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Write on: letters to the editor

Call for solidarity The situation in Gaza and the West Bank is deteriorating day after day due to Israel's practices against our people. Our children cannot sleep well, hearing the shooting and shelling at night and during the day. They cannot go

PALESTINE: Grassroots call for armed UN protection force

BY ADAM HANIEH RAMALLAH, WEST BANK — As Florida recounts distracted the international media, Israeli tanks and helicopters continued to bombard towns and villages throughout the West Bank and Gaza. Following the bombing of a settler bus, Israel

South African People's Poet fights on

BY DOROTHY FLYNN The Pretoria High Court's November 10 rejection of famed anti-apartheid poet Mzwakhe Mbuli's appeal demonstrates the difficulty of dismantling apartheid, especially when the system's engineers and foot soldiers have been retained.

Action updates

Rally demands end to Israeli repression ADELAIDE — Around 150 people rallied here on November 29 on the steps of Parliament House to demand an immediate end to the brutal Israeli repression of the Palestinian people. Speakers included

Bail Up!

SHORT STORY BY CRAIG CORMICK I went down to my local bank the other day — only to find it had been closed down. A large "For Lease" sign hung in the window and a small card on the door informed me where the closest branch not yet closed down

Rage to release Renegades

BY RICHARD PITHOUSE Rage Against The Machine has recorded an album of classic socially and politically charged hip-hop, rock and punk songs. Rage attacks these songs in its typical hard-edged, unconventional fashion. Renegades (Epic) is a

'Broad Left' sinks left motions

BY SARAH CLEARY PERTH — The NUS West state conference was held here on November 26. The Labor Party right faction, Unity, had the majority of delegates. Annette Haeker, former Murdoch University education vice-president was elected to the

ALP rorts: just the tip of the iceberg

BY SUE BOLAND The number of senior ALP figures implicated in vote rorting and other shady internal party practices is increasing as middle and lower level ALP figures spill their guts to the Queensland Criminal Justice Commission inquiry headed by

Feminists take on Chivas

BY KYLIE MOON Sexist advertisements marketing Chivas Regal whiskey are the latest to be targeted by an anti-sexist graffiti campaign. Chivas says it is lapping up the “extra publicity”. The advertisement features a woman, minus her

STP workers: 'We stay till they pay'

BY STEPHEN O'BRIEN NEWCASTLE — A photo of STP bosses Stephen and Bradley Weeks with the caption "wanted for unpaid workers' entitlements of over $3 million" is appearing around Newcastle as part of the support campaign for 220 workers owed money

Students organise global justice conference

BY DANIEL OOI SYDNEY — Student activists have begun preparations for the Student Solidarity Conference to be held in Sydney next April. The conference will bring together solidarity activists from around the country, and the Asia-Pacific region,

Labor students take NUS NSW branch

BY PETER ROBSON SYDNEY — “Student organisers don't need to live in the areas that they represent, or attend the campuses that they organise. Regional organisers shouldn't be asked to live in the regions they organise, it would be like