Middle East 'road map'
The article by Ahmad Nimer in GLW #537 does not present any solution to the Middle East crisis at all. His claim that, "The overriding priority of the road map is clearly ... a return to the status quo that existed prior to
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MELBOURNE — At the national Socialist Alliance conference, held on May 10-11, the delegates included a high proportion of trade unionists. These included former Victorian secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
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In late March, Books Not Bombs national coordinator Kylie Moon met with NSW police officers to organise a march permit for an anti-war protest in Sydney, due to be held on April 2. Not only did the police refuse the permit to march,
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Ever since the federal government announced the higher education budget for 2003, a war of words has raged across the mass media. The rhetoric is set to heighten over the coming months. That's because the government has made it
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The Socialist Alliance is a multi-tendency socialist party which welcomes and protects the right to campaign for a diversity of political positions within the framework of its broad socialist objectives. The second national
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When Laci Peterson's mutilated body washed up on a California shore on April 13, Americans were shocked and appalled. Cries for justice were greeted with the swift arrest of her husband Scott, who was charged with her murder — and with the "murder"
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Usually, when federal minister for union-bashing Tony Abbott wants to introduce new legislation, he likes to boast. The problem with this, however, is that it allows opposition to his attacks to build up, pressuring senators to reject
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In his May 13 budget speech, treasurer Peter Costello announced a 10-year package of reforms to Australia's higher education system, Our Universities: Backing Australia's Future. This package, the end result of the 12-month Higher
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SYDNEY — On May 18, when activists from the Bankstown branch of the Socialist Alliance went to the office at the top of the arcade, they found the place had been sealed off by the police. After some enquiring, they learnt what had
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MELBOURNE — More than 300 people packed the Brunswick Town Hall for Vic Little's memorial service on May 20. Born in Mildura in 1914, the son of a poor mining family, Vic knew from an early age on what "struggling" meant.
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GLW #537 reported on a motion passed at the May 10-11 Socialist Alliance national conference. Regrettably, the final section of the motion was omitted. This is the full motion as passed: "Conference endorses these eight points: "1. We want the
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Still in the early stages of their pattern bargaining campaign, Victorian metal workers have already made major advances towards winning a 36-hour work week. Around 100 companies have now signed the Australian Manufacturing
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On May 14, Palestinians and solidarity activists around the world marked the 55th anniversary of al Nakba — the Catastrophe. Al Nakba reached its climax during the events of May 1948, when the State of Israel was established on
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CANBERRA — Anti-war and anti-corporate activists in the ACT have begun organising protests to take place against the Defence and Industry 2003 conference, which will be held in the National Convention Centre on June 24-26. The
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During a national phone hook-up on May 24, refugee rights activists decided to launch a campaign against the threatened deportation of Iranian refugees. On April 29, Iranians in the Baxter detention centre were told by the immigration department
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CANBERRA — Rank-and-file militants in Members First have done well in the Community and Public Sector Union national office election. The results indicate that large numbers of public sector workers do want a union that once
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HOBART — Amid reports of increased cases of asthma from the thick palls of smoke that cover much of Tasmania during the forestry "re-generation burns" comes an altogether more disturbing story. In April, Australia's biggest
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MELBOURNE — In a handout to the insurance companies, Victorian Premier Steve Bracks' Labor government has introduced new laws restricting the right to sue for personal injuries. Under the new Wrongs and Limitations of Actions Act
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CANBERRA — Speaking at an anti-war forum held on May 20, "human shield" Ruth Russell described Australian Prime Minister John Howard and US President George Bush as "armchair killers" who don't have to face the consequences of
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SYDNEY — On May 19, two dozen activists, most members of the UTS queer group, gathered outside the Queen Victoria Building to call for the NSW parliament to pass a bill that would equalise the age of consent for gay and heterosexual sex. The bill
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On May 19, ABC television's Four Corners program presented a damning expose of the horrors that went on behind the razor wire of the Woomera immigration detention centre before its closure in mid-April. In the first half of 2000,
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SYDNEY — Solidarity actions at the Arncliffe factory at the centre of a 10-week dispute over wages and conditions have intensified. Unionists have joined with other supporters to attempt to stop daily attempts by trucks and a bus
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Emergency pickets were held across Australia on May 23, as part of an international day of action for democracy and justice in Aceh. Protests were held in Adelaide, Darwin, Melbourne, Newcastle and Sydney, as well as in the US, Germany, Holland,
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Most rational response "Russian President Vladimir Putin openly mocks America's failed efforts to find chemical, biological or nuclear weapons in Iraq... It doesn't matter... even if Iraq proves utterly free of WMD — or if it merely possesses a
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MELBOURNE — Part of the May 22 national day of protest called by the National Union of Students (NUS) against the Howard government's education "reforms", announced in its May 13 budget, 330 students marched in protest from
