Green Left Weekly's Steve O'Brien spoke to Trevor Ngwane, a leader of the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF), about the renewed talk of a break-up of the Tripartite Alliance between the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Communist Party
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Pat Denny On August 22, the Pentagon announced that it had issued an involuntary call-up of Marine reservists. Those affected by what has been described as a "backdoor draft" are members of the Individual Ready Reserve — reservists who for the
Tony Dewberry It is one of the ironies of history that PM John Howard had to withdraw his Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals or DUA) Bill just before on the fifth anniversary of the Tampa fiasco. The bill excised the entire
The New PuritansBy Muriel PorterMelbourne University Press, 2006184 pages, $29.95 Voting for Jesus: Christianity and Politics in AustraliaQuarterly EssayBy Amanda LohreyBlack Inc.111 pages, $14.95 REVIEW BY BARRY HEALY Christianity arrived with a
CANBERRA — Activists from the Canberra Region Anti-Nuclear Campaign made a submission to the Howard government's Uranium Mining Processing and Nuclear Energy Review, which closed on August 18. The CRANC submission criticised the narrow terms of
The September 9 Queensland election is an opportunity to campaign around those issues the Queensland Labor Party is keen to ignore. The September 9 Queensland election is an opportunity to declare that there is another way of running this state, one
Noreen Navin, Sydney On August 21, the NSW Teachers Federation website reported that nearly 1000 schools and 16,000 teachers have sent resolutions to the state education minister, Carmel Tebbutt, opposing the new government-imposed A-to-E student
The Ethics of What We EatBy Peter Singer & Jim MasonText Publishing, Melbourne2006, $32.95 REVIEW BY BELINDA SELKE The Ethics of What We Eat by world-renowned ethicist and animal liberationist Peter Singer, and Jim Mason, a journalist, lawyer and
The government of socialist President Hugo Chavez has launched a campaign to collect money in Venezuela for donation to Lebanon, in an attempt to help reconstructing Lebanon following Israel's war on the country, according to the foreign minister,
Pip Hinman, Sydney On August 15, Marrickville Council reaffirmed its anti-nuclear stance, unanimously adopting a motion from Greens' Mayor Sam Byrne that called on policy makers to "focus on the practical benefits provided by renewable energy and
"Opposition among Americans to the war in Iraq has reached a new high, with only about a third of respondents saying they favor it", CNN reported on August 21, adding that "61 percent say they oppose it — the highest opposition noted in any CNN
Kim Bullimore An investigative committee established by Israeli "defence" minister Amir Peretz to examine the military conduct of the war against Lebanon was suspended on August 22 after only a single day's work. It was suspended amid growing calls
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