Norm Dixon
For more than eight months, rich Western governments have refused to respond to successively more urgent appeals by aid agencies and the United Nations for emergency assistance to avert mass starvation in the drought-ravaged Sahel region
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On August 17, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) rejected new US allegations about Cuban and Venezuelan involvement in unrest in Bolivia. MAS deputy Antonio Peredo denied US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's claims that he had evidence that Cuba
Farida Iqbal
Thought voluntary student unionism was bad enough? Education minister Brendan Nelson has another nasty attack on education up his sleeve — RQF, or Research Quality Framework, which is designed to monitor the "quality" and "impact" of
Alex Miller
Eyewitness reports and CCTV footage leaked to Independent Television News (ITN) have contradicted initial police reports about the shooting to death on July 22 of Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes.
Sir Ian Blair, the
Beyond Chutzpah, the new book by Jewish-American anti-Zionist Norman Finkelstein, on the misuse of anti-Semitism by Zionism, has been blacklisted by a number of bookstores in the US. The book provides a critical analysis of pro-Zionist Harvard law
The following open letter, slightly abridged, was faxed by Villawood detainees to a refugee supporter on August 18. Authorities there prevented them from faxing it to the media.
We, detainees of Villawood Immigration Detention Centre, have seen the
For many of us it was no coincidence that the tragic London underground bombings took place while the G8 was wining and dining in Gleneagles — hypocritically using Africa as a smokescreen to desperately hide the key international issue — the
SYDNEY — On August 17, the University of NSW branch of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) hosted a barbecue for members of the construction union (CFMEU) working on the university's North Mall construction site.
Up to 100 UNSW staff
"Unless we make further reforms to industrial relations, to workplace relations, the current level of productivity which is underpinning our economic prosperity will not continue", PM John Howard told the John Laws radio show on August 10.
"We need
Owen Richards
We're crammed into a small kitchen, maybe three by four metres, with blue concrete walls. Lining the walls are shelves stocked with kitchen basics — string bags of potatoes, garlic cloves, carrots, pumpkins and melons. There's a
Sue Bolton, Melbourne
A union and community rally and picnic will be held in Mildura on September 3 to inform people in the Mallee Murray region about the federal government's plans to strip workers' rights. The event will encourage locals to join
Peter McGregor, lecturer in Media and Social Studies at the University of Western Sydney (UWS), took his redundancy on August 11 rather than, as he put it, "continue giving credibility to an institution that has adjusted its standards to fit Howard's
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