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IRAQ: Insurgents take control of two more cities

Doug Lorimer "Iraqi authorities will take determined steps against illegal bodies of local self-government in Fallujah, Ramadi and Samarra", US-appointed Iraqi interior minister Falah al Naqib claimed in an interview with the Russian Novosti news

Forced transfers stopped - for now

Aaron Benedek& Susan Mullan, Sydney At very short notice, 20 refugee supporters, including Merlin Luck from Channel Ten's Big Brother program, rallied on July 14 to protest the forced transfers of asylum seekers from Sydney's Villawood detention

Carr gift to Lowy and Latham?

Cate Faehrmann, Sydney Greens NSW upper-house MP Lee Rhiannon has described the state Labor government's forced closure of a factory outlet in the south-west Sydney suburb of Liverpool, which will benefit a nearby Westfield shopping complex, as a

School cleaners fight to save their jobs

Katie Cherrington, Newcastle New South Wales' public school cleaners are fighting to save their jobs. Commerce minister in the NSW Labor government John Della Bosca has announced that new multi-year contracts to clean schools and other public

'We shall not surrender Ralphs Bay!'

Kamala Emanuel, Hobart More than 700 people rallied in Hobart on July 15 to save Ralphs Bay in the Derwent estuary from a huge canal and housing development. If Walker Corporation's plans are allowed to go ahead, the Ralphs Bay Conservation Area

Campaign to close Villawood gains momentum

Ruth Ratcliffe, Sydney One hundred and fifty Sydney residents have signed on to a "community pledge" to offer sanctuary in their homes to people detained in Villawood detention centre. Rupen Savoulian, one of the campaign organisers, told Green

Write on: Letters to the editor

Abortion Tony Abbott apparently wants "late-term" abortions banned. Why? He probably believes it is a terrible wrong to (intentionally) kill any (innocent) human being and really wants an end to (virtually) all abortions. However, if it is

Abortion scaremongering

On August 8, a British documentary titled My Foetus, depicting the abortion of a four-week-old foetus, will screen on the ABC. In the July 10 Daily Telegraph, NSW lead Senate candidate for the Socialist Alliance, Kylie Moon, was asked to comment on

Time for rebellion

REVIEW BY ROHAN PEARCE Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American CenturyBy Stan GoffSoft Skull Press, New York 2004243 pages, US$13.95 pbOrder from <http://www.softskull.com> "For a brief time in 1994 I acted as the

'Green-Black alliance' discussed

Alex Milne, Melbourne The 2004 Students of Sustainability conference was held at La Trobe University on July 11-14. Around 500 environmentalists and other activists, from interstate and overseas, attended. As always, there was an impressive

Sinister workings of the Bush regime

REVIEW BY OWEN RICHARDS Cutting Edge: The World According to BushScreening on SBS, 8.30pm, July 20 & 27 If you're not yet having nightmares about the world being in the hands of a circle of crazed zealots, this should do it. The World According

Protests planned to 'End the lies'

Pip Hinman Plans to hold national "End the lies" rallies the Sunday before the federal elections are well underway. Groups in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Hobart have adopted the additional demands, "Troops out! Howard out!" Andrew Hall told