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The new #UnitedIreland campaign has released the video below, narrated by actor Irish actor John Connors. The video says it is time to build a new, democratic, inclusive and United Ireland.

Looking out: Sheba and Zoe By Brandon Astor Jones "Kids lead a tough life ... Kids and my people have a lot in common ... Only our problems aren't solved by getting older. — Dick Gregory Young people have a tough go
Colin O'Brien Colin O'Brien died in early September. Colin had been an apprentice chef and a member of Resistance and the Socialist Workers Party in Sydney in the early 1980s. He worked in Europe for a number of years before
By Max Lane Already last month in Jakarta, the Suharto dictatorship had increased surveillance and repression in the lead-up to the coming Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) heads of state meeting. When visiting human rights,
Aborigines occupy Qld national park By Bill Mason BRISBANE — More than 30 Aborigines are occupying the Lawn Hill National Park, about 240 km north-west of Mount Isa, in support of their demand for involvement in the management
The theme of the recent Chris Hani memorial tour of three leading South African labour leaders was "Labour and Women in the New South Africa". Charles Nqakula, general secretary of the South African Communist Party and ANC national executive
Remember them? "The trouble is, the interest in Afghanistan has waned." — A UN official on the civil war that has raged in Afghanistan among US-backed "freedom fighters" since they overthrew a leftist government two and a half years ago.
By Norm Dixon MADRID — "50 años bastan! FMI-BM asasinos!" (50 years is enough! IMF-WB are assassins!) was the chant that resounded through the streets of the Spanish capital on October 2 as an estimated 20,000 demonstrators marched to
Kamalayan, a newly formed student organisation in the National Capital Region (Metro Manila area), held its 1st congress September 9-11. CARLA GORTON from Green Left Weekly spoke to JUDY ANN CHAN, newly elected secretary general of Kamalayan, about
Bougainville nurse describes suffering By Jim Green WOLLONGONG — Ruby Mirenka, deputy matron of the Arawa General Hospital in Bougainville, addressed a lively meeting here on October 12. Her visit was designed to raise
Poem: Fist By Connie Frazer Because Grandma grew old twiddling thumbs, hands clasped, eight fingers locked together neat as a carpentry join; thumbs barrelling round and round, over and over
How Are We To Live? By Peter Singer Text Publishing. $24.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley It's been one helluva century! No sooner are we free of the placenta than we are sentenced to our role in history. But what does it all