Kim Bullimore
In a letter to the August 25 Australian Jewish News (AJN), federal Labor MP for Melbourne Ports Michael Danby launched a "pre-emptive strike" on a yet-to-be published book, Voices of Reason, which explores the pro-Israel lobby in
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Marg Gleeson
Ever since the shock resignations last month of the NSW Labor government's three top ministers, it has been a turbulent time in state politics.
It started with new premier, Morris Iemma, and then-opposition leader John Brogden
Socialist feminist Linda Averill, a bus driver and a union activist, is campaigning as a Freedom Socialist Party candidate for the September 20 Seattle City Council election. She is backed by her union, Amalgamated Transit Local 587, as well as other
Sarah Stephen
The immigration department's website claims that as of August 26 there were 667 people still being held in detention. The department does not include in those figures the 27 asylum seekers remaining on Nauru. Villawood detention
On September 16, 1982, under the protection of the Israeli military, then led by the current Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, right-wing Lebanese Christian militias entered the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. They murdered
Ben Courtice, Melbourne
The Socialist Alliance will run candidates in two wards for the November 26 Maribyrnong City Council elections — George Papanastasiou for Sheoak ward and Jorge Jorquera in Ironbark ward.
The Socialist Alliance has two
Alex Miller
The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) has abandoned its plan to mount a legal challenge to the banning of four of its parliamentarians (MSPs) from the Scottish Parliament for the month of September.
Colin Fox, Frances Curran, Carolyn
The United Nations General Assembly has been "completely turned, its main aim kidnapped", president of Cuba's National Assembly Ricardo Alarcon said on September 9, in a speech read by Cuban ambassador to the UN Orlando Requeijo. Alarcon was denied a
Sarah Stephen
On April 22, Fijian-born Sereana Naikelekele was released from Villawood detention centre, where she had spent almost three years. She was granted a bridging visa E (BVE).
Naikelekele spent four months struggling to survive with her
MELBOURNE — On September 6, 50 people gathered at the Collingwood Town Hall to discuss the federal government's planned new workplace laws. Zana Bytheway, the director of Jobwatch; Michele O'Neil, the Victorian secretary of the Textile, Clothing
Norman Brewer, Bremen
The latest opinion poll suggests that the centre-left Social Democrat-Greens federal government of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will fail to win enough seats in the September 18 federal parliament election to retain
Roger Annis, Vancouver
Eighteen months after an imperialist invasion that served the overthrow of the elected government of Haiti, a ferocious repression continues to rain down on the people of that country. The three invading countries — the US,
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