Hundreds of people, mostly women, gathered at the Kuala Lumpur City Centre on June 4 for a peaceful protest calling for the abolishment of the Internal Security Act, the ISA, and to express their support for those being detained under the law.
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BY JACKIE LYNCH
MELBOURNE — In the same week that the Victorian Ombudsman cleared police of accusations of violence at last year's S11 protests, an activist who "pied" the Victorian premier has been sentenced to prison.
Victorian Ombudsman
BY MALIK MIAH
SAN FRANCISCO — There is an old saying: "When your neighbour is out of work, that's a recession; when you're out of work, it's a depression". In California, the wealthiest state in the United States (and the sixth largest economy in
WELLINGTON — East Timorese leader Jose Ramos Horta, currently cabinet member for foreign affairs, told Radio New Zealand International on June 7 that his country cannot support West Papua's demand for independence from Indonesia. Horta said East
Criticising the German Greens is like shooting fish in a barrel, but why bother? The answer is simple: the party has successfully spread confusion amongst environmentalists and anti-nuclear campaigners.
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — In its first election campaign, in the by-election for the federal seat of Aston, the newly-formed Socialist Alliance plans to put the street back into street campaigning, calling an anti-GST protest for Wantirna on June
BY SEAN HEALY
Swedish riot police have opened fire with live ammunition on anti-capitalist protesters, injuring three, one critically, in a desperate attempt to put down demonstrations in Gothenburg against a summit of European Union leaders.
It
BY PHIL HEARSE
LONDON — Candidates of the Socialist Alliance and the Scottish Socialist Party won more than 129,000 votes in the June 7 British general election. In England and Wales constituencies, Socialist Alliance candidates won an average of
REVIEWED BY KEITH MACKIE
When I first read a review of The Star Fraction by Ken McLeod I had to go out and get a copy of it immediately. Described as the first Trotskyist science-fiction novel, it is set in the future, but is an allegory on
BY PETER BOYLE
At 6pm on Saturday June 9, 24 hours after the detained foreign participants at the Asia Pacific People's Solidarity Conference were first brought to Jakarta's central police HQ, the remaining 30 foreign detainees were allowed to
The police raid on the Asia-Pacific Peoples Solidarity Conference on June 8 was just one more in a string of actions taken by the Indonesian police, often working hand in glove with militia gangs, to push back the democratic space won by the student-led mass movement which forced the resignation of former dictator Suharto in May, 1998.
In a recent "event" put on for the media to highlight cuts to education funding, the Newcastle University Students' Association president and education officer dressed in drag and "prostituted" themselves on Maitland Road, Islington, Newcastle's
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