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Global solidarity with refugees

BY IGGY KIM SYDNEY — Refugee rights campaigners across the world have protested against the Australian government’s refugee policy. In Auckland, New Zealand on January 26, activists picketed the Australian consulate. A similar picket is

UNITED STATES: Black Power leader framed

BY KEEANGA-YAHMATTA TAYLOR Jamil al Amin, the former 1960s Black Power leader known as H. Rap Brown, is on trial for his life in Atlanta. Al Amin is accused of shooting two Fulton County sheriff's deputies, killing one. Prosecutors claim that al

Write On: Letters to the editor

Lie SBS TV has just shown a documentary on General Douglas MacArthur which referred to the atom bomb as ending World War II. That statement is perhaps the worst lie inflicted on humanity (because it's so widely believed): that we had to burn 64,602

Close the detention centres!

BY SARAH STEPHEN As international outrage and Australian protests grow, the federal Coalition government is increasingly defensive about the horrific impact of it's refugee policy. The more people who join protests now, the greater the possibility

ZIMBABWE: Democracy movement debates sanctions

BY PATRICK BOND HARARE — Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, who led the national liberation fighters to win independence from the white Rhodesian colonists in 1980, is facing a presidential vote in March. His main opponent is the Movement for

and ain't I a woman: Abortion access for all women

and ain't I a woman: Abortion access for all women Many believe the myth that abortion is easily accessible to all women in Australia. It is not. For women living in rural areas, abortion is extremely expensive and disruptive. In Queensland,

'US imperialism and global corporate domination go hand in hand'

The following call for a national student mobilisation during the January 31-February 4 meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) was issued by Students for Global Justice. It has been slightly abridged. Every year, 1000 top business leaders come

Linking war and globalisation

BY LUKE FOMIATTI & MELANIE SJOBERG SYDNEY — “This meeting to discuss war and globalisation occurs against the backdrop of US President George Bush's 'state of the nation' speech”, anti-war activist Tara Povey told 60 people at Trades

Museworthy: The Wept

Museworthy: The Wept "the last edge of the knife" — Pablo Nerudathe persuasiveness of the shade in Summerthe judgement of the treesthe blue extraordinarythe purple cord joining me to my motherthe all-motheredthe future-lossthe hidden under the

UNITED STATES: Corporate rip-offs

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.

Loose Cannons

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

Transport organised to Canberra demonstration

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