'Free' market at work
"Halliburton ... charged the Pentagon $27.5 million to ship $82,100 worth of cooking and heating fuel.. In the latest revelation about the company's oft-criticized performance in Iraq, a Pentagon audit report disclosed Monday
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Barry Healy
The Movement Of United Farmworkers (MTC), a Guatemalan community organisation in the San Marcos region where the Canadian-US company Glamis Gold is operating, has issued an urgent appeal for international solidarity following the
Peter Benenson
The recent passing of Peter Benenson, founder of Amnesty International, is a sad event. In correspondence with him some years ago, I found him a far more interesting and radical person than the incarnation of AI in this country would
Kim Bullimore
Palestinian women in the Salfit district of the Israeli-occupied West Bank were joined by international and Israeli peace activists to marked the 29th annual Palestinian Land Day on March 30.
Palestinian Land Day, known as Yom al
Rohan Pearce and Alison Dellit
"Masses of Americans are against this war and are looking for a way to express that", Ahmed Shawki, the editor of US journal International Socialist Review, told the audience at the Asia Pacific International
Throughout the continent, there is an offensive against the rights of women. Most law does not recognise the term "sexual rights", and the religious right has been working hard to eliminate the term "reproductive rights" as well.
In several
Jamal Juma, Jerusalem
Over the last two months there has been a wide-scale escalation of popular resistance confronting the ever-intensifying Israeli occupation. The Ramallah demonstration on March 14 reflected the highpoint of mobilisation against
More than 40 million cubic metres of sand, silt from the sea bed of Port Phillip Bay and the Yarra River, and rock removal by intense "hydro-hammering" from the Rip.
The Great Ship Channel through the Rip will be deepened by at least three metres
US Treasury figures released on March 31 have revealed that US company profits soared 13.5% to US$1.3 trillion in the last quarter of last year, boosted by "labour's weak bargaining power". This brings profits to the highest portion of US income
Someone said somethingand it flew overone ear and passedthrough the other.
And the third worldrolled over and groanedfor it had been beaten.and its organs were seeping outof deep, blood red wounds.
it was tired.hungry.its bed mate, unhurt,white
Ben Courtice
MELBOURNE — Les Thomas, brother of Melbourne resident Jack Thomas who is charged with terrorist offences, told the media on April 1 that his brother's case demonstrates the current threats to civil liberties. He particularly singled
Chris Slee, Melbourne
Support from other workers for the picket set up by workers sacked from the ABM Plastics factory in the Melbourne suburb of Braeside has been "outstanding", Jamie Bellerby, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU)
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