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JAPAN: War on Terror used to justify imperial militarism

BY EVA CHENG At US$45.6 billion, Japan's military budget was dwarfed only by the military budget of the United States which totalled $396.1 billion for fiscal 2003. Throughout the 1990s, Japan's war budget was the second largest in the world —

Socialism: what it is and how to get it

BY MICHELLE BREAR Young progressive activists will be converging on Sydney from July 11 to 13, to discuss, debate and listen to international campaigners at the Resistance national conference. "Thousands of young people took part in their first

Merchants of war: reaping profits from death

BY DANNY FAIRFAX "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed; those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the

Indefinite detention of children is unlawful

BY SARAH STEPHEN Last July, two children asked the Family Court to make the immigration minister release them from detention, because it was harmful to their welfare. The judge, however, found in October that the court did not have jurisdiction

Write on: Letters to the editor

Cuba Peter Frost (Write On, GLW #542), criticises GLW for publishing my article on the "independent libraries" project in Cuba (GLW #541), I would like to make a number of points. Firstly, he incorrectly asserts that some of the 75 opponents of

NSW education workers angered by job cut proposal

BY JENNY LONG SYDNEY — NSW unions covering public servants and teachers in TAFE and the Department of Education and Training (DET) have rejected proposed job cuts announced by NSW Labor education minister Andrew Refshauge on June 17. At least