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Anti-refugee policy can be abolished

Anti-refugee policy can be abolished Prime Minister John Howard and immigration minister Philip Ruddock stood firm throughout the two-week hunger strike by asylum seekers in the Woomera detention centre. Some said this was proof that

COLOMBIA: US intervention escalates

BY NORM DIXON The United States has escalated its intervention in the civil war in Colombia with its February 5 announcement that Washington will help Colombia "protect" a strategic oil pipeline that is a frequent target of guerilla attacks. The

Action updates

Protesters storm Grand Chancellor Hotel HOBART — US ambassador Tom Shieffer was met on February 7 by protesters chanting, "Drop the debt, not the bomb". Shieffer was in Hobart to speak to a luncheon of the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and

Museworthy: Advertising Works (for Morris Dees)

Museworthy: Advertising Works (for Morris Dees) The ad said "Soft On Crime"the black man was out of prisonon work release and did what prisonersdo on that, committed a crimeAttacked a white woman in a photoon telly in a wedding dress (white)

Woomera detention centre: 'an atmosphere of despair'

BY SARAH STEPHEN A five-day fact-finding mission to the Woomera detention centre, conducted by Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (HREOC) officers, has produced a damning report. The February 6 report, produced as part of a

People act in solidarity with refugees

They are not alone! @box text intr = WOLLONGONG — Drizzly rain couldn't stop more than 100 people acting in solidarity with refugees in the Wollongong mall on February 7. The candlelight vigil, organised by the Illawarra Refugee Action Collective

Pilger speaks

BY MAX LANE PERTH — Almost 700 people turned out on February 4 to hear John Pilger condemn the corporate media bias in coverage of, and academic silence on, the so-called war against terrorism, refugees, globalisation and Australian government

Socialists excluded from Sydney Palm Sunday Committee

BY NICK EVERETT On February 5, I attended a meeting of Sydney's Palm Sunday Committee on behalf of the Free the Refugees Campaign (FRC). I had received an email that day from Labor for Refugees co-convenor Amanda Tattersall that explained, "there

Activist denied visa for stepfather's funeral

BY LUKE WILLIAMS Peter Tatchell, renowned for his fight for gay liberation and human rights, has been denied a visa to Australia. The debacle has prevented him from attending his stepfather's funeral. He was refused entry despite repeated requests

Bush's racist war on the Third World

By Leigh Hughes "Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United

Write on: Letters to the editor

Nutters I'm scared! I am afraid! I really am frightened — that great superpower (the United States of America) is now being ruled by nutters — a cabal of nutters. Its president, and his mates (Richard Wolfowitz in particular) are talking of

SCOTLAND: Socialist MP puts up school meals bill

BY SARAH PEART GLASGOW — The latest report released by the National Child Helpline (NCH) Scotland on January 22 shows that 310,000 children (42%) across Scotland are living in poverty. It also shows that nearly half of all children live in