TORONTO — Despite the Canadian state's proud role as junior partner to US imperialism and the federal government's repeated statements of loyalty to Washington's war efforts, the anti-war movement in Canada had been slow off the
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MELBOURNE — Fivo Freitas is 28 years old, he sought asylum in Australia after leaving East Timor in 1999. Now he is preparing for his application for asylum-seeker status to be rejected once again by the Refugee Review
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The wave of global anti-war protests on January 18 was a massive show of opposition by the world's working people — in particular those in the United States — to a US war on Iraq. The protests also signal that the US
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Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan women have joined in protest marches and actions defending their government. The opposition, a US-backed wealthy elite, has locked out workers from their factories, called for a new presidential election and
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When the government is preparing to wage a bloody war on the people of Iraq, which will result in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi people; When Australian corporate war-profiteers, like Qantas, BHP, and Dunlop, are set to
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Only a year after the worst bushfires in Australia's written history, another round of horrific bushfires is sweeping through south-eastern Australia. In Canberra, four people were killed, hundreds injured and more than 530 houses
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In the last weeks, further incidents of abuse of asylum seekers have come to light at detention centres on Christmas Island, Nauru and Woomera. An Iraqi woman, detained on Christmas Island with her husband and two children, was
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SAN FRANCISCO — In the largest anti-war protest since the peace marches of the Vietnam War era, some 200,000 people filled the streets here on January 18. Demanding "No war against Iraq", the demonstrators were a representative
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Australia's right to draw up or maintain non-profit-oriented social policies will be under threat from the "free trade" agreement (FTA) that the Coalition government seeks to make with President George Bush's US administration. Formal
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ANTARCTICA — People at the McMurdo Station in Antarctica — seven continents united — joined with hundreds of thousands of others around the world on January 18 to call for peace not war in Iraq. With the Antarctic mountain range in the
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Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. Includes the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ news. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Phone (02) 9565 5522. Visit
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LONDON — More than 800 delegates, representing around 60 local groups across the United Kingdom, gathered in London on January 11 to discuss the state of the anti-war movement and to plan the future actions of the Stop the War
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US President George Bush's "alliance of the willing" to attack Iraq is looking pretty thin: the governments of Britain's Tony Blair and John Howard don't make up for Washington's general lack of allies. Now, with Howard's popularity
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"Major national resources, including use of the military, should be urgently allocated to fighting the current bushfire crisis, instead of wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on sending troops to support the US war against
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The United States decided to use the 9/11 tragedy to reorganise the world. It has military bases on every continent. The largest of these is situated in one of the tiniest states: Qatar in the Persian Gulf. There are 189 member
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Greens I Bill Weller (“Write On”, GLW #521) asks why, if the Greens are doing so well, and are so progressive, would the Socialist Alliance (SA) field candidates against them? While the Greens play a valuable role in profiling
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The US National Youth and Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC) has issued a call for a national one-day student strike to demand "Books not bombs! Stop the war against Iraq" on March 5. US President George Bush's "administration is
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A firestorm swept through the western suburbs of Canberra on January 18, resulting in the deaths of four people, the destruction of 503 homes. Around 300 people had to be treated for burns and smoke inhalation and 60
News
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Centrelink and the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) are back in negotiations over a new "development agreement" after a rejection by 72% Centrelink staff of management's attempt to get an unpopular pay and conditions
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MELBOURNE — Recent emergency actions against war in Iraq show the depth of anger against the Australian government’s decision to back the impending war against Iraq. On January 19, more than 150 people joined a hastily
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MELBOURNE — At lunchtime on January 20, 200 women sat on the steps of Victorian Parliament House wearing bras on the outside of their t-shirts in protest against war on Iraq. The action was organised by the prominent actor
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MELBOURNE — A showdown between the Victorian Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) and construction giant Grocon has been averted at the final hour. On January 19, a stop-work meeting of 600 Grocon workers
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DARWIN — "We come to work standing, walking and talking, but with the current safety conditions, we could leave work in a pine box", the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) organiser Alan Paton, told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly. Workers on
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GEELONG — For several years, Victorians from all sorts of backgrounds have made an annual trek to Avalon, near Geelong, to view the acrobatics of dozens of international aircraft. It has become a family weekend for hundreds of
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BRISBANE — The Queensland Labor government's department of state development has given formal notice to protesters camped outside the site of the Narangba nuclear irradiation plant, now under construction, that they will be
