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'Make refugee rights a political issue'
BRISBANE — "The best thing we can do to help the refugees is to make refugee rights a key political issue", Aladdin Sisalem, the last asylum seeker to be held on Manus Island, told a public meeting of
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US Greens
In response to Tennessee reader Howard Switzer's complaints (Write On, GLW #596) about my comments on the US Greens in my article in "Democrats sabotage Nader-Camejo campaign" (GLW #595), the main point of my article was the fact that the
Jenny Long, Sydney
As part of its campaign against new job-threatening multi-year contracts to clean schools and other public buildings announced in June by the NSW Labor government, the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union (LHMU) announced
Norman Brewer, Berlin
On August 30, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of eastern Germany's cities for the fourth Monday in a row to protest the plans of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democratic-Greens coalition government
Eva Cheng
Just after midnight on August 18, five grassroots organisers of the Communist Party of India Marxist-Leninist (Liberation), retired after yet another busy day in the party's Paliganj local office, near Patna, the capital city of the
Bill Mason, Brisbane
The Socialist Alliance candidate for the federal seat of Brisbane, Coral Wynter, has issued a challenge to National Party candidate Major Nick Withycombe to debate the Iraq war and truth in politics.
The challenge follows
David Zirin
The modern Olympic games began in 1898 as a place for imperial rivals, in the process of carving up the world from Cuba to the Congo to the Philippines, to wave flags and use sports to whip up a nationalist frenzy. Since those times,
On September 3, the Craig Johnston Trade Union Support Committee was formed and issued a statement saying that no trade unionist should be imprisoned for taking part in an industrial dispute.
The committee is calling for the immediate release of
Jon Lamb, Darwin
On September 2, a cross-union meeting of academic and general staff at Charles Darwin University voted not to accept the university's offer of a 10% wage rise, and discussed taking industrial action.
Up to 1500 staff members may
Chris Slee, Melbourne
Donna Mulhearn, an Australian volunteer aid worker who has lived and worked in Baghdad for six months, and who visited Fallujah while the city was under attack by US forces, spoke to 50 people at a public meeting organised by
Fred Fuentes
Mass protests are shaking Bolivia, forcing interim President Carlos Mesa to back down from his threat not to authorise any new bills until his hydrocarbon law was passed, unamended and without discussion.
Mesa had claimed that the
Norm Dixon
On August 30, United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan reported to the Security Council's 15 members that, despite a failure to meet "some of the core commitments it has made", the government of Sudan had made "some progress" in
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