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Government joins churches to attack homosexuals

BY SIMON BUTLER Federal employment minister Tony Abbott has come to the defence of Centacare, the Catholic Church's government-funded employment agency, arguing that it should be able to sack employees it discovers are homosexuals. Abbott's

TURKEY: Dam to displace 78,000 Kurds

A planned hydroelectric dam project in south-eastern Turkey will displace up to 78,000 people if international lending agencies and the British government provide financial support, according to a report leaked to British media. According to the

WEF threat to leave caused baton charge

BY SUSAN PRICE MELBOURNE — World Economic Forum officials threatened to "pack up and go home" at the end of the summit's first day on September 11 if police could not ensure more delegates were brought into the conference on time on September 12,

Socialists and the S11 blockade

The S11 blockade of the World Economic Forum meeting was an important opportunity for the parties of the left in Australia.

Web site records S11 protests

For a complete record of the three-day S11 protests against the World Economic Forum in Melbourne, check out Green Left Weekly's Global Action web site,http://www.greenleft.org.au/globalaction/s11. The site contains not only a comprehensive daily

SOUTH AFRICA: Can Thabo Mbeki change the world?

In this excerpt from the first Frantz Fanon Memorial Lecture, delivered on August 17 at the University of Durban-Westville School of Governance, PATRICK BOND debates Pretoria's global strategies, tactics and alliances. In a formidable speech on

Looking out: Get the message?

Get the message? We must stop succumbing to the rod's guileFor, like strong liquorIt quickly stupefies society's childLured and procuredWhile blindly pursuing cultural bileGrowing up insecureAs grown-up hypocrisies pileJuveniles like

RUSSIA: Disasters reveal regime's crisis

MOSCOW — August was a fateful month for the Russian authorities. There was a terrorist explosion in Pushkin Square, then the sinking of the nuclear submarine Kursk, and, on August 27, the Ostankino television tower caught fire. What happened to the

Loose cannons

Enviable "Jodee [Rich], Bradley [Keeling] and their team have achieved enviable results in a very short time ..." One.Tel chairperson John Greaves, defending bonuses of $6.9 million each to the joint managing directors in a year in which the

Left Focus sweeps Melbourne university elections

BY RAY FULCHER MELBOURNE — Left-wing students have won a landslide victory in elections for control of the Melbourne University Student Union, held here September 4-8. The Left Focus ticket won all office-bearer positions and won a majority on

S11 solidarity march in Perth

BY ALEX ROBINSON PERTH — There was so much community support for the S11 demonstration here that about 300 people joined the protest along the march route. The breadth of support was also reflected in the topics covered by speakers. Roberto

Castro proposes fight against AIDS epidemic

The United Nations Millennium Summit has been marked by the frequent expression of noble sentiments and lofty goals. Fewer have been the concrete measures proposed to reach those goals, and even fewer the leaders willing to point the finger at those