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Think of Silver

Expensive spoons, some wereborn with; also the worditself sliding as smoothly off the tongue.Then all the substitutes cheap but preciousreflected in eyeshine at Xmas toys, tinselsparklers, stars. But hard glitter of mint-new silver dollarswere

Unions and the war in Palestine

Construction Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, mining and energy division, Tony Maher, Ramallah, SUE BOLTON"> Unions and the war in Palestine Unions and the war in Palestine   BY SUE BOLTON Israel’s brutal

FIJI: Qarase defies constitution

BY MICHELLE BREAR SUVA — Since the flawed August 2001 general election, which legitimised and formalised the 2000 military overthrow of the democratically elected Fiji Labour Party government, Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase has refused to honour

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Greenpeace highlights illegal logging

BY JIM GREEN Greenpeace activists blocked the export of illegally logged timber from the Kiunga-Aiambak logging project in western Papua New Guinea on March 12. Volunteers locked themselves onto a barge carrying the timber and also obstructed the

Jarring comment on a fraught world

The Great Aussie ScreamPaul BuckberryOrder at <http://www.buckberry.com> REVIEW BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE The Great Aussie Scream is like nothing that I have ever heard before and definitely gets full marks for creativity. The music defies

NSW ALP conference: a test for Labor for Refugees

BY MARGARET GLEESON Labor for Refugees was formed in NSW at the end of 2001, giving expression to the frustration of ordinary ALP members who were increasingly disgusted at the party's anti-refugee policies. One of the main aims of the group has

ISRAEL: Large Tel Aviv rally calls for troop pullout

Tens of thousands rallied in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on May 11 to call for the withdrawal of Israeli soldiers from the Occupied Territories. Police estimated the crowd at about 60,000, while organisers — Peace Now — put the figure at

Write on: Letters to the editor

American alliance All of Australia's defence personnel serving overseas should be withdrawn immediately The revelation by defence minister Senator Hill that our troops in Afghanistan killed three hundred of the enemy without loss and without

Colour me khaki: sick and poor pay for repression

BY ALISON DELLIT "Don't believe them when they tell me there ain't no cure. The rich stay healthy, the sick stay poor" — U2's 1988 song God Part II contains a pretty good summary of the Howard government's seventh budget, delivered on May 14.

Hundreds attend actions for refugees' rights

BY KAMALA EMANUEL HOBART — Hundreds of people have attended refugee solidarity activities here in recent weeks. This bodes well for a major rally against the mandatory detention of asylum seekers on June 22. On May 2, 250 people attended a

Stop the charcoal factory!

BY BRETT MULLER On May 1, NSW planning minister Andrew Refshauge approved Australian Silicon Ltd's proposed development of a charcoal factory at Mogo, on the NSW south coast. The department received more than 1530 submissions from 1220

And ain't i a woman?: Fleeing domestic violence

And ain't i a woman?: Fleeing domestic violence Naima Khawar and her three children came to Australia from Pakistan on visitors' visas in June 1997. She applied for refugee status in September, because she had suffered 11 years of domestic