How does fire hurt
wire?
It slides down
and slams its face
right up close: this island
is a heart attack, the rocks
are weeping
tears
from where they cannot come.
The throat slows down
and the words sit
for days —
the
477
BY MAX LANE
There have been student demonstrations, involving hundreds of students, in Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Makassar, Denpasar and Jogjakarta against the fuel price increases announced by the Indonesian government on January 16.
In the
BY RICHARD PITHOUSE
DURBAN — On December 14, Justice Chris Botha of the Pretoria High Court found in favour of the Treatment Action Campaign's (TAC) action to force the South African government to make the anti-AIDS medicine nevirapine available
BY ERIC RUDER
CHICAGO — If the US government's "war on terrorism" had anything to do with stopping terrorism, the White House would be next in line. On January 11, President George Bush named Otto Reich as his assistant secretary of state for
BY JON LAND
As East Timor's Constituent Assembly draws closer to finalising the nation's constitution there is increasing debate over whether fresh elections should be held for the proposed Legislative Assembly. Chief Minister Mari Alkatiri is
BY JOHN McGILL
ADELAIDE — The Socialist Alliance will be contesting the seat of Adelaide in the February 9 South Australian election, providing a anti-privatisation, anti-nuclear and pro-refugee alternative to the Liberal and Labor parties.
The
BY ALISON DELLIT
In a month or so, federal cabinet will introduce laws into parliament which will criminalise political dissent and provide Australia's secret police services with more powers to harass protesters.
Cabinet is proposing to allow
Bloody Sunday commemoration
MELBOURNE — On January 30, SKATV will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday shootings in Ireland.
On Sunday 30th January 1972, British soldiers shot dead 13 unarmed civilians as they participated
Individual
Sleep deprivation, often seated in painful positions.
Painful handcuffing.
Beating, including targeting of genitals.
Prolonged incommunicado detention (described by the UN special rapporteur on torture as "itself a practice
BY ZANNY BEGG
As of January 20, the death toll of the hunger strike in Turkey's prisons reached 45 with two more prisoners dying in the first weeks of the New Year. More then 300 prisoners — mainly jailed for political offences — and their
BY MATT NICHTER
CHICAGO — With layoffs mounting, the unfolding economic recession is threatening the livelihoods of millions of working people.
Those saddled with debt — mortgages, car payments, college loans or big credit card balances —
BY NORM DIXON The International Socialist Organisation of Zimbabwe has strongly condemned moves by President Robert Mugabe's government to introduce "draconian semi-fascist laws" and the violent campaign launched by the ruling Zimbabwe African
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