On September 9, five suspected illegal-immigrant workers at the De Lorenzo ceramics factory in Sydney's west were detained following a raid by immigration department officials. The NSW branch of the construction & general division
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On February 4, 1998, doctors Victor Chan and Ho Peng Lee from the Nanyara abortion clinic were charged under Western Australia's criminal code with performing an abortion, and faced up to 14 years' jail. The shock move by WA
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The brutal murder of nearly 200 people in Indonesia's tourist resort of Kuta on the island of Bali on October 12 occurred as the US is attempting to pressure Jakarta into supporting its War on Terror. As part of this effort,
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[The following is an abridged version of a talk presented at a panel discussion on the Socialist Alliance at the 31st national conference of the socialist youth organisation Resistance, held in Melbourne, September 27-30. Simon
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JAKARTA — As of October 18, the Indonesian police investigating the terrorist bombing of the Sari night club on October 12 — which killed nearly 200 foreign tourists and Indonesian workers — have not announced any clear
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Four years ago, Colombian dissident Alvaro Morales fled to Argentina and then to Australia to escape death threats from Colombian government-backed paramilitaries. In May, following the Refu gee Review Tribunal's (RRT) rejection of
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Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. Includes the Green Left news. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Phone 9565 5522. Visit
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Selective mourning diminishes our humanity October 12 is a date that Australians will mark as a day of tragedy for years to come. But last week also marked the anniversary of another tragedy: it was a year since the sinking of an
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East Timorese refugees The GLW #511 editorial "Let Timorese stay!" is spot on. Many of us remember the almost sadistic trap the East Timorese refugees were deliberately caught in when they arrived after 1991. Before the Dili massacre there was no
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WOLLONGONG — The Greens have wrested the federal seat of Cunningham from the ALP, following an historic vote in Saturday's by-election. Greens candidate Michael Organ won roughly 23% of the primary vote, while the ALP's Sharon
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[The following letter was sent by DAVID GLANZ, on behalf of the national executive of the International Socialist Organisation, to the national executive of the Democratic Socialist Party on September 29.] The ISO's national executive and national
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HOBART Activists had wondered if the terrorist attack in Bali would dampen the spirits of the fourth in a series of weekly vigils against the war on Iraq that have attracted up to 100 people. On October 18, the conclusion was that it hadn't.
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GEELONG Successive Australian governments had shameful policies towards refugees and now the Howard government is going to create more by throwing its support behind George Bush's war on Iraq, Brigitte Ellery,
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John Jocka Burns died on October 11 at the age of 93. Although he avoided the limelight, Jocka was an indefatigable working-class agitator all of his adult life. He participated in many of the political struggles of the
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SYDNEY Reporting on its 2002 readership survey, the October 10 Sydney Star Observer stated that the gay and lesbian market remains buoyant, despite the difficulties faced this year by peak event-based community
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BRISBANE The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) University of Queensland branch has launched a Save our George campaign to win the reinstatement of associate professor George Lafferty. In August, Lafferty, who was employed by the UQ
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SYDNEY — On October 14, a meeting of the Palm Sunday Committee agreed to establish a new coalition of Sydney anti-war groups to organise a "walk against the war" on November 30 around the slogans "No war on Iraq! No Australian
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Like lots of oil "Iraq has unique characteristics that distinguish it." — US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, October 18, responding to a reporter's question: "If Iraq's a candidate for pre-emptive military action because it might be
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On October 13, as the news of the mass murder in Bali spread across Australia, 45,000 people marched through Melbourne's streets in order to prevent the loss of thousands more lives in a war on Iraq. Innocent people
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SYDNEY — The 35th anniversary of the death of Ernesto Che Guevara was marked with a seminar, entitled "Latin America's struggle for justice". More than 100 people participated. The gathering was initiated by Committees in
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Only one year ago yesterday, we too lost our brothers and sisters to the violence and injustice that stalks humanity right across the globe, refugees' rights activist Kathy Newnam told people gathered in Newcastle's Civic
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BRISBANE — Trade unions need to more actively support refugees' rights and expose their members to the truth about the plight of asylum seekers and the evils of Australia's refugee detention centres. This was the theme of a
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NEWCASTLE — An angry crowd of staff and students confronted Newcastle University vice-chancellor Roger Holmes on October 16 as he attempted to justify plans to close the Huxley Library and replace it with an electronic
