UNITED STATES: Rules changed to allow Guantanamo Bay executions The US Army has changed rules governing where military executions can take place, clearing the way for possible executions of detainees in the military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.
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Sarah Stephen
Among the 43 West Papuan asylum seekers who were transferred to Christmas Island on January 18 are four family groups. They are living in community detention, under close guard.
A family of West Timorese asylum seekers is living in
Sarah Stephen
One of the passengers aboard the outrigger canoe that landed on Cape York peninsula on January 18 was a five-year-old child.
Reminiscent of so many stories of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum, the boy's parents, high-profile West
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REVIEW BY JOHN BRANSGROVE
In his 1984 book The Celluloid Closet, Vito Russo presented a critique of the way
Australians protested around the country last week in solidarity with the 43 West Papuan refugees who have been detained by the federal government on Christmas Island. The protesters called on the government to immediately release the asylum seekers
Jim McIlroy & Chris Kerr, Caracas
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez proclaimed "socialism or death" in finishing his rousing speech to a rally of around 10,000 people at the Polihedro Stadium on January 27. The rally was a feature of the Latin
A Scottish Socialist Party statement on January 26 reported that Labour joined with the Tories and Liberal Democrats to vote down an SSP bill to abolish Scottish National Health Service prescription charges. The vote was lost 77 to 44, despite the
The Socialist Alliance calls on the federal Coalition government and the ALP opposition to learn the lesson of East Timor in relation to West Papua.
Alliance spokesperson Pip Hinman said: "Last week's arrival on Cape York of 43 West Papuan asylum
Sue Bolton
The Coalition government's anti-worker Work Choices legislation, rammed through federal parliament just before Christmas, is due to be enacted on March 29.
Many unionists believe that the union movement needs a national stoppage to
Ready to snap
"Stretched by frequent troop rotations to Iraq and Afghanistan, the [US] Army has become a 'thin green line' that could snap unless relief comes soon, according to a study for the Pentagon. Andrew Krepinevich, a retired army officer
After workers at the giant plantation and refinery in Pelalawan owned by the world's largest palm oil company, Musim Mas, dared to organise a union, the union leaders were sacked. The company brought in scabs and more than 700 union members were
Eva Cheng
Despite police repression thwarting a January 20 protest against the king's autocratic rule, a defiant demonstration of 10,000-50,000 people burst onto the streets of Nepal's capital Kathmandu on January 21. This was followed by more mass
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