BY AHMAD NIMER
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israel's war against the Palestinian Intifada continues to escalate. On August 27, Israeli death squads assassinated a senior Palestinian political leader in his office in a residential neighbourhood.
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BY CHRIS SMITH
BEIT UMMAR, West Bank — As soon as the Israeli army jeep disappears around the bend, a dusty minivan emerges from the grape fields outside this farming town in southern West Bank. Revving the engine as he accelerates into the turn,
Wifework: What Marriage Really Means for WomenBy Susan MaushartText Publishing, Melbourne, 2001269 pages, $24.95
REVIEW BY ANGELA LUVERA
Prime Minister John Howard's assertion that the family is the best welfare unit reflects his government's
Environmentally sustainable death
"Neither do you want to pollute your own environment, nor do you want to put your own policemen and soldiers at risk." — Professor Thomas Klaptoke of the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany,
BY EVA CHENG
Hundreds of workers in Beijing and Shanxi province staged protests in August, seeking job security and payment of unpaid wages, while 10,000 miners in Jilin province blocked a major train line in July.
The Beijing workers alleged
BY BRIAN MARTIN
Copyrights and patents are forms of intellectual monopoly that mainly benefit powerful groups. Largely unquestioned until recently, there is now the beginning of an opposition movement.
Independent inventors have little to gain
BY CHRISTOPHER PERKINS
WOLLONGONG — Illawarra Institute of TAFE management have agreed to negotiate with TAFE library staff representatives on September 10 in an effort to halt an escalating industrial dispute over job and budget cuts.
The
WOLLONGONG — The Socialist Alliance candidate for the federal seat of Cunningham, Dr Margaret Perrott, praised the young people who joined the high school walkout against the federal government's treatment of refugees on September 5.
"These
On average, almost six women die each day from unsafe abortions in Nepal and those that are lucky enough to survive back-alley procedures then risk life imprisonment.
Under current laws, abortion is prohibited even in cases of rape, incest or when
Pauline Hanson told a rally on the Sunshine Coast in February how One Nation would deal with asylum seekers coming to Australia by boat: "You go out and meet them, fill them with food and water and medical supplies and say 'Go that way'."
In an
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — Community and Public Sector Union members in tax offices around Australia have voted to endorse a campaign against planned job cuts.
In the last budget the federal government cut Australian Taxation Office funding by
The terror here is intentional
"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo — obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other." — Angela Davis.
I am often asked the question,
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