BY EVA CHENG
In late December, two leaders who took part in organising a 17,000-strong workers' protest last March in Liaoyang, Liaoning province, and have been in detention ever since, were charged with "subversion". They could be executed if
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FEDERICO FUENTES
BUENOS AIRES The anniversary of the Argentinazo, the popular
uprising which resulted in the fall of five successive presidents in two
weeks in December 2001, was marked by a massive demonstration here on December
The following
resolution was unanimously adopted by the 20th Congress of the Democratic
Socialist Party, held in Sydney from December 28, 2002, to January 1, 2003.
This 20th Congress of the Democratic Socialist Party:
1. Reaffirms our
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Since the December-January fires in five refugee prisons, there has been much corporate media attention on those charged, or accused (and locked up without charge) of starting them. But we have seen few reports of the brutal
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BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
On December 12, federal sex discrimination commissioner Pru Goward
released her final proposal for 14 weeks of government-funded paid maternity
leave, to be included in the 2003 federal budget.
Under the scheme,
BY ROBIN TAUBENFELD
BRISBANE — Police have suggested that the wheels are "now in motion" to close down the Narangba protest camp. The protest camp, which has maintained a 24-hour peaceful vigil opposite the proposed Steritech nuclear irradiation
BY CHRIS LATHAM
FREMANTLE — On January 6, the USS Abraham Lincoln, the world's largest aircraft carrier, returned to Fremantle just two weeks after its last visit. It had been scheduled to return to the US, but was ordered back to Fremantle to
national secretary John Percy; Sydney University student activist Ashisha Cunningham; former BHP steelworker now teacher Geoff Payne; Sudanese political refugee and refugee-rights activist Osama Yousif; feminist activist and trainee teacher at
BY PETER ROBSON & LISA LINES
Refugees' rights protests organised at short notice in Adelaide and Newcastle helped to expose the media's lies about asylum seekers in the second week of January.
In Adelaide, 60 people attended a January 8 protest
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