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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
BY DOUG LORIMER US President George Bush met with 11 "exiled Cuban activists" (as the US corporate media described them) at the White House on May 20 — the 101st anniversary of the adoption by Cuba of a constitution which guaranteed Washington
BY SARAH STEPHEN On May 19, ABC television's Four Corners program presented a damning expose of the horrors that went on behind the razor wire of the Woomera immigration detention centre before its closure in mid-April. In the first half of 2000,
GLW #537 reported on a motion passed at the May 10-11 Socialist Alliance national conference. Regrettably, the final section of the motion was omitted. This is the full motion as passed: "Conference endorses these eight points: "1. We want the
MELBOURNE — The Melbourne Workers Theatre and the Canto Coro choir present 1975 — A Populist Opera. Irene Vela's work explores the tumultuous events in Australia's political history that took place in that year, including the sacking of Prime
Most rational response "Russian President Vladimir Putin openly mocks America's failed efforts to find chemical, biological or nuclear weapons in Iraq... It doesn't matter... even if Iraq proves utterly free of WMD — or if it merely possesses a
BY MARCUS PABIAN MELBOURNE — Part of the May 22 national day of protest called by the National Union of Students (NUS) against the Howard government's education "reforms", announced in its May 13 budget, 330 students marched in protest from
BY CHRIS SLEE& GEOFF SPENCER MELBOURNE — Strikes and lockouts continue at a number of Melbourne factories as members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union campaign for new enterprise agreements which include a 36-hour work week. After
BY DALE T. McKINLEY JOHANNESBURG — Two years ago I sat with veteran African National Congress leader Walter Sisulu in his modest Johannesburg home to talk about his days as a youthful ANC leader in the 1940s and 1950s. Although I had briefly met
BY PAUL PRITCHARD HOBART — Amid reports of increased cases of asthma from the thick palls of smoke that cover much of Tasmania during the forestry "re-generation burns" comes an altogether more disturbing story. In April, Australia's biggest