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Mothers dumped with it all

BY JO WILLIAMS Australian women are having less children than ever before. Not only are more women childless, the one-child family is the fastest growing family type in Australia. While much of the resulting talk of a "fertility crisis" is based

CUBA: Chomsky condemns US attacks

BY NORM DIXON Noam Chomsky, the distinguished US political scientist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, has attended the 25th Assembly of the Latin American Social Science Council. Addressing the conference on October 29, also

Howard plays the fear and race cards again

The federal Coalition government is clearly using the hysteria around the deportation of Willie Brigitte for alleged "terrorist" activities and the arrival of a small boatload of asylum seekers at Melville Island to prepare the most favourable terms

CUBA: Washington's objective is to "cause hunger, desperation and overthrow the government"

BY RAISA PAGES Some call it an embargo, for others it's a blockade. But neither word correctly reflects the magnitude of the actions carried out by the US government against Cuba since 1959. US Secretary of State Cristian Herter used the correct

Longgrass rocks

BY JUERGEN MULZER DARWIN — It has long been known that Darwin's Longgrass community is home to some fantastic musical talent, so it is not surprising that the launch of the first Longgrass Live CD at the third annual Freedom to Sleep Festivities

IRAQ: The initial stages of a guerrilla war

BY TARIQ ALI Some weeks ago, Pentagon inmates were invited to a special in-house showing of an old movie. It was the Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo's anti-colonial classic, initially banned in France. One assumes the purpose of the screening

Write on: Letters to the editor

Anti-war movement and union action In GLW #560, Bryan Sketchley argues that the massive worldwide anti-war protests went unheeded by US imperialism and that the anti-war movement needs to be reoriented away from mass street protests towards

New ASIO laws used for first time

BY DALE MILLS SYDNEY — The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) Legislation Amendment (Terrorism) Act, which was passed on June 26, has been used for the first time to arrest and question a person. The man's name has not been

14 asylum seekers 'threaten' national security

BY EMMA MURPHY& LESLIE RICHMOND Fourteen men claiming to be Kurds from Turkey, four Indonesian crew and one small fishing boat drifting into shore on Melville Island, 80km from Darwin — that's all it took for the government to declare "national

Fox to speak to socialists

MELBOURNE — As the first leg of his tour of Australia, Scottish Socialist Party member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) Colin Fox will be speaking at the conference Resisting the Empire: Building Alternatives to War, Racism and Imperialism at

Building industry taskforce gets first conviction

BY MARGARITA WINDISCH MELBOURNE — John Setka, vice-president of the Victorian branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), was found guilty on November 3 of issuing a threat against a project manager for construction