Joburg businessmen ease into their limos, sip iced coffee under restaurant umbrellasand beneath the city, rust corrugated shackswhere dust and hunger hide sad faceswhere millions of township peoplewalk each day slowlythe nothing they own making not a
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BY DALE MILLS
SYDNEY — A report criticising police behaviour at the November protests at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Sydney mini-summit was released by the Legal Observers Team, based at the University of Technology Sydney, on February
BY
LAUREN CARROLL HARRIS
SYDNEY — “I believe that young people will be especially affected
by the war, and that is one of the reasons why opposition to the war among
youth and students is so strong”, Karol Florek told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly.
BY
JAMES BALOWSKI
JAKARTA — On February 24, hundreds of demonstrators from
the People's Democratic Party (PRD) took action against US plans to attack
Iraq.
The demonstration began at the Hotel Indonesia roundabout in central
Jakarta then
BY STEVE O'BRIEN
NEWCASTLE — The Socialist Alliance has decided not to stand against Progressive Labor Party member Harry Williams in the seat of Newcastle in the March 22 NSW election. The PLP failed to gain state electoral registration and
BY PIP HINMAN
Australia-based Scottish academic LESLEY McCULLOCH and US nurse Joy-Lee Sadler were arrested in Indonesian-occupied south Aceh on September 11. They were beaten, harassed and jailed for five months and four months respectively on
BY
TAMARA PEARSON
HARARE — At 8am, people here wait in long queues for the shops and
banks to open. Milk is scarce, and salt and oil can only be obtained at
ridiculous prices on the black market. Cars form 1-kilometre-long queues
for
BY
PETER BOYLE
GLASGOW — The Scottish Socialist Party may win up to eight candidates
in the May 1 elections for the Scottish parliament. At the very least,
sole SSP parliamentarian Tommy Sheridan told the annual SSP conference
on February
BY
SUE BOLTON
Over the past four weeks, several trade unions have passed motions
to take stop work action against the threatened war on Iraq. Mobilising
the ranks of the unions, the largest organisations of working people, will
be crucial
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Contract scab labour could be used on the Suncorp Stadium project in a bid to break a strike by building unions. The federal government's building industry task force has offered "safe passage" to contract labourers in a
BY DEBRA PAYNE
LONDON — Many people on the Februray 15 London anti-war march hadn't been on a march before. But I had and let me tell you it was terrific.
I was on one of 25 buses that left Nottingham for London, along with 300 buses from
In a revelation that "raises questions about whether the [weapons of mass destruction] stockpiles attributed to Iraq still exist", Newsweek's March 3 issue reported that the Iraqi weapons chief who defected from the regime in 1995 told UN inspectors
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