BY ADAM BAKER
BRISBANE — "Australia has mistreated the Aboriginal people for more than 200 years. Why can't we show some compassion?", pleaded a resident opposed to the proposed Pinkenba refugee detention centre during a 100-strong meeting at
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US President George Bush thinks that the United States should be free to carry out war crimes in the name of "fighting terrorism".
Its war on Afghanistan and its declaration of intent to invade Iraq again are blatant examples of Washington's
BY JIM GREEN
The United States government formally withdrew from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty on June 13. The withdrawal is part of the US government's broader plans to upgrade its nuclear arsenal, enhance its nuclear "first-strike"
BY SARAH STEPHEN
On June 18, the federal government was forced to introduce into the Senate regulations it had drafted 12 days earlier to excise some 3500 islands from Australia's migration zone, islands which run from 200 kilometres south of
BY ALISTAIR DICKINSON
SYDNEY — The redevelopment of the former Australian Defence Industries (ADI) site near St Marys, in Sydney's outer western suburbs, is one step closer with the NSW Labor government's approval of the construction of a private
The Socialist Alliance in Western Australia is running a campaign to gain state electoral registration. We seek a lawyer who is prepared to give free legal advice on matters relating to electoral regulations. Please phone Nikki on 08 9218 9608 or
BY BRIGGS BOMBA
HARARE — Riot police and ruling party thugs on June 16 viciously attacked a peaceful commemoration of the 1976 Soweto uprising. More than 70 people were beaten and arrested. Munyaradzi Gwisai, Zimbabwe's only socialist member of
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — Natalia Scholastika was a student activist in Bandung, West Java, when the first arrest warrant against her was issued in 2001. A member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PRD), she had helped organise a protest by thousands
BY REYNOLD RASSI
By midday, June 18, more than 8 million Cubans — out of a population of around 13 million — had signed in support of the constitutional modification bill, proposed by the leaders of the island's mass organisations.
The bill
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
Since the failed April 11-14 coup against Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez, it has become even clearer that the move to topple the oil-rich Latin American country's democratically elected government was inspired from
BATHURST — Braving sub-zero overnight temperatures, students at the Bathurst campus of Charles Sturt University (CSU) have been camping outside the university management's office for two weeks to demand a reversal of funding cuts to the School of
BY ANN-LOUISE COLGAN
Over the past two decades, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) have undermined Africa's health by forcing governments to reduce the role of the state and cut government expenditure. These institutions have
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