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Afghans must be able to stay!

SYDNEY — Around 60 people rallied in Auburn on September 5, to demand that the federal government allow Afghan refugees to remain in Australia. The government has been rejecting all applications by Afghan asylum seekers to renew their three-year

Workers to strike over workplace deaths

BY CHRIS LATHAM PERTH — Four-thousand members of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) are expected to strike on September 8, demanding safer working conditions in the construction industry, following citywide stop work

Is al Qaeda really a 'threat'?

BY ROHAN PEARCE Following the terrible 9/11 terrorist attacks, Washington seized on the shock and fear they produced to implement an aggressive renewed drive for world domination — under the banner of the "war on terror" — which otherwise would

Callan Park still under threat 'by neglect'

BY KATHLEEN SCOTT SYDNEY — "The people have saved Callan Park — the danger is now demolition by neglect", read the billboards dotted around the much-loved and valuable heritage site in Sydney's inner west. Callan Park is a vital resource, a

New WA peace network meets

BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI PERTH — In May, a split occurred in the Perth NOWaR Alliance, the main city-wide anti-war organising body. Since then those who left the NOWaR Alliance have built towards the formation of a WA Peace Network. The first "public"

IRAQ: Shiite leader assassinated

BY ROHAN PEARCE While it is still unclear who was behind the August 29 death of Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al Hakim, killed along with 100 Shiites by a car bomb as they left the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf, the assassination has proved to be another

Meeting discusses attacks on militant unions

BY CHRIS LATHAM FREMANTLE — Chris Cain, the recently elected Western Australian secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), spoke at an August 30 Politics in the Pub discussion on defending militant unions against the attacks of federal

IRAQ: Globalisation at gun point

BY DOUG LORIMER On August 31, Peter McPherson, a former Bank of America executive, close friend of US Vice-President Dick Cheney and, today, the top US economic "adviser" in Iraq, announced that the US-dominated Coalition Provisional Authority

What's behind Carr's plan to restructure

BY TOM FLANAGAN &MATT EGAN LISMORE — On September 17, teachers in NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia are scheduled to take strike action. Tough stands by state Labor governments against teachers' pay demands have provoked this

IRAQ: Outside extremists bring death and destruction

BY JOHN PILGER LONDON — The "liberation" of Iraq is a cruel joke on a stricken people. The Americans and British, partners in a great recognised crime, have brought down on the Middle East, and much of the rest of the world, the prospect of

Venceremos Victor (for Victor Jara)

Venceremos Victor, We shall overcomeVenceremos Victor, We shall overcomeThe never ending spectre, of your stirring New SongOur source and our protector, that keeps us so strong. Your mother's warm resilience, was scorched into your soulWith justice

A whistle-stop tour through the global justice movement

REVIEW BY DANNY FAIRFAX One No, Many Yeses: A Journey to the Heart of the Global Resistance MovementBy Paul KingsnorthEarthlight 2003$24.95 (Pb) Former deputy editor of the British Ecologist magazine Paul Kingsnorth set himself an ambitious task