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BY CHRIS SLEE Father S. Guy de Fontgalland, a Sri Lankan Catholic priest and author of Social Development and Poverty in the Plantation in Sri Lanka, recently visited Melbourne. He spoke to Green Left Weekly about the situation faced by Tamil
BY LIAM MITCHELL SYDNEY — Solidarity actions at the Arncliffe factory at the centre of a 10-week dispute over wages and conditions have intensified. Unionists have joined with other supporters to attempt to stop daily attempts by trucks and a bus
BY ROBERTO BARRETO PUERTO RICO — The people of Vieques have won an important victory over the US Navy. After six decades of struggle — including mass mobilisations and mass civil disobedience actions over the past four years — the navy was
BY ROHAN PEARCE On May 19, tens of thousands of Iraqis took to the streets of Baghdad. They chanted, "We will not sell this country", and demanded that the US military end its occupation of the country. It was the latest sign that Washington's
BY NICK EVERETT On May 21, I was arrested for attending a protest in Jakarta. Australian Books not Bombs convener Kylie Moon, South Korean student activist Yung-Chan Choi and South African anti-war activist Lydia Cairncross were also arrested. The
BY NIKOLAI HADDAD On May 14, Palestinians and solidarity activists around the world marked the 55th anniversary of al Nakba — the Catastrophe. Al Nakba reached its climax during the events of May 1948, when the State of Israel was established on
Middle East 'road map' The article by Ahmad Nimer in GLW #537 does not present any solution to the Middle East crisis at all. His claim that, "The overriding priority of the road map is clearly ... a return to the status quo that existed prior to
During a national phone hook-up on May 24, refugee rights activists decided to launch a campaign against the threatened deportation of Iranian refugees. On April 29, Iranians in the Baxter detention centre were told by the immigration department
BY LOUISE WALKER Ever since the federal government announced the higher education budget for 2003, a war of words has raged across the mass media. The rhetoric is set to heighten over the coming months. That's because the government has made it
The Ruckus Society has produced the War Profiteers Deck of cards to expose some of the real war criminals in Washington's endless war of terror against the Third World. This is no Sunday bridge club. These are individuals and institutions that stack
BY JAMES CAULFIELD CANBERRA — Speaking at an anti-war forum held on May 20, "human shield" Ruth Russell described Australian Prime Minister John Howard and US President George Bush as "armchair killers" who don't have to face the consequences of
BY MURRAY SMITH PARIS — Following the success of the massive one-day general strike on May 13, the government of French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin is in deep trouble. The May 13 strike, the largest since 1995, was in response to the