Doug Lorimer
At a December 17 Baghdad new conference, the main Sunni-led alliance that contested the December 15 elections for a new Iraqi parliament hailed the high voter turn-out by Sunni Muslims. Participation by Sunnis in the election had
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REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN
Following Them Home: the Fate of the Returned Asylum SeekersBy David CorlettBlack Inc Books, 2005220 pages, $24.95
"The Australian government has long declared that it owes no duty of care to those asylum seekers it
Barry Healy
UN troops in Haiti are actively terrorising civilians, a coalition of human rights activists said in Washington on November 15, as they filed two legal petitions with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
The
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. — Margaret Mead
Without agitators, there would be no advance towards civilisation. Without dissent ... democracy in its true sense remains
Dick Nichols
On November 26, the Brisbane Courier Mail front page screamed: "Barnaby to wreck Howard's IR agenda". Less than a week later the "maverick Queensland senator" was trying to convince the country that government acceptance of his
December 7, 1918: 100,000 textile workers strike in Lancashire, England.
December 17, 1918: Hundreds of trade unionists take over Darwin and chase the corrupt administrator John Anderson Gilruth out to sea.
December 21, 2003: Sydney high-school
Doug Lorimer
A meeting of Coalition MPs on November 30 agreed to support the Howard government's Anti-Terrorism Bill (2005) with some minor alterations. Only two days earlier, government and Labor senators on the Senate committee examining the
I is for InfidelBy Kathy GannonPublic Affairs Books, 2005
REVIEW BY BILL NEVINS
Kathy Gannon is an "old Afghan hand" and her book on Afghanistan is crucial reading. Four years after 9/11 and well into the third year of the US-led occupation, Iraq
The following resolution was passed by the Australian Council of Trade Unions in November.
The ACTU Executive congratulates and supports the Venezuelan government for its utilisation of the country's wealth and resources for reforms to benefit
Stephanie Long, Montreal
From November 28 to December 9, more than 170 countries are engaging in negotiations under the Kyoto Protocol and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. To date, 157 countries have ratified the Kyoto
Manifesto: Three Classic Essays on How to Change the WorldKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, Ernesto Che GuevaraPreface by Adrienne RichIntroduction by Armando HartOcean Books, 2005168 pages
REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER
Given 170 or so
Thousands of Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) activists demonstrated in Lahore on December 6 against the imperialist onslaught of privatisation and the World Trade Organisation, on the eve of the WTO ministerial meeting in Hong Kong.
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