Perry Brown, Newcastle
Refugee rights activist Steve Georgopoulos is organising a flotilla of yachts to sail to the Pacific island state of Nauru as a gesture of solidarity with the remaining asylum seekers imprisoned there by the Howard
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Dot Tumney
I have no idea what triggered the mental processes that caused me to take up political activity in 1971 or why I have kept the habit to one degree or another ever since. I can, however, describe the circumstances the caused me to join
Sarah Harris, Sydney
On December 17, legislation was rushed through the NSW parliament by Labor Premier Bob Carr's government to allow the Collex company to set up a large domestic waste transfer station at Clyde, in the Sydney municipality of
REVIEW BY JOE ALLEN
Master and Commander: the Far Side of WorldDirected by Peter WeirScreenplay by Peter Weir and John ColleeWith Russell Crowe and Paul BettanyAt major cinemas
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World has received
Doug Lorimer
Immediately following the December 13 announcement that US troops had captured former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the corporate media in the US, Britain and Australia was full of claims that the resistance movement had been
The following statement was issued by national co-convenors of the Socialist Alliance on January 6.
There is an obvious, simple and humane solution to the tragedy unfolding on Nauru — grant Australian citizenship to the 248 refugees who have been
Max Lane, Perth
All of those who were involved in working for East Timorese independence are terribly saddened by the sudden death of Dr Andrew McNaughtan.
All the activists in Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor, and later Action
Igor O'Neill, Jakarta
On January 7, riot police opened fire on local residents protesting against the environmental and social impacts of Melbourne-based mining company Newcrest's Toguraci goldmining operation on the Indonesian island of Halmahera.
Barry Sheppard, San Francisco
The Democratic Party nationally got a big scare when Green Party candidate Matt Gonzalez came close to winning the race for mayor of San Francisco on December 9.
Gonzalez received 47% of the vote, while his
Pauline Rigby
John Howard is doubly right. Earlier this year when Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction" were being touted as a reason to go to war, he said, we should be prepared to act when "we know that a country has weapons of mass destruction
Boris Kagarlitsky, Moscow
With more than 36% of votes the pro-Kremlin United Russia party looks like the only real winner in Russia's parliamentary elections, held on December 7. It also succeeded in getting a massive victory in single-member
Operation Iraqi Freedom
"As the guerrilla war against Iraqi insurgents intensifies, American soldiers have begun wrapping entire villages in barbed wire. In Abu Hishma, encased in a razor-wire fence after repeated attacks on American troops,
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