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On May 21, I was arrested for attending a protest in Jakarta. Australian Books not Bombs convener Kylie Moon, South Korean student activist Yung-Chan Choi and South African anti-war activist Lydia Cairncross were also arrested. The
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BY CHRIS SLEE& GEOFF SPENCER MELBOURNE — Strikes and lockouts continue at a number of Melbourne factories as members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union campaign for new enterprise agreements which include a 36-hour work week. After
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The May 12 terrorist attacks on the al Hamra, Jadawal and Vinnell compounds in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, which killed more than 90 people, were not merely assaults on "symbols" of the imperialist West. The bombers were also
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The Ruckus Society has produced the War Profiteers Deck of cards to expose some of the real war criminals in Washington's endless war of terror against the Third World. This is no Sunday bridge club. These are individuals and institutions that stack
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TORONTO — The Ontario provincial government has suffered a serious setback in its attempts to criminalise resistance to its neoliberal policies. After four gruelling months, the court case against three anti-poverty organisers of
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PARIS — Following the success of the massive one-day general strike on May 13, the government of French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin is in deep trouble. The May 13 strike, the largest since 1995, was in response to the
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US President George Bush met with 11 "exiled Cuban activists" (as the US corporate media described them) at the White House on May 20 — the 101st anniversary of the adoption by Cuba of a constitution which guaranteed Washington
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Father S. Guy de Fontgalland, a Sri Lankan Catholic priest and author of Social Development and Poverty in the Plantation in Sri Lanka, recently visited Melbourne. He spoke to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly about the situation faced by Tamil
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Petition now has 3797 signatures As reported in 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly #536, on May 1, 160 intellectuals and artists — including Nobel Prize winners Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rigoberta Menchu, Aldolfo Perez Esquivel and Nadine Gordimer — launched an
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PUERTO RICO — The people of Vieques have won an important victory over the US Navy. After six decades of struggle — including mass mobilisations and mass civil disobedience actions over the past four years — the navy was
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More than 10,000 piqueteros (unemployed workers) marched in Buenos Aires on May 14, in a massive show of support for the workers who had occupied the Brukman textile plant. The occupiers were violently evicted by police on April
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On May 22, the United Nations Security Council adopted a US-sponsored resolution which approved the Anglo-American military occupation of Iraq, lifted UN economic sanctions imposed in August 1990 and put revenue from sales of Iraqi
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HAVANA — Visitors experiencing Cuba for the first time cannot help but remark upon how the economic and political pressures being imposed on the country seem untenable. What would be possible in a just world, given Cuban society's
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On May 19, tens of thousands of Iraqis took to the streets of Baghdad. They chanted, "We will not sell this country", and demanded that the US military end its occupation of the country. It was the latest sign that Washington's
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JAKARTA — As Indonesian troops launched a full-scale military offensive in Aceh, there have been protests in other parts of Indonesia, especially Jakarta. Protest and solidarity actions have been organised by the Solidarity
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JAKARTA — Following the breakdown of last-ditch talks in Tokyo between the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), Jakarta on May 19 launched a "security restoration operation" in Aceh — an all-out military
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BY DALE T. McKINLEY JOHANNESBURG — Two years ago I sat with veteran African National Congress leader Walter Sisulu in his modest Johannesburg home to talk about his days as a youthful ANC leader in the 1940s and 1950s. Although I had briefly met
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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) 9564 1277. Visit
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REVIEW BY HELEN REDMOND The Life of David GaleDirected by Alan ParkerWith Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet and Laura LinneyAt major cinemas Now should be the best time ever for a Hollywood drama that exposes the barbarity of the death penalty in the
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REVIEW BY NICK FREDMAN Matrix ReloadedWritten and directed by Larry and Andy WachowskiWith Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence FishburneAt cinemas every-bloody-where Recently, the US anti-war coalition Not In Our Name issued a leaflet,
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This garden has been in a drought for a long time,Once you could take hope from this garden,But for a long time you stole it,Now it is dry,No-one is thinking about the dying flowers,No-one is thinking about why children panic in their sleep at
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MELBOURNE — The Melbourne Workers Theatre and the Canto Coro choir present 1975 — A Populist Opera. Irene Vela's work explores the tumultuous events in Australia's political history that took place in that year, including the sacking of Prime
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — On May 13 at the Rio Rancho High School — where, in response to the performance of an anti-war poem, the school's poetry club was disbanded and student poets were "investigated" and their poems
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MELBOURNE — Community radio station 3CR is holding its annual radiothon from June 2 to June 15. This year's theme is "3CR — the voice of dissent, a voice for peace" and the station is hoping to raise $130,000. 3CR has