By Marce Cameron and Sarah Peart
"The world economic order works for 20% of the population but it leaves out, demeans and degrades the remaining 80%. We simply cannot accept to enter the next century as the backward, poor and exploited rearguard;
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BY ROBERTO JORQUERA
PERTH — The Deaths in Custody Watch Committee launched its prisoner rights campaign at a public meeting attended by 100 people here on January 24.
"The time is long overdue for a broad-ranging and concerted community
[The following is a slightly abridged version of a letter addressed to "all left parties and individuals" posted on the internet on January 25. It was signed by John Percy, national secretary of the Democratic Socialist Party, and Peter Boyle, the
BY BEN COURTICE
MELBOURNE — Despite it being a profitable enterprise, the Chef whitegoods factory in Brunswick faces closure by its new owner, Email. The company owns a competing factory and now, having bought out its opposition, is planning to
'Never Race and class in the US: trust a son
of a Bush'
BY MALIK MIAH
SAN FRANCISCO Never trust a son of a Bush. This was one of many
signs at George W. Bush's presidential inauguration in Washington on January
20. Some 25,000
BY JIM GREEN
Three-hundred and sixty irradiated fuel rods were secretly shipped out of the nuclear reactor plant in the southern Sydney suburb of Lucas Heights on January 22.
The irradiated (or "spent") fuel rods — vastly more radioactive than
Editorial: Close the detention centres!
Philip Ruddock, the federal minister for racism, has argued that
last week's protests by asylum seekers at the Port Hedland detention facility
were caused by a small group of troublemakers who were
BY BEN COLLINS
MELBOURNE — Protesters staged a sit-in on the roof of the Maribyrnong detention centre here on January 24 to protest the appalling conditions in the centre and the policy of detaining asylum seekers.
Seven protesters climbed onto
BY MAX LANE
In an end of year "state of the nation" report, the central leadership council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PRD) described economic developments during 2000 under the government of President Abdurrahman Wahid and Vice-President
BY NORM DIXON
The United States' biggest corporations delivered more than US$35 million in 31 days to pay for George W. Bush's January 19-20 inauguration parties, the New York Times reported on January 18.
Most of the money came in separate
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REVIEW BY BARRY HEALY
If you are going to trip down memory lane, you should at least go with someone who knows the meaning of
BY VIV MILEY
With more allegations emerging of full fee-paying students receiving preferential treatment and soft marking and universities accepting bribes, Australia's tertiary education system appears to be in a state of serious decay.
The
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