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Call for wide-ranging detention inquiry

[The following statement by detainees at the Baxter detention centre in South Australia was issued on February 8.] The public inquiry into the happenings of the unlawful detention of Cornelia Rau should not be short-sighted but expanded into an

Anti-war, anti-globalisation movements can win power

Max Lane The March 24 public meeting that will set the Third Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference (APISC 2005) in motion will not feature a panel of speakers from Asia or the Pacific island countries. A single speaker — former US

AFRICA: African forum must destroy the cage

Trevor Ngwane, Johannesburg The World Social Forum is coming to Africa in 2007. This is great news. But how exactly will the coming of the WSF to Africa in 2007 advance the struggle against neoliberalism and capitalist domination? This is an

SHOCKFACTS: War in the 20th century

An estimated 200 million people died as a result of war during the 20th century, including: World War I (1914-18): 15 million World War II (1937-45): 55 million Korean War (1950-53): 2.8 million Vietnam War (1960-75): 3.5 million Gulf War

Jack Thomas appeals bail decision

MELBOURNE — On February 10, Jack Thomas, who is facing charges under "anti-terrorism" laws, appealed the decision not to grant him bail. Under the "anti-terrorism" laws, suspects may not be granted bail unless there are exceptional mitigating

VENEZUELA: General accused of terrorism arrested

On February 5, National Guard General Felipe Rodriguez was arrested in Venezuela. Rodriguez was charged by state prosecutor Danilo Anderson, since murdered, with being involved in bombing the Spanish and Colombian embassies two years ago and for his

Write on: Letters to the editor

Che Guevara Chris Slee's review of Mike Gonzalez's book Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution (GLW #614), while challenging the author's anti-Che biases and cliches, unfortunately introduces a few of his own. Che did not intend to "initiate a

UNITED STATES: Ossie Davis

Mike Stark, Chicago In 1999, I was driving Ossie Davis around Washington, D.C., during a visit he made to participate in a delegation to the White House in support of Pennsylvania death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. Drawing on his Georgia roots,

Western complicity in the Cambodian holocaust

Getting Away with Genocide? Elusive Justice and the Khmer Rouge TribunalBy Tom Fawthrop and Helen JarvisUNSW Press, Sydney, 2005320 pages, $39.95 (pb) REVIEW BY TONY ILTIS Commentators of the Gerard Henderson variety accuse the "left" of having

RMIT union members decide to continue work bans

James Vassilopoulos, Melbourne Eighty members of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) employed at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology decided on February 8 to continue work bans in pursuit of a new enterprise bargaining agreement.

Greens repeat call for troops to be brought home

Pip Hinman Debate over the Defence Amendment Bill — introduced into the Senate in 2004 by the Australian Democrats — continued on February 10, with the Greens again calling for Australian troops to be brought home from Iraq. The current

Abortion 'debate': Women must have right to choose

Lara Pullin Federal health minister Tony Abbott's push to restrict (and eventually outlaw) women's access to legal abortion services continues to gather momentum, with more Coalition and some Labor MPs joining in the call for a "public debate"