The Abu Ghraib prison scandal, exposing the brutal treatment of Iraqi prisoners by US army personnel, was not an isolated incident:
Interrogators in US prisons in Afghanistan frequently use torture to acquire confessions and have caused many
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@9point non= SYDNEY — An estimated 50,000 people turned up to hear at least 200 international and local writers and journalists speak during the May 23-30 Sydney Writers Festival.
Renown Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki, interviewed by
Louise Walker is a national co-convener of the Socialist Alliance who is not a member of any of the organisations affiliated to the alliance.
What do you consider to be the major gains of the Socialist Alliance so far?
The Socialist Alliance has
David Glanz is a Socialist Alliance national co-convenor and a leading member of the International Socialist Organisation, one of the founding affiliates of the alliance.
What do you consider to be the major gains of the Socialist Alliance project
CANBERRA — Chilean solidarity activists around Australia have been holding information evenings to raise awareness of the conditions of political prisoners being held in Chile and other Latin American jails.
Galvarino Sergio Apablaza Guerra, also
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Slap on the wrist for ERA
Kathy Newnam, Darwin
The Ranger uranium mine operator, Energy Resources Australia, has received a $150,000 fine by the Darwin Magistrates Court for breaching the Mining Management Act. ERA pleaded guilty
Barbara Rojas & Owen Richards, Sydney
Aleida Guevara, 44-year-old daughter of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, criticised the neoliberal policies of Western governments and called for anti-globalisation activists to study the revolutionary ideas of her
Norm Dixon
Zimbabwe's authoritarian capitalist government, headed by President Robert Mugabe, has unleashed a massive wave of police brutality and destruction in an attempt to terrorise the country's fiercely anti-government urban working class and
Up to 20,000 people took part in Tonga's largest ever demonstration in the capital Nuku'alofa on May 26. The protest was fuelled by anger at high electricity costs while the executives of power company Shoreline, owned by the Crown Prince Tupouto'a
Trade unionist and political prisoner Craig Johnston was released from Loddon prison in country Victoria on May 26, the same day that the Coalition government announced its next set of anti-union laws.
In 2001, while Johnston was the Victorian
That Craig Johnston was released from jail on the very day that the Coalition government unveiled its new industrial relations laws warrants special attention by all those millions of Australian working people who will see their wages, job security
According to the Palestine National Information Centre's May 30 report on the Al Asqa Intifada, 4032 Palestinians, 750 of them children have died since September 2000. Of the total deaths, 732 were caused by Israeli shelling of Palestinian homes.
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