BY SEAN WALSH & SARAH PEART
MELBOURNE — Would politicians survive Big Brother? This was the contentious and very important question posed at a Green Left Weekly fundraising evening held in the Brunswick Town Hall on August 23 and attended by 100
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Men are the new, silent victims of the sex war, "continually demeaned and insulted" by women without a whimper of protest. A "lazy and insidious" culture has taken hold within feminism that revels in flailing men. "Men seem to be so cowed that they
BY JIM MCILROY
BRISBANE — The Community and Public Sector Union has announced it will join an independent inquiry, launched by a range of community organisations, into the federal government's "breaching" policy, which has led to Centrelink
subh = New Resistance branch launched
@box text intr = MELBOURNE â Resistance's new Melbourne north-east branch was launched in Northcote's Caf 303 on August 18. Seventy people celebrated the new branch, listening to music from Jupiter Sound,
BY SARAH CLEARY
HOBART — With campaigning for student union elections gearing up at the University of Tasmania, activists from the Socialist Alliance are calling for a referendum to establish the position of international solidarity officer.
BY JULIAN COPPENS
MELBOURNE — The Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union decided at its August 22 state council meeting to demonstrate outside Prime Minister John Howard's October 3 "Inaugural Ceremony and Dinner Address"
BY STEPHANIE BRENNAN
SMARA REFUGEE CAMP, Algeria — As our battered four-wheel drive makes its way through the desert into the outskirts of the Wilaya, dozens of small dusty children run out to meet us looking for sweets — caramello, caramello?
BY PAUL OBOOHOV
CANBERRA — Protesters gathered outside the Belconnen office of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA) on August 20 to call for the freeing of the refugees. Many participants had been shocked by the August
Abortion access
In my article "How and why abortion access is limited" (GLW #460), the prospect of Tasmanian health minister Judy Jackson investigating the possibility of public funding for a new abortion clinic was hailed as "a significant victory
BY NORM DIXON
The South African Landless People's Movement (LPM) on August 16 launched a "Landlessness = Racism" campaign to highlight the issue of land hunger during United Nations World Conference Against Racism, and the preceding Non-Government
BY ANGELA LUVERA
"Around the world young people are radicalising through the new anti-corporate globalisation movement. In some cases this has meant putting their lives directly on the line such as in Indonesia, PNG and at the recent mass protests
BY CARMELO RUIZ-MARRERO
SAN JUAN — The Puerto Rico Aqueducts and Sewers Authority (PRASA) is on the verge of collapse. In the last few years, the citizenry has been showered with a seemingly endless string of press reports about the agency's
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