BY SARAH STEPHEN
The New Zealand government announced on May 6 that it would accept 140 refugees — 71 Afghans and 69 Iraqis— to ease pressure on United Nations refugee camps in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Nauru.
Fourteen of the refugees
492
BY TARIQ ALI
LAHORE It has been a stunningly beautiful spring in Pakistan. But
the surface calm is deceptive. When the war in Afghanistan began, I suggested
that the Taliban would be rapidly defeated and that the jihadi organisations
and
BY SHANE BENTLEY
Seventeen seafarers aboard the CSL Yarra docked in Port Pirie, South Australia, began a sit-in on May 1 in an attempt to stop Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) replacing them with poorly paid Ukrainian labour.
Maritime unions are
The commemoration of the forced integration of West Papua (formerly known as Irian Jaya, now Papua) with Indonesia on May 1 was marked by peaceful protests by pro-independence supporters across West Papua's major towns.
The demonstrations condemned
Last September, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced that the Labour-Alliance coalition government she leads would be willing to take a small number of the 430 refugees aboard the MV Tampa, which was then stranded in seas off Christmas Island by the Australian government's refusal to let it dock.
BY JON LAND
On the eve of East Timor's independence on May 20, the crucial issue of the Timor Gap has still to be fully resolved. East Timor may lose billions of dollars in oil and gas royalties if the Australian government and the large
MALAYSIA: May Day gathering terrorised by
police
KUALA LUMPUR What was to be a peaceful gathering of progressive
workers and social justice activists on May 1 at Kuala Lumpur City Centre
(KLCC Twin Towers) turned into mayhem when
BY SHANE BENTLEY
SYDNEY — The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) held a rally on May 6 outside the offices of Canada Steamship Lines in support of CSL Yarra seafarers.
The "Australian workers for Australian jobs" rally was greeted by the Sydney
BY LISA MACDONALD
ARMIDALE — A May 8 public meeting discussed how to galvanise public support for ending the federal government's brutal asylum-seeker policy. The 50-strong meeting was titled "Refugees: what is to be done".
Organised by the
Blaming the victim I
"As Israeli forces pursued militants, civilians continued getting in the way and dying as a result." — New York Times report, April 21.
Blaming the victim II
"The trouble is that we are facing a Palestinian leadership
Palestine solidarity protest planned
WOLLONGONG — At a May 11 meeting, Palestinian solidarity activists decided to call a protest on May 25 to help free Palestine. The rally will begin at 10.30 am outside Fred Moore House in Lowden Square and
BY NEW YORK TRANSFER
NEWS COLLECTIVE
NEW YORK The administration of US President George Bush lumped
Cuba into its war on terrorism on May 6 placing the country on a second-tier
axis of evil list with Syria and Libya.
The US
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