BY
SARAH STEPHEN
Forging greater left unity through the Socialist Alliance and building
a mass movement in opposition to the US-led war against Iraq were the two
main priorities set for the coming year by the Democratic Socialist Party
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The January 9 announcement that 1550 Australian Special Air Service (SAS) and other troops will be sent to the Gulf in coming weeks is further confirmation that Australians will take part in an attack on Iraq.
In fact, some may already be.
Tears in our eyes, our hearts enveloped in sadnessGoing through the pain, sharing the griefFaces of Bali, faces of SIEV-X drowned at seaFaces of Afghans, faces from Iraq, from Palestine, from Kashmir, from Chechnya, from New YorkFrom every avoidable
BY ROHAN PEARCE
In a December 27 BBC radio interview, Ruud Lubbers, UN high commissioner for refugees, said that a war on Iraq "will be a disaster from a humanitarian perspective". This is confirmed by confidential draft UN report obtained by the
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
SYDNEY — NSW police officers subjected the Mufti of Australia and Imam of the Lakemba mosque, Sheikh Taj el-Din al Hilaly, to demands for a body search on January 6.
According to al Hilaly's lawyer, Stephen Hopper, as a
BY ROBIN TAUBENFELD
BRISBANE — Police have suggested that the wheels are "now in motion" to close down the Narangba protest camp. The protest camp, which has maintained a 24-hour peaceful vigil opposite the proposed Steritech nuclear irradiation
BY DALE McKINLEY
JOHANNESBURG — In the words of South African President Thabo Mbeki, "the question cannot be avoided for too long", especially in light of the recently concluded 51st national congress of the ruling African National Congress
Around 30,000 people staged a candlelight rally at Gwanghwa Gate, Seoul,
on New Year's Eve to protest the killing of two high school students, Shin
Hyo-Soon and Shim Mi-Sun (inset), by US soldiers driving an armoured vehicle
in June. The
BY JIM MCILROY
BRISBANE — I have recently experienced a serious operation within the public health system of Queensland. After a period of angina I was referred for cardiac investigation to the Prince Charles hospital in the northern suburbs of
BY PETER ROBSON & LISA LINES
Refugees' rights protests organised at short notice in Adelaide and Newcastle helped to expose the media's lies about asylum seekers in the second week of January.
In Adelaide, 60 people attended a January 8 protest
BY EVA CHENG
In late December, two leaders who took part in organising a 17,000-strong workers' protest last March in Liaoyang, Liaoning province, and have been in detention ever since, were charged with "subversion". They could be executed if
BY ROHAN PEARCE
A report in the December 26 Washington Post has revealed that US forces are torturing Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners at its Bagram air base in Afghanistan.
According to the report, "Those who refuse to cooperate inside this secret
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