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ZAMBIA: Debt burden to increase after relief

BY MATT GRAINGER One of the poorest countries in Africa is about to undergo a process of debt reduction with a difference. It will be paying more in debt servicing after creditors provide debt relief than it is at present, with devastating

Gellibrand Socialist Alliance launched

BY ARUN PRADHAN MELBOURNE — "We need a formation like Socialist Alliance to take the battle of refugee rights to the streets", Friends of the Earth Melbourne coordinator Cam Walker told a dinner and launch of the Gellibrand Socialist Alliance

Worse for women

BY SARAH STEPHEN While the repression and violence in Afghanistan would be enough to make anyone flee, the conditions facing women are even worse than those facing men: Women are totally deprived of the right to education and work; No woman can

and ain't i a woman?: Sexism everywhere you look

Sexism everywhere you look A recently released Just Jeans television commercial for "candy stitch" jeans shows three women moving along the conveyor belt of a production line. They are still and their faces shiny, as if they were mannequins. The

SOUTH AFRICA: US boycott nothing new

BY JONINA M ABRON DURBAN — The United States government's withdrawal from the third World Conference Against Racism is consistent with its role in the two previous international conferences on racism. It boycotted those, too. A review of

Is Australia generous?

BY SARAH STEPHEN The Coalition government claims Australia is a very generous country which takes in large numbers of refugees, and that asylum seekers arriving on our shores are simply taking advantage of that reputation. Of the 10 countries who

SOUTH AFRICA: 'Enough is enough', says landless

BY VONANI WA KA BILA DURBAN — More than 3000 landless South Africans — women, farm workers, chiefs and young people — gathered on August 30 at the Roger Rovers Club for the International Landless People's Assembly, called by the newly formed

Sri Lankan diplomat accused of violations

BY CHRIS SLEE MELBOURNE — Five hundred people protested on September 2 against a visit by the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Australia, Janaka Perera. Because of the protest, Perera's meeting was shifted to another venue. Perera, a former

Why they're fleeing

BY RACHEL EVANS & SARAH STEPHEN In a letter to the Australian people on Auguts 30, the Afghan asylum seekers on the MS Tampa said of their plight, "You know well about the long-time war and its tragic human consequences ... the genocide and

It's not a queue, it's a lottery

BY SARAH STEPHEN One of immigration minister Philip Ruddock's central arguments against accepting "queue jumpers" (read, onshore arrivals) from Afghanistan is because they know that they have a better chance of being granted asylum in Australia

Workers must unite against racism

BY JOHN PASSANT Disgracefully, shamefully and immorally, the Australian government is refusing entry to 438 mainly Afghan asylum seekers. All this is part of the campaign to re-elect Prime Minister John Howard. And the federal opposition Australian

Asylum seeking in Australia

Blood drenched dreams danglingfrom the spikes of the razor wire —so close to freedom.Wild fearful eyes stareinto our collective consciousnessand sear our indifference.Batoned discipline enforcedby Wackenhut guards — Capitalism's storm troopers.