鈥淭he intense fighting in southern Iraq is entering its fourth day, bringing pressure on the Iraqi government to lead the country out of its plunge back into the prolonged sectarian violence of the past. The ceasefire announced by Iraq鈥檚 biggest sectarian militia last August, appears to be in tatters as Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki struggles to contain the country鈥檚 Shiite warlords.鈥
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Where in the world could a jury find in favour of someone, only to have a judge deliver a decision opposite to the jury鈥檚 finding? Well, this has happened in NSW and the victim is Mamdouh Habib, best known for being imprisoned by the US military without charges at its Guantanamo Bay naval base, before being released and flown home to Australia in January 2005.
'Holocaust'
Jirri Booth's arguments (Write On, GLW #745) regarding the impermissibility of using the word "holocaust" to describe anything other than "the victims of Nazi genocide" are spurious. On February 29, Israeli deputy defence minister
Following the first Fossil Fools聮 Day actions, it聮s a good time to look at how the day came together nationally and how we can make the next Fossil Fools聮 Day 聴 and all future actions of the environment movement 聴 even more successful.
Aboriginal legal aid services are to have their funding cut for the 13th year in a row, despite an election promise by the ALP that a federal Labor government would increase their funding, Trevor Christian, the director of the NSW/ACT Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, told the March 31 Sydney Morning Herald.
At least 100 people attended the Palestine: Global Perspective conference, held at the Victorian State Library on March 29.
On April 1, the Sydney May Day Committee voted unanimously to accept a Unions NSW proposal to shift the traditional May Day march and rally from the first Sunday in May to Saturday May 3.
We all celebrated our fantastic victory in driving the miserable anti-worker Liberal government out of office. However the fact remains that we still have a lot of work to do to turn back the Howard agenda.
As part of a global day of action in solidarity with Tibetan protesters, 65 actions took place across Australia on March 31.
On April 2, after much dialogue with the Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner government, agricultural producers suspended for 30 days a strike that began on March 11.
The Venezuelan national oil company PDVSA has closed deals with several European cities to deliver cheap fuel to socially deprived areas, Lenin Medina of the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry told a European Left conference in Paris on March 29. The
Canterbury-Bankstown public school teachers will demonstrate outside Premier Morris Iemma鈥檚 Lakemba office on April 10 to express their outrage at the state Labor government鈥檚 refusal to re-negotiate a state-wide schools staffing agreement.
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