Is the Coalition government surreptitiously trying to reimpose the death penalty on Australian citizens? This question has been posed by the conduct of the Australian Federal Police in the case of nine Australians arrested in Bali on April 17 by
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DARWIN — A protest against a new uranium mine in Kakadu National Park was held outside the Northern Territory parliament on April 26, to mark the expiry of the five-year moratorium on mining company negotiations with the traditional owners of the
May 4
1919: Despite losing one of their ranks to police gunfire, wharfies expel scabs in Fremantle on Bloody Sunday.
May 5
1818: Karl Marx is born.
1981: IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands dies in jail.
1993: 70,000 people march in Melbourne
GI Special is an online publication at <http://www.militaryproject.org>. It reports resistance events, especially those within the US armed forces. Green Left Weekly's Niko Leka spoke with GI Special editor Thomas Barton.
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Stuart Munckton
A public fight has erupted inside the Movement for a Fifth Republic (MVR), the party of socialist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, over issues of internal democracy. According to an April 25 Venezuela Analysis website report, the
SYDNEY — The discriminatory nature of police discretion has been shown again in the latest NSW crime statistics for 2002-04. Released on April 17 by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, the figures show that "offensive language" charges
Jon Lamb
Three days of negotiations over the disputed maritime boundary between East Timor and Australia concluded in Dili on April 29.
Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer announced that in exchange for East Timor's agreement to defer
Sarah Stephen
On April 26, 50 East Timorese asylum seekers were hand delivered letters rejecting their applications for refugee status in Australia, and given 28 days to leave the country. The immigration department (DIMIA) is offering individuals
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane
Supporters of civil liberties, unionists, Aborigines, students and many ordinary citizens will join a rally in the city square here on May 3 to remember the dictatorial regime of former Queensland National Party Premier Joh
Doug Lorimer
"In city after city and town after town, security forces who had signed up to secure Iraq and replace US forces appear to have abandoned posts or taken refuge inside them for fear of attacks" by Iraqi resistance fighters, the April 23
"If a woman has a right to decide on any question, it certainly is as to how many children she will bear." These words were uttered by Australian reproductive rights activist Bessie Smyth in 1893. The struggle to have this right recognised, and for
Manuel Urena & Alison Dellit
On February 24, 1.2 million people marched through Mexico City, protesting the politically motivated prosecution of the city's mayor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who is a leading contender in the presidential elections
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