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Drugs: how 'zero tolerance' costs lives
By Will Williams
The NSW Drug Summit, called after the state Labor government closed down a needle exchange in Redfern before the last state election, met May 17-21 to discuss the problem of drug abuse and
By Nick Fredman
LISMORE — A May 19 stop-work meeting of more than 200 unionists — the largest at Southern Cross University (SCU) for many years — unanimously rejected an enterprise bargaining agreement offer and discussed possible industrial
By Sue Boland
"Crime against democracy" was how the Australian's May 15-16 editorial described Senator Brian Harradine's May 14 decision to reject the goods and services tax (GST) as "inherently regressive". Other newspaper editorials and
Let's hear it for fools!
@column int = Aboard this ship of fools you will find all kinds: the Shakespearean fool, the village idiot, the holy fool, the simpleton, the moral fool, the oinseach, the amadan, Mad Sweeney, an pleota, an bobarzn agus
By Michael Karadjis
A declaration condemning the NATO attack on Serbia was released in
April by 17 organisations which have long opposed the Serb national chauvinist
regime of Slobodan Milosevic. Their stance reveals how little NATO's
By Norm Dixon
The Fiji Labour Party (FLP), the key partner in Fiji's coalition government deposed almost 12 years ago in a military coup led by Sitiveni Rabuka, scored a big win in Fiji's May 8-15 general election. For the first time, voting was
Fighting for democracy in China
HONG KONG — LEUNG KWOK HUNG and FRANCIS LAU, political activists in Hong Kong since the mid-'70s, talked to Green Left Weekly's EVA CHENG about the current state of workers' resistance and the struggle for
Murder and Ireland's 'peace process'
By Stuart Ross
The Pat Finucane Centre in Derry has recently published a 50-page report into the circumstances leading to the murder of one of Ireland's most prominent human rights lawyers, Rosemary Nelson. On
By Max Lane
Between May 14 and 16, delegates from militant worker committees from several cities around Indonesia met in Bandung and voted to form a new national workers' organisation, the Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggles (FNPBI).
Has someone raised the 'speed limit' on Australia's economy?
By Allen Myers
"These are some of the best conditions we've seen in Australia since the 1960s", treasurer Peter Costello declared on May 6. "We are still among the fastest growing
Churches and solidarity groups demand a free East Timor
By Janet Parker
SYDNEY — On May 20, the last of a series of Free East Timor pickets organised by Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) was held outside the Indonesian
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