BY DALE MILLS
The European Commission for Human Rights, Europe's senior human rights court, ruled in a judgment delivered on July 1 that the British investigation into the murder of civil rights solicitor Patrick Finucane was flawed.
Finucane was
545
BY DUNCAN MEERDING & ALBY DALLAS HOBART A public forum on health and education was attended by 50 people on July 2. Held at the Republic Bar, a popular left-wing pub, the meeting was organised by the Socialist Alliance. The participants
BY GRAHAM WILLIAMS MELBOURNE More than 700 workers mobilised on July 3 at Footscray's Whitten Oval, as part of a campaign to win a new enterprise bargaining agreement across the Victorian manufacturing industry. This round of pattern
BY JOHN PILGER
America's two "great victories" since September 11, 2001, are unravelling. In Afghanistan, the regime of Hamid Karzai has virtually no authority and no money, and would collapse without US guns. Al Qaeda has not been defeated, and
BY DOUG LORIMER
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
BY ROLANDO PEREZ BETANCOURT
HAVANA Without ceremony from those who, during the Cold War, exalted him as if he were a god of letters, Englishman George Orwell reaches his 100th birthday. Orwell was the great critic of the Soviet state and of
BY DOUG LORIMER
On June 16, a US federal judge in Philadelphia overturned the conviction of Jim Sabzali, the first Canadian citizen to be found guilty of violating the US trade embargo against Cuba.
Sabzali had faced the prospect of spending the
BY PAUL BENEDEK SYDNEY Six police officers prevented film reviewer Margaret Pomeranz, journalist David Marr and others from playing a DVD of the US film Ken Park to a packed out Balmain Town Hall audience of 400 adults on July 3. Ken Park was
The Indonesian government has an almost "pathological hostility to separatism", Dr Ed Aspinall, lecturer in South-East Asian Studies at Sydney University, told a forum on July 2.
BY WERNER COHRS [Werner Cohrs was a candidate for SA branch secretary in the June elections for the Maritime Union of Australia. Although Cohrs was not elected, militants did well in the elections, gaining control of two of the three union
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'
BY CHRIS LATHAM
In the lead-up to PM John Howard's announcement that Australia would send troops to the Solomon Islands, the mainstream media was filled with the lurid descriptions of violent criminal gangs terrorising the Solomons' population, and
- Page 1
- Next page