MELBOURNE — Activists from the Timor Sea Justice Campaign drop a banner over the Eastern Freeway on March 7, displaying a message for the Australian government. Negotiations over the disputed oil and gas fields in the Timor Sea took place in
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Protesters gathered outside the Melbourne Magistrates Court on March 9 in defence of three activists facing trespass charges. The charges relate to a protest at the Australia Defence Industries factory in Benalla, which highlighted the damage
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Widespread public disgust at the sweeping privatisation process pushed by the Chinese government since 1997 has begun to surface in the Chinese mass media.
Last August, Taiwan-born, US-educated and Hong Kong-based academic Larry Lang
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The US military used internationally banned chemical weapons, including nerve gas, during their assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah last November, Dr Khalid ash Shaykhli, an Iraqi health ministry official, told a March 3 Baghdad
SYDNEY — TJ Hickey, who died following a police chase in February 2004, should have celebrated his 19th birthday on March 9. A community rally in his family's home town of Walgett marked the occasion.
This was followed by a rally of the Walgett
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"On March 20, millions of people will protest across the globe against the war in Iraq. It won't stop the war but it may, just may, deter them from pursuing the next part of their project — to attack Iran, or
Stan Goff, a US special forces veteran, whose son is in Iraq, is now a campaigner with the Bring Them Home Now! movement against the US occupation of Iraq. Here, he speaks to Green Left Weekly's Pip Hinman about the US deserters.
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As the Socialist Alliance's annual conference approaches (scheduled for June in Melbourne), members are debating the best way forward for the alliance. In the interests of furthering this discussion, Green Left Weekly presents contrasting views on
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"Most Latin American countries adopted far-reaching economic-overhaul agendas during the 1990s. These included selling off state-owned enterprises, sharply reducing tariffs, battling inflation with debt reduction and
BRISBANE — Police arrested five people during a speak-out against the war in Iraq on the steps of King George Square on March 11. The weekly speak-out to oppose the decision by the Coalition government to send an additional 450 troops to Iraq
CANBERRA — Opposition continues to grow in the lead-up to the Community and Public Sector Union's national council meeting on March 18-20 over plans by the current leadership to rush through a restructure of the union that would concentrate even
The March 9 edition of the Sun featured a blazing "Stamp on the camps!" headline, with an article underneath calling for a "war on gipsy [sic] free-for-all", and warning of a "gipsy invasion". The newspaper is campaigning against recent governmental
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