Margaret Gleeson, Sydney
On March 12, 1000 people rallied in opposition to the Coalition government's anti-women, anti-worker agenda, to mark International Women's Day.
Women of all ages and backgrounds were united in calling for the immediate
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Doug Lorimer
On February 25, US Army officials at Fort Stewart, Georgia, announced that Sergeant Kevin Benderman, a 40-year-old army mechanic who refused to deploy to Iraq for a second tour of duty, will be court-martialed on desertion charges. If
As Olympic officials descended on Paris on March 10 to inspect the city's potential as a games host, a general strike shut much of the country, including subways, airports, schools, bus networks, radio stations and post offices, across 55 cities and
On March 12, the House of Lords passed new terror laws that allow for the imposition of house arrest, electronic tagging and curfews on people who have not been charged with any crime. In its first draft, which was massively defeated on March 5 by
On February 23, Indonesian painter and activist Semsar Siahaan passed away as a result of a heart attack. Siahaan was the foremost artist of the progressive movement in Indonesia and had visited Australia more than once, including to attend the
More than 300 staff of the University of Papua New Guinea have been on strike since March 7 on strike demanding the resignation of the vice-chancellor and three other senior management officials. The university's two staff associations claim that the
Roger Burbach
The February 12 murder of Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old nun who helped peasants engage in sustainable agriculture in the Amazonian rainforest, came as oligarchic interests and the parliamentary right are on a political offensive
The US rulers have constructed many false pretexts and downright lies to justify their invasions, occupations and exploitation of other nations. In the Middle East, the "liberation of women" has been a common rationale in Washington's effort to win
Sarah Stephen
On the same day as the immigration department made news headlines around the world for threatening to deport 104-year-old Chinese woman Cui Yu Hu, the corporate media ignored news of a case of grotesque medical negligence.
Greens
Tim Anderson
Minor objections to the official US line can lend a semblance
of independent credibility to Australian commentaries, in the current
climate of global war. Such is the case with Paul McGeough's recent
caricature of Cuba
Iraq
Dominant propaganda broadcasts the social myth that "our boys are just doing a job" in Iraq. Such language sanitizes, deodorises and legitimises Australia's armed "liberation" taskforce. When our "checkpoint" soldiers shoot and wound a woman
Neoliberal success story I
"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
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