BY EVA CHENG
Despite being the biggest in the US energy business and seventh biggest among all US firms before its December 2 collapse, Enron had not paid income tax in four of the five years before 2000, according to Citizens for Tax Justice.
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BY SIMON BUTLER
SYDNEY — The February 12 refugee rights convergence on Canberra has been given a boost by decisions taken in Sydney, Wollongong and Melbourne to organise buses for activists to the protest.
The socialist youth group Resistance
Firmly inhuman
"The approach I have taken in relation to these matters requires a degree of firmness, which sometimes people think demonstrates a lack of humanity. But I think your humanity has a greater potential to be evil than if you remain
A report in the January 26 British Medical Journal reveals that
Argentina is running out of medical supplies and faces rising drug prices
as the country sinks deeper into economic crisis.
The report quotes Juan Carr, who heads Red Solidaria
BY SARAH STEPHEN
There is a huge range of refugee solidarity web sites popping up
every day, reflecting the broadening of support and sympathy for the plight
of people trying to find a safe haven in Australia.
Children out of Detention
REVIEW BY TRISH CORCORAN
The Boys From BallymoreBy Anthony BrownPenguin Books Australia, 2001355 pages, $23
Liam O'Brien returns to Ballymore after living in Australia, he remembers. Ballymore is a small town in Tipperary, Ireland. Liam finds the
BY MARK ABBERTON
CANBERRA — On January 26-27, hundreds of people from Aboriginal and other communities across Australia came together outside Old Parliament House to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. The gathering
Refugee rights protests
HOBART — Hundreds of people signed petitions and tooted their car horns in support of refugees' rights at a series of lunchtime vigils, organised by Resistance, outside immigration department offices between January 27
BY EVA CHENG
The United States National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) officially declared on November 26 that the US had lapsed into recession, and had been in that situation since March 2001. Soon after, the capitalist media and mainstream
Act Now to End War and Racism — ANSWER held a rally on February 2 to demand "Declare war on unemployment, poverty and mass layoffs not on the people of Afghanistan" and "Money for jobs, education and health care not war in Afghanistan". Visit
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
PERTH — "The way we treat our most vulnerable and powerless will mark our society for years to come", Carmen Lawrence, ALP MP for Fremantle and the shadow minister for indigenous affairs, told 600 refugee-rights protesters on
BY EVA CHENG
"If I rob a bank, they throw me in jail. But if they rob me, then they say that's OK", screamed a protester who had joined thousands of others outside the office of Argentina's President Eduardo Duhalde on January 11 to demand
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