Sixty-five per cent of citizens across the world do not think their country is governed by the will of the people, according to an opinion poll commissioned by the BBC. The Gallup International Voice of the People 2005 poll questioned 50,000 people
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On September 23, 1916, 12 members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) — who became known as the Sydney 12 — were sentenced to hard labour for periods of between five and 15 years. They were found guilty of treason and sedition, but since
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SYDNEY — On September 16, the socialist youth organisation Resistance initiated a speak-out against PM John Howard's proposed industrial relations reforms. Speakers at the protest, outside McDonald's at Circular Quay, highlighted the damaging
A majority of US residents believe that the US war in Iraq contributed to the slow response by the federal government to last month's hurricane disaster in New Orleans and other Gulf coast areas, according to a poll by CBS TV News. The poll, reported
Louay Alzaher
Iraq was plunged into mourning on August 31 after some 1130 Shiite Muslims lost their lives in a stampede in the Kadhimiya district of Baghdad the previous day. The stampede was caused by rumours that there were suicide bombers in a
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane
A vigil on the steps of King George Square on September 11, called in support of Cindy Sheehan, mother of a US combat soldier killed in Iraq, led off several protest actions in Brisbane against the Iraq war and in defence of
Pip Hinman
The following is abridged from a speech by Pip Hinman to a Newtown community speak-out against the new terror laws on September 15. Hinman stood for the Socialist Alliance in the Marrickville by-election in NSW on September 17.
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Nick Everett, Canberra
On September 7, long-time Community and Public Sector Union activist and delegate to Unions ACT council Paul Oboohov was removed from the CPSU's delegation to the council. Oboohov was also disendorsed as a CPSU representative
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