Well-known Indonesian human rights campaigner Munir died onboard a flight to the Netherlands on September 7. He was 38 years old. The following statement was issued by Tapol, the British-based Indonesia human rights campaign organisation.
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Doug Lorimer
United Nations inspectors have found no clear evidence of a nuclear weapons program in Iran, according to a report circulated to the board of governors of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The Iranian government
Max Lane
I condemn the bombing outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta on September 9, which has taken at least nine lives and injured more than 180 Indonesians — mainly people doing business at the embassy and passers-by. I express my full
Support is growing daily for the national "End the lies!" rallies scheduled for the October 2-3 weekend. Following are messages of endorsement for these actions.
Jo Vallentine
It's important for people to be seen to be speaking out about the need
Sue Bolton
It's hard to think of any unionist in recent times who has been more vilified by the mainstream media than former Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian branch secretary Craig Johnston.
The previous most vilified trade
Rupen Savoulian
According to the Russian government, about 330 people, one-third of them school children, were found dead after Russian special forces (Spetsnaz) stormed a school gymnasium in the North Ossetian town of Beslan on September 3. How
Rihab Charida, a member of the Socialist Alliance and Palestinian solidarity group Sawiyan, travelled to Palestine and Lebanon in June to help at the refugee camps. This is one of her tales from Palestine, sent to Green Left Weekly on September 2.
Left Hook co-editor M. Junaid Alam recently discussed the political and the personal with the radical Palestinian-American activist and rap artist Will Youmans, who dons the moniker "Iron Sheik". His clever and powerful music is aimed against
Now a spokesperson for Lismore's No War on Iraq group, I've been an environment and social-justice activist for more than 20 years, and am proud to say I was one of those arrested for blocking bulldozers on Mt Nardi (near Nimbin) in 1981. Those
Don Jarret
Ron Gray, treasurer of the Australian Peace Committee, died in Adelaide on August 13 at the age of 79. The following is an abridged version of the speech given by Don Jarret, the APC South Australian branch president, at Ron's funeral.
Chris Johnson, the Socialist Alliance candidate for Corangamite in Geelong, explains why she is contesting the federal election.
I have been an activist since my teens, having marched in anti-Vietnam War moratorium and anti-nuclear rallies. I am a
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SIEV X book launched
BRISBANE — The story of SIEV X, the unseaworthy, overcrowded refugee boat that sank in October 2001, drowning some 350 asylum-seekers off the Indonesian coast, involves a "massive Australian government agency cover-up",
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