Ben Courtice, Melbourne
Two days after the October 1 terrorist bombing in Bali, 70 people protested outside the Victorian Supreme Court against the government's new terror laws, and in support of the democratic rights of terrorism suspect Jack
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On September 29, the First People of the Kalahari (FPK), the grassroots organisation of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen, who are fighting for their right to return to their ancestral homeland, were awarded Sweden's Right Livelihood Award, known as the
An 82-year-old man was evicted from the Labour Party conference on September 28 and then refused re-entry under "terrorism" laws. Foreign secretary Jack Straw told delegates that British troops were in Iraq "for one reason only" — to help the
Jim McIlroy
Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) employed in Centrelink are holding rolling stop-work meetings around the country in their campaign for a fair enterprise bargaining agreement. The previous agreement expired on
Graham Matthews, Sydney
"War represents a total failure of the human spirit", declared renowned journalist Robert Fisk at his packed-out Sydney university lecture on October 5. "If you could see what I've seen, you would never support a war."
Luke Fomiatti, Sydney
Students are claiming victory after the University of Western Sydney allowed a forum with Iraqi trade unionist Farouk Isma'al to go ahead on September 21 on the Bankstown campus.
They had been told that the forum, to be held
On October 16, 1968, two coloured US athletes, Tommy Smith and John Carlos, caused a sensation when they bowed their heads and raised their fists in a Black Power salute during the US national anthem at a medal award ceremony at the Mexico City
Joanna Mendelssohn, Sydney
September 17 was not just the NSW Marrickville by-election, it was also the day of the Blue Moon Festival. All around the world, Goths were celebrating.
There was a delicious moment in the mid-afternoon, on King Street,
Doug Lorimer
Despite the fact that in a report to the September 19-24 meeting of the board of governors of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA director-general Mohamed ElBaradei acknowledged that Iran had not breached its obligations
Stephen Garvey, Melbourne
One hundred and twenty people attended a forum on September 27 to discuss the treatment of refugees in the global social and political context. Melbourne QC Julian Burnside, Green Left Weekly's Sarah Stephen, former Manus
Axel Troost, national co-chairperson of the west German-based WASG (Electoral Alternative for Jobs and Social Justice), and Michael Leutert, vice-chairperson of the east German-based Left Party-Party of Democratic Socialism (Die Linkepartei.PDS) in
REVIEW BY BEN COURTICE
Justice For Jack: the real story behind the 'Jihad Jack' caseBy Stefan MarkworthAvailable from <http://www.justice4jack.com>
While many are familiar with the case of David Hicks, currently held by the US at the
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