous H-Blocks of Long Kesh prison, watching his friends die on hunger strike. Today, he is in solitary confinement in a Texas immigration holding centre.
The anti-war movement must step up its campaign for the immediate withdrawal of all troops from Afghanistan.
Breaking the Silence is an organisation of veteran Israeli soldiers that collects testimonies from soldiers who have served in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since the start of the Second Intifada in September 2000. A number of these testimonies are posted on its website, http://breakingthesilence.org.il.
The recent revelation that Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley — the Queensland policeman who admitted in court that he caused the death of Aboriginal man Mulrunji (Cameron Doomadgee) on Palm Island in November 2004 — received a “compensation” payment of $100,000 from the Queensland Police Service for alleged loss of personal property during the fire that followed, is a major public scandal.
It is an almost unquestioned orthodoxy that the only way there could be a peaceful solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict is through the creation of two separate states.
After a year of stellar successes, almost 600 delegates from Germanys new left-wing party, Die Linke, came together for the partys first ever congress, held in the east German city of Cottbus on May 25 and 26.
On April 28, an Australian soldier died in Afghanistan the fifth since the US-led invasion in October 2001. He was part of an international invasion force to impose a colonial occupation on the Afghan people.
On May 28, Nepal entered a new era when the constituent assembly in its first meeting since the April 10 elections overwhelming voted to abolish the 240-year-old monarchy and declare Nepal a democratic republic.
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