On July 4, the anniversary of the 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence in what was to become the USA, activists in the US, Britain, New Zealand, Australia and other countries took action to protest the US and British governments'
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BY DOUG LORIMER On July 8, the parliament of the Solomon Islands is expected to approve an Australian-led military and police intervention into its country. The proposal was endorsed by the foreign ministers and government leaders of all 16 Pacific
BY LIAM MITCHELL SYDNEY Spearheaded by the Sydney Morning Herald, the corporate media has launched an attack on the display of union solidarity which helped 40 strikers at the Morris McMahon can manufacturing plant win their dispute.
"Far too many young boys are growing up without proper role models", a concerned John Howard told parliament on June 24. "They are not infrequently in the overwhelming care and custody of their mothers", the prime minister added, motivating a
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 9564 1277. Visit
BY JAMES BALOWSKI JAKARTA The Indonesian military's (TNI) vicious little war against the people in its northern-most province of Aceh is reaching new heights, and new regulations to restrict the media and limit aid groups' and human rights
BY KEIRAN LATTY
Danny Fairfax's article "profiting from death" (GLW #543) rightly highlights the relationship between arms spending and the economy, but the picture is more complex than he paints.
In the past, military expenditure and war have
Fightback! interviewed the imprisoned general-secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahmad Saadat, on May 20.
The PFLP is the second-largest political group within the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). It is a
Keef Tomkinson is a member, and former national organiser, of the Scottish Socialist Youth, the youth organisation of the Scottish Socialist Party. He will be speaking in Sydney at the Resistance national conference, July 11-13 at the Glebe
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Claiming that Iran has a secret nuclear weapons program, US government officials have pressured Japan to abandon the development of a huge oil project there. According to a report in the July 2 edition of the Tokyo daily Mainichi
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