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PALESTINE: An imminent cease-fire?

BY AHMAD NIMER RAMALLAH — Following the conclusion of the three-way summit between the US, Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Aqaba on June 4, Palestinian activists and political factions have reacted with a mixture of anger and

A very important message

BY DAVE RILEY The World Health Organisation today issued a new warning against non-essential travel to the entire Western hemisphere following renewed concerns about the spread of Severe Loss of Perspective Syndrome (SLOPS). Officials are warning

Anger over ADI sellout

BY GAIL LORD SYDNEY — The ADI Residents Action Group (RAG) was disappointed, but not surprised, by the June 16 NSW government approval of the development of the old defence site at St Marys. Nearly 2000 homes will be built on 130 hectares of

ACEH: Billy Nessen likely to be charged

BY IGGY KIM On June 24, US journalist William Nessen gave himself up to the Indonesian military in the northern Acehnese village of Paya Dua. Nessen had been accompanying Free Aceh Movement (GAM) fighters since early May, before the outbreak of

Write on: Letters to the editor

Socialist Alliance and Green Left Weekly As a non-aligned member (NAM) of the Socialist Alliance, I look forward to when the Socialist Alliance (SA) becomes a multi-tendency party and has a paper which has the quality of Green Left Weekly. While

PERU: Government in crisis in wake of strike wave

BY JIM MCILROY & ROBYN MARSHALL LIMA — The entire cabinet of Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo resigned on June 25, amid rising social tensions which threaten to bring down Toledo himself. This follows the refusal of his party, the Peru

Out of our little boxes

BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS MELBOURNE — "It's crucial that we start to get out of our little boxes", said John Cummins, Victorian president of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), addressing the Victorian Socialist Alliance state

SOLOMON ISLANDS: Ethnic conflict a legacy of imperialist exploitation

BY NORM DIXON Australian military intervention into the Solomon Islands, announced by Prime Minister John Howard on June 25, will not solve problems that are the legacy of more than a century of imperialist economic and political domination and the

News Briefs

Protest against new secret police powers ADELAIDE — A "journalist", a "minor" and a "neighbour" symbolically detained in a cage on the steps of Parliament House on June 25 were among 70 people protesting the new anti-terrorism law, under which

Rebellion in the maritime union

BY SUE BOLTON According to many long-time members of the Maritime Union of Australia, there has never before been such a rebellion from the ranks of the MUA and its forerunners — the Seamens Union of Australia and the Waterside Workers

AFGHANISTAN: World's largest source of heroin

BY DOUG LORIMER A survey by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime has found that Afghanistan has supplanted Burma as the world's largest source of illegal heroin. There are now 741 square kilometres of land being used to cultivate opium poppies in

Sarwari family victory

BY KAMALA EMANUEL LAUNCESTON — The Sarwari family — Mohib, Fatima and their four children — will be able to stay in Australia for now. After a long struggle, the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) reinstated their temporary protection visa