"Far too many young boys are growing up without proper role models", a concerned John Howard told parliament on June 24. "They are not infrequently in the overwhelming care and custody of their mothers", the prime minister added, motivating a
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Keef Tomkinson is a member, and former national organiser, of the Scottish Socialist Youth, the youth organisation of the Scottish Socialist Party. He will be speaking in Sydney at the Resistance national conference, July 11-13 at the Glebe
BY LYNETTE DUMBLE MELBOURNE Tahmeena Faryal from the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), and Surma Hamid from the Committee in Defence of Iraqi Women's Rights (CDIWR), will speak at a public forum at Trades Hall on
BY EVA CHENG
Between 500,000 and 700,000 people flooded the streets of Hong Kong on July 1, in an angry protest against the scheduled finalisation of an anti-subversion law on July 9.
The Hong Kong government pressed ahead with the legislation,
BY JEFF SHANTZ
The death toll from the ongoing war in the Congo, which began in 1998, is higher than in any other since World War II, with an estimated 4.7 million killed in the last four years alone. The International Rescue Committee (IRC), an
BY KEIRAN LATTY
Danny Fairfax's article "profiting from death" (GLW #543) rightly highlights the relationship between arms spending and the economy, but the picture is more complex than he paints.
In the past, military expenditure and war have
BY CHANTAL CARUSO The Western Australian Labor government has conceded that its contentious Prostitution Control Bill will not be passed by the upper house, and has therefore decided to shelve the bill. Through the bill, police minister Michelle
BY DALE MILLS
The European Commission for Human Rights, Europe's senior human rights court, ruled in a judgment delivered on July 1 that the British investigation into the murder of civil rights solicitor Patrick Finucane was flawed.
Finucane was
BY DUNCAN MEERDING & ALBY DALLAS HOBART A public forum on health and education was attended by 50 people on July 2. Held at the Republic Bar, a popular left-wing pub, the meeting was organised by the Socialist Alliance. The participants
BY GRAHAM WILLIAMS MELBOURNE More than 700 workers mobilised on July 3 at Footscray's Whitten Oval, as part of a campaign to win a new enterprise bargaining agreement across the Victorian manufacturing industry. This round of pattern
BY DOUG LORIMER
Claiming that Iran has a secret nuclear weapons program, US government officials have pressured Japan to abandon the development of a huge oil project there. According to a report in the July 2 edition of the Tokyo daily Mainichi
BY JOHN PILGER
America's two "great victories" since September 11, 2001, are unravelling. In Afghanistan, the regime of Hamid Karzai has virtually no authority and no money, and would collapse without US guns. Al Qaeda has not been defeated, and
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