Seventy per cent of Iraqi workers — about 10 million people — are unemployed. Many are now organising in the Unemployed Union of Iraq. In February, the UUI appointed Jalal Mohamad its official representative in Australia. Socialist Alliance
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Norman Brewer, Sydney
Aboriginal activists from the Redfern Block have called on "Aboriginal communities and their supporters to unite and support the demand for a national royal commission to examine police mistreatment of Aboriginal youth" by
Hassan Shamsaei,some, I'm told, call you"The Blind Man of Baxter."You've refused food since mid-Novemberbut say you are not on a hunger strike.You have not sought publicity.Are you blind to the fear of death?Is this what Australia has done to you?You
@intro2 = There is plenty of evidence to contradict the government's claim that it did not know that Iraq possessed no weapons' of mass destruction.
The government said:Intelligence said:
PM John Howard, September 9, 2002, 7.30 Report
Ashwin Desai & Richard Pithouse, Durban
In the 10th year of South African democracy, we are forced to confront a number of sobering facts. For the purposes of this short article we'd like to highlight just five.
The first is that the ANC has
Actively Radical TV
— Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. Includes the Green Left news. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Phone 9564 1277. Visit
Jon Lamb, Darwin
While the federal Coalition government remains tight-lipped about the likelyhood of a new United States military base in Australia, opposition to such a facility continues to grow. Darwin has been earmarked as a suitable site for a
SYDNEY — Forty Socialist Alliance members marched in the 25th annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade behind a banner reading "Medicare not warfare". The parade, held on March 6, was observed by at least 250,000 people, despite constant
NEWCASTLE — One-hundred TAFE workers from around the Hunter region rallied at Newcastle TAFE campus on March 12. The workers, members of the NSW Public Service Association, resolved to reinforce industrial bans to win back 50 jobs cut through NSW
Unemployment benefits, that is
"Capitalism generates fantastic wealth, and the benefits accrue almost entirely to the least of these among us." — Art Carden, in a March 8 article "Why they hate the market", written for the web site of the
Eva Cheng
The re-emergence of concurrent deficits in the external current account and the federal budget of the United States — dubbed the "twin deficits" — and the likelihood of them continuing to grow for a long time, has reignited a debate
End the occupation!
In 2003, a clear majority opposed Australia joining the US in its war for oil in Iraq. The contemptuous Howard government retorted that removing Saddam Hussein was a matter of urgency because its "weapons of mass destruction"
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