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Complaints about the police at Sydney M1?

BY DALE MILLS On the M1 demonstration in Sydney on May 1 2002 a number of concerns were expressed about the police. Individuals who have complaints should date and sign a written statement detailing the nature of their complaint. Please be

On the box

The Truth About Maori — An engaging film about the Maori identity. SBS, Friday, May 10, 1.30pm. Movie: Leaf On A Pillow — The rough and tumble daily life of three homeless kids battling to survive on the streets of Java. SBS, Wednesday, May

Brisbane protests on M1

BY TIM STEWART & JULIE GJENGEDAL BRISBANE — More than 400 people protested on May 1, as two separate actions demanded workers' and refugees' rights and freedom from corporate tyranny. Two hundred activists arrived at the city's main immigration

Write on: Letters to the editor

Melbourne M1 "Hundreds of ordinary workers were unable to access the building for several hours", stated the Melbourne Herald Sun's May 2 editorial (headed "A misguided mob"), referring to the May 1 blockade of the immigration department offices at

'No war' May Day

BY EMMA CLANCY PERTH — "How long will the US continue to cover up Israel's war crimes?" Ali Kazak, head of the Palestinian Delegation in Australia, asked M1 protesters. "We cannot have two sets of principles, one for Israel and one for everyone

Health care and income protection for all

Health care and income protection for all Despite the federal government's $35 million handout to insurance fund United Medical Protection in March, on April 29 UMP’s directors announced its provisional liquidation. The collapse of the

PALESTINE: 'Intifada will continue until independence!'

BY AHMED NIMER RAMALLAH — One month into Israel's all-out assault on the Palestinian people of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Palestinian activists are attempting to address questions that are being more sharply posed than at any time in the

PALESTINE: Israel covers up ethnic cleansing

BY ROHAN PEARCE "It should be clear to us that there is no room in Palestine for these two peoples. No 'development' will bring us to our goal of independent nationhood in this small country. Without the Arabs, the land will become wide and

UNITED STATES: A creative way to define democracy

BY LANCE SELFA CHICAGO — People all over Latin America must have let out a hearty laugh when they heard US national security adviser Condoleezza Rice lecture Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez about his post-coup need to "uphold constitutional

IRAQ: CIA picks war criminal to replace Hussein

BY NORM DIXON Iraq's President Saddam Hussein is the “only leader in the world to have used chemical weapons against his own people” — this has become a mantra repeated by US President George Bush, British PM Tony Blair, Bush's political

CUBA: Mexican president offers goat

BY KAREN FLETCHER HAVANA — It's every host's nightmare: US President George Bush refuses to come if Cuban President Fidel Castro is there, and there will be the usual pack of terrorists and hired assassins who try to murder Castro whenever

PAKISTAN: Public sector workers' strike

BY LISA MACDONALD A strike of public sector workers, launched on April 15 in Quetta, Baluchistan, continues to paralyse life in the city. Led by the militant Baluchistan Civil Secretariat Staff Association (BCSSA), the strike involves paramedics,