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BURMA: West ignores victims of 'world's cruellest regime'

BY ANITA LUMBUS Earlier this year, before Washington's invasion of Iraq began, US President George Bush addressed US troops in Florida. "We seek more than the defeat of terror", he said. "We seek an advance of freedom and a world at peace. That is

Not the end of the line, yet

BY KIM LINDEN NEWCASTLE — Transport minister Michael Costa has backed a proposal to close part of the Newcastle rail line. The Socialist Alliance held a May 5 public meeting to discuss how the railway line can be saved. The plan would cut the

Don't let the bastards grind you down

BY KEVIN SUMMERS Military triumphalism is all about: in letters to the editors, opinion pieces, commentaries and indeed in the smug countenances of numerous politicians. "The war is won", they proclaim. "Saddam is gone and the anti-war protesters

On the box

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Flinders Uni collaborates with armaments company

BY ELICIA SAVVAS& JAMES FRAZER ADELAIDE — The Students Association of Flinders University (SAFU) has discovered that the Flinders Academic Senate intends to set up a research centre within the university's history department that will foster

Some fashions are hard to change

SYDNEY — On May 7, activists from Fair Wear, an organisation dedicated to stopping the exploitation of home-based outworkers, held their own exhibition, "The clothes she wears" at Circular Quay, opposite the Museum of Contemporary Art. "Fashions

CUBA: US employs weapons of mass migration

BY KAREN FLETCHER The manipulation of immigration policy has been one of the key strategies used by the US rulers in their 44-year campaign to strangle Cuba's attempt to build socialism. Bolstered by its "victory" in Iraq, Washington is now

Australian big business rewarded for war support

BY ALISON DELLIT Australian big business is beginning to get some of the benefits it expected from the war in Iraq, as Washington and US corporations start to scatter some crumbs. Prime Minister John Howard, the Australian wheat industry and one of

INDONESIA: Conference to discuss next steps for global peace movement

BY HERBERT DOCENA JAKARTA — Organisers of the "Iraq and the Global Peace Movement: What Next?" conference, which will be held here on May 19-21, expect attendance by as many as 200 delegates from the broad anti-war coalitions that have emerged in

How Hollingworth argues the case for a republic

BY ALISON DELLIT At the 1998 constitutional convention, which debated whether or not Australia should become a republic, then-Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane Peter Hollingworth spoke in favour of the minimalist republic model that was subsequently

Why North Korea fears Washington

Korea — the Unknown War: an Illustrated HistoryBy Jon Halliday and Bruce CumingsPenguin Books, 1990 REVIEWED BY CHRIS SLEE The 1950-53 Korean War of was one of the bloodiest in history. Between 3 million and 4 million Koreans were killed, out

PALESTINE: Why the 'road map' will not bring peace

BY AHMAD NIMER RAMALLAH — The public announcement of the US-backed "road map" a few days after the inauguration of Palestinian Prime Minister Abu Mazen's new cabinet has been met with vocal opposition from leading Palestinian political