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Students to mobilise to 'punish Howard'

Alexis Vassiley In the wake of the National Union of Students' national education conference, held at the University of Sydney on June 30-July 2, student activists around the country have called for rallies to be held in mid August to protest the

IRAQ: UN mission fails to recruit troops

Doug Lorimer The United Nations has failed to persuade enough member countries to contribute troops to provide protection for its planned mission to Iraq, according to the July 21 Los Angeles Times. The UN was seeking at least 1000 troops from

Our Common Cause: Will these corporate killers get away?

There was outrage when it was revealed during hearings of the ongoing NSW Special Commission of Inquiry that a special fund set up by the James Hardie company to pay its asbestos victims was $1.7 billion short of what was needed to look after many

Green Left website traffic hits new high

Traffic to the Green Left Weekly website hit an all-time high on July 19, when a total of 19,650 visitors came to the site and a total of 86,243 articles were read. Previously, the highest number of visitors on one day had been around 14,000. Most

PNG forced to cooperate with Howard's 'war on terror'

Karen Fredericks The Coalition government will start deploying Australian police to Papua New Guinea from early September. This follows the Papua New Guinea parliament's decision on July 27 to finalise legislation giving the 230 Australian police

Bravo Arroyo!

On July 29, Australia's ambassador to the Philippines was called in to that country's foreign ministry to be given a justly deserved "dressing down" over foreign minister Alexander Downer's attacks on Philippines President Gloria Arroyo's decision to

UNITED STATES: Michael Moore is right! Soldiers in Iraq want to go home

Rohan Pearce Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, the most successful anti-war film ever, doesn't gloss over the atrocities committed by the US occupation forces in Iraq, depicting graphic scenes of carnage inflicted on Iraqis by US soldiers. But

Why Labor should oppose the FTA

Dick Nichols ALP leader Mark Latham would make himself very popular if he rejected the Coalition government's misnamed "free trade" agreement (FTA) with the United States and demanded its renegotiation. He would become the hero of the Australian

ETU steps closer to 36-hour week

Marcus Pabian, Melbourne On July 28, the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) scored another victory in its ambitious campaign to institute a 36-hour week, improve working conditions and increase the number of apprentices in the Victorian power industry,

Write on: Letters to the editor

Iraq Yet again, it appears that senior Coalition of the Willing politicians have fed the public grossly false — but politically convenient — information about Iraq. On November 20, 2003, Tony Blair declared: "We've already discovered, just so

Opera House two appeal convictions

Dale Mills, Sydney On July 29, two anti-war activists who painted the words "No war" on the Sydney Opera House's main sail on March 18 last year argued in the NSW Criminal Appeal Court that they should have been allowed to put their defence of

SUDAN: US steps up pressure over Darfur crisis

Doug Lorimer The Australian and British governments — Washington's partners in last year's illegal invasion of Iraq — have offered to send troops to Sudan as part of a UN "peacekeeping" force, despite the fact that there is no proposal before