Firmly inhuman
"The approach I have taken in relation to these matters requires a degree of firmness, which sometimes people think demonstrates a lack of humanity. But I think your humanity has a greater potential to be evil than if you remain
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BY NICK SOUDAKOFF
On January 31, US and Philippines military officials launched the
“Balikatan 2002” exercises, which bring together US troops and the soldiers
of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). While the exercises are supposedly
BY LEON PARISSI
Alison Dellit's article "Labor flounders rightward" (GLW #474) cheers on those voices who are in favour of decreased union influence in the ALP.
She wrote: "It would be no loss for workers if trade unions' votes within the ALP
BY NATALIE ZIRNGAST
MARYSVILLE, Victoria — On January 23, a forest blockade near Marysville was broken up by police. David Marsden, a spokesperson for the blockade organising group, Actively Conserving Marysville Environs (ACME), described the
BY KATE STOCKDALE
DARWIN — Socialist Alliance's campaign for Lord Mayor of Darwin was launched on February 1 at a protest in support of refugees. The alliance will be running Ruth Ratcliffe in the March 16 poll.
"The campaign is an excellent
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SYDNEY — People gathered on January 31 outside Israel's consulate to
protest against the brutal occupation of Palestine. Since the beginning
of the current intifada, 192 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli
troops and
BY TAMARA PEARSON
SYDNEY — Around 2000 people mobilised in Town Hall Square on February 2 to demand the closure of the Australian government's appalling immigration detention centres, an end to mandatory detention of asylum seekers and their
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN — Late last year a "temporary processing centre" for asylum seekers was constructed on the Coonawarra Naval Base, located in outer Darwin.
Despite costing $3 million to build, it remains empty as the federal Coalition
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The movement against corporate globalisation in the United States faces an important test at the January 31-February 4 meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in New York: has the wave of "anti-terrorist" hysteria crippled it?
In his Australia Day address on January 26, Labor opposition leader Simon Crean argued that women and children asylum seekers should be released from refugee detention centres. He called for a "solution that is lasting, bi-partisan and firm, but
BY SUSAN PRICE
The United States and other First World governments are using the "war on terrorism" as a pretext to launch an offensive against the peoples of the Third World. All around the world, governments are attacking working people's living
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