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The latest in a series of Socialist Alliance-initiated Sydney suburban rallies against war on Iraq took place in Newtown on October 18. The rally was addressed by Socialist Alliance candidates for Marrickville (Sue Johnson) and Port Jackson (Paul
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Palestine forum BRISBANE — "For a day, the Palestinians felt that the whole world had not forgotten them", Eric Storlie, a peace activist recently returned from the Israeli-occupied West Bank, told a forum and video night at the Resistance
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The campaign to free Australian resident academic Lesley McCulloch from detention in Indonesia has been boosted by the National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU). The union's Tasmanian division donated $1000 to help
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CAIRNS — Non-nursing health unions have agreed to the enterprise bargaining agreement offered by the Queensland health department which involves a pay rise of 3.5% per annum, back-paid to June 1, and retention of many of the
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Political tensions in Venezuela continue to rise. On October 10, there was a mass mobilisation of middle- and upper-class opponents of President Hugo Chavez in the capital Caracas. This was followed three days later by an even
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The October 2 Cleveland Jewish News reported that several members of Congress, deemed to be "not a friend of Israel" or "anti-Israel", will not be reelected to Congress in November. They include Democrat party members Earl
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The month-long, four-phase election in the Indian-held section of Kashmir (IHK) was completed on October 8. The result ended the National Conference (NC) party's half-century near monopoly of political power in the IHK.
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While the leaders of the top imperialist countries argue over attacking Iraq, Israel's war on the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories continues. A report by the Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, covering events
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Although most leaders of the Arab countries claim to support for the Palestinian national liberation struggle, a recent report by the 22-member Arab League indicates that this commitment is primarily verbal. The October 15 Jordan
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BY DALE T. MCKINLEY JOHANNESBURG — Be afraid. Be very afraid. Lurking beneath the surface of an evidently otherwise contented and patriotic South African society, there lies a "new" enemy of the state and the people. According to those in the
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A series of "leaks" to major US newspapers have shed light on what is emerging as Washington's preferred political scenario in a post-invasion Iraq: before or during the US attack, senior officers of Iraq's armed forces overthrow
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LONDON — Each day now, someone says something even more incredible — even more unimaginable — about President George Bush's obsession with war. On October 7, Bush himself told an audience in Cincinnati about "nuclear
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LONDON — Edward Said once asked who, if not the writer, will "defeat the imposed silence and normalised quiet of power". Ghada Karmi is such a writer. Her book In Search of Fatima: a Palestinian story, to be published this month
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[The following statement was made by Ana Belen Monte to a US district court in Washington, DC, on October 16, before being sentenced to a 25-year prison term. She pleaded guilty in March to having spied for Cuba from the time she started work at the
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The streets of El Salvador's capital San Salvador were flooded as more than 50,000 people marched on October 16 in a resounding rejection of the privatisation of health care. Doctors, nurses, medical students and health workers were
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HARARE — More than 600 teachers have been fired for striking for better pay, it was reported on October 15. The state-controlled Herald newspaper reported that 627 members of the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ)
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Despite rampant vote rigging, Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf failed to achieve a majority in the country's National Assembly (lower house) election on October 10. The election just managed to beat the three-year deadline
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GLASGOW — An opinion poll, commissioned by the Glasgow Herald has revealed that support for the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) is running at 9%. Support for the party has continued to grow steadily since scoring 2% of the vote in the 1999 election
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Amiri Baraka — a famous African-American poet and political activist who, as LeRoi Jones, wrote the classic book Blues People in the 1960s — is under attack for a poem he wrote about the 9/11 attacks, titled "Somebody Blew Up
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Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only SuperpowerBy William BlumZed Books, 2002308 pages, $24.95 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Dossier season is upon us it seems. British Prime Minister Tony Blair's September 24 dossier on Iraq was spectacularly
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One Man in his TimeBy Hans PostOtford Press, 2002$31.77Order at <http://www.otfordpress.com.au/> REVIEW BY PETER McGREGOR Hans Post's One Man in his Time is an amazing and inspiring story. It's a historically significant autobiography