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MELBOURNE — For the second time, unions and the community will rally in support of Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union state secretary Martin Kingham, who is facing contempt charges against the Royal Commission into
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Dispute at stadium BRISBANE — Completion of the $350 million Lang Park stadium redevelopment in time for the Brisbane vs Newcastle rugby league blockbuster in late May is in doubt because of a looming industrial dispute. Developers involved in
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SYDNEY — Two hundred anti-war protesters gathered at Cawper Wharf, Woolloomooloo, on January 23, in a stormy protest against Australian involvement in a war on Iraq. The protesters were responding to a call put out by anti-war
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NEWCASTLE — Miners at the United coal mine 16 kilometres west of Singleton and several other pits in the Hunter region are preparing to step-up industrial action to improve wages and conditions. "At United, the miners accepted a
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Bright spark "He rang me Wednesday morning. The first thing we talked about was the bushfires. He didn't like the name bushfires. He said can't you call them natural fires. I said that's a bit hard, George. We're very used to the bush here. He said
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PERTH — More than 2500 people rallied outside the Western Australian parliament on January 19 to oppose the war on Iraq and the “sea swap” agreement between the Australian and US governments. The rally was organised by the Fremantle
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SYDNEY — The Sydney International Women's Day Collective, which has been meeting since November last year, has voted overwhelmingly to organise an IWD march and rally on March 8 around the theme of "Peace, Justice, Diversity,
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MELBOURNE — More than 3000 Electrical Trades Union (ETU) members met at Dallas Brookes Hall on January 22 to endorse a new enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA). The EBA, negotiated between the ETU and the main employer
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A new email discussion list has been started to provide a forum for readers of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly to exchange ideas and discuss news items, issues and reviews covered in GLW. While it will not replace the role of the letters in the Write On section
A new email discussion list has been started to provide a forum for readers of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly to exchange ideas and discuss news items, issues and reviews covered in GLW.
Analysis
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In May 2001, a distressed Marilyn Reidy explained how she found out that HIH had collapsed. Reidy and her husband, who has been totally incapacitated by a brain tumour, were dependent on his HIH insurance cheques to survive; when Reidy tried to cash
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Police raided the Kuala Lumpur office of malaysiakini.com, a progressive and independent web site, and seized computers on January 20. Ten hours later, while a protest vigil was being held outside the office, the site was up again,
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BUENOS AIRES — Even before Lucio "Lucho" Gutierrez was inaugurated as president of Ecuador on January 15, he had made it very clear what he planned to do. "I am determined to change this nation or die trying", said Gutierrez
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JAKARTA — On January 22, more than 300 journalists and other observers crammed into a room in the Struggle Museum to hear representatives of several political and social movement organisations announce the formation of a new
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Wang Fanxi died in Leeds, England, on December 30. Born in 1907, Wang became politically active during the anti-imperialist upsurge in China in the 1920s and participated in the revolutionary communist movement there for almost
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Tens of thousands of Turkish Cypriots in recent weeks have laid to rest the question of whether the so-called "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" represents their aspirations or is an outside imposition by the military ruling
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BUENOS AIRES — Two separate delegations travelled to the northern province of Tucuman, one of the poorest provinces in Argentina, in January. Each represented the deep gulf that divides Argentinian society and politics.
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An international campaign against the Hong Kong government's attempt to introduce an anti-union and anti-civil rights law in the guise of combating “sedition” and “subversion” have received strong support from trade unions
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Human rights group Amnesty International has called on the US government to "end the legal black hole into which it has thrown hundreds of detainees in Guantanamo Bay" in Cuba. A statement issued by the Canadian section of AI on January 10 criticised
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PORTO ALEGRE — This city is buzzing as more and more people arrive each day for the third annual gathering of the World Social Forum (WSF), being held here January 23-28. Once again, tens of thousands of global justice
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"We have burnt our boats. There is no turning back", Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared in a national broadcast on January 6. "We will carry on consolidating and deepening the revolution", the radical pro-poor president
Culture
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Lord of the Rings: The Two TowersDirected by Peter JacksonWritten by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair and Peter JacksonStarring Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen and Viggo Mortensen. REVIEW BY LAURA DURKAY The corporate media were quick to
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Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century LifeBy Eric HobsbawmAllen Lane, 2002448 pages, $55 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON It was almost better than sex, thought Eric Hobsbawm during the massive but last legal march of the German Communist Party (KPD)
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REVIEW BY ALEX SALMON The Quiet AmericanBased on the book by Graham GreeneDirected by Philip NoyceStarring Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser and Do Thi Hai YenShowing at major cinemas The Quiet American is a dramatised account of the CIA's role in
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SYDNEY — A powerful new anti-war documentary is being screened by Socialist Alliance. Not in My Name tells the story of the US-led "war on terrorism" you have not been allowed to see on tellie. It asks, "why is dropping bombs on