By Nurullah Ozbek
On May 31, the trial of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan will begin in Turkey. Ocalan faces the death penalty for "treason" — that is, for leading the Kurdish people's struggle for their national rights. The
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A day in the life on Georgia's death row #2
By Brandon Astor Jones
Georgia prison administrators routinely torture prisoners with water. Situated near the exercise yard's door — which is open more often than not — the shower is reduced to
Lessons of the Longford gas explosion
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — At the end of April, final submissions were presented to the royal commission into the gas explosion and fire at Esso's Longford facility in the Latrobe Valley. The Victorian
By Bronwen Beechey
ADELAIDE — More than 2000 people opposed to the proposed Pelican Point power station rallied in Semaphore on May 9 at a protest organised by Community Action for Pelican Point (CAPP). CAPP has been picketing the power station
The following statement was issued by the Zapatista National Liberation Front in Mexico on March 20. The bombardment decided on by the new lords of war and money led by the forces of NATO is not aimed at protecting the rights of the Kosovar people,
Union leader arrested in Nigeria
In the early hours of April 25, Lagos National Union of Journalists leader Lanre Arogundade was taken from his house by plain-clothes police. He is being held at police headquarters in the Oyo state capital, Ibadan.
By Jim Green
The federal budget has angered environmentalists. Funding for environment programs and groups has been reduced, some funding has been tied to the sale of Telstra and funding for environment groups will be conditional on their
Newcastle Trades Hall endorses Indonesia solidarity
NEWCASTLE — Newcastle Trades Hall endorsed the May 22 international day of solidarity with East Timor and Indonesia at its meeting on May 13. The meeting was addressed by Action in Solidarity
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Long-time union and environment activist Davey Thomason has suffered police harassment and may have been sacked from his position as an organiser with the SA branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy
Anti-nuclear campaigning
Greg Adamson's anti-nuclear movement history is wonderful, so many memories come back. Every paragraph deserves to be amplified. Could you provide a special space for readers' recollections?
The reference to the Perth
Protesters blockade Timbarra road
TENTERFIELD — More than 100 protesters opposed to Ross Mining's Timbarra goldmine have set up three blockades on the access road between Tenterfield and the mine site.
The blockade is a combined effort by
By Lisa Macdonald
At a day-long congress on May 13, the German Greens voted to support NATO's bombing of Serbia and Kosova. Delegates voted 444-318 for a motion backed by Green foreign minister Joschka Fischer and the party's national executive.
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