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MANILA — Some 20,000 militant workers, together with the urban poor and student youth, celebrated National Heroes Day on November 30 with a vow to “continue Gat Andres Bonifacio's struggle by resisting imperialist globalisation and war”.
Solid lies "The president of the United States and the secretary of defence would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction ... if they did not have a solid basis for saying it" — White House
BY ALISON DELLIT On December 5, ALP federal parliamentarian Carmen Lawrence announced her resignation from the party's shadow cabinet in protest at Labor's new policy on refugees and asylum seekers. In a blistering 20-minute statement, Lawrence
Islam and homosexuality As a supporter of GLW, I am very disappointed that Leon Harrison (GLW #519) is attacking us like a right-wing columnist. It would have been very easy for him to contact myself through GLW, which has my email address and my
Boy Overboard By Morris Gleitzman Puffin Books 144 pages, $14.95 (pb) REVIEW BY ANDREA BLAKE Boy Overboard is a book that tackles the issue of refugees by humanising their experiences. It is written for readers who are 10 years old
BY PETER BOYLE In real political terms the most important development in the November 30 Victorian election was the doubling of the Greens' vote — to 9.2% in the lower house and 10.3% in the upper house — and their beating the Liberals to win
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COMMENT BY MICK BULL The position of the Victorian branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) on the question of “illegal” labour is rather simple in comparison to some of the other branches of the union.
ADELAIDE — KRIS HANNA is ALP member for the state seat of Mitchell and secretary of the Refugee Advocacy Service of South Australia. With a background in law, he has acted for many asylum seekers. In recent weeks, Hanna has criticised the South
BY MIKE KARADJIS United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan, releasing a grand plan for the resolution of the 28-year-old Cyprus conflict on November 11, has given Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders a one-month deadline to agree on its
BY GRANT COLEMAN WOLLONGONG — On November 21, students from Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, labeled the Coalition government "out of order" and started their "walk for a better education". The journey has taken them through the Blue
Prime Minister John Howard's December 1 statement in an interview on Channel Nine's Sunday program that his government would launch pre-emptive military attacks on neighbouring countries to stop any suspected terrorist strike on Australia has