Kim Bullimore, West Bank
International Solidarity Movement activist Hannah James was singled out and arrested by the Israeli secret police, the General Security Services (GSS) as she took part in a peaceful demonstration against the expansion of
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Green Left Weekly's James Caulfield and Kerryn Williams spoke to some of those present at the November 16 convergence on parliament about why they joined the protest.
Lesley Bond was representing the Taree Residents For Refugees, established less
The following is a message from jailed unionist Craig Johnston to the November 25 Melbourne rally calling for his release and for an end to the criminalisation of unions.
From my prison cell in Loddon I thank you all for attending this rally. I
More mass actions and workers' protests have erupted in China, releasing pent-up anger over further erosion of the workers' and peasants' living conditions. And the government has responded with severe repression. Up to 100,000 peasants
Kerryn Williams & James Caulfield, Canberra
"The refugee movement is here to stay. We are becoming stronger by the day. We will fight on to free the refugees!" This declaration from Big Brother's Merlin Luck captured the determined mood of up to
Andrew Martin, Brisbane
Jailed unionist Craig Johnston "put his own neck on the line to defend his members", former Victorian state secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Frank Fairley said on November 20. Fairley was
Sue Bolton
In a letter to all national and state union secretaries and trades and labour council secretaries on November 3, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national secretary Doug Cameron stated that he "has been approached by a number of
Ian Jamieson, Fremantle
With the support of the Greens in the Western Australian Legislative Council in October, Labor Premier Geoff Gallop's government finally succeeded, after four years, in getting its much-vaunted workers' compensation
Liberated health care
"Patients and hospital employees [at Fallujah General Hospital] were rushed out of rooms by armed soldiers and ordered to sit or lie on the floor while troops tied their hands behind their backs." — New York Times, November
Tim Anderson
Hidden behind the rhetoric of "democracy" in the 458-page report titled "Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba", and underlying US President George Bush's regime's plan for a "transition" in the island nation, are all the major
Edgar Snow: A BiographyBy John Maxwell HamiltonLouisiana State University Press, 2003343 pages, $40 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
"Revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries or their propaganda", wrote US journalist Edgar Snow. "Revolutions are
Tamara Pearson, Sydney
From the way the mainstream media has been quoting politicians and religious leaders, including federal health minister Tony Abbott, Governor-General Micheal Jeffery and Catholic Archbishop Denis Hart on abortion lately, you
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