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LATIN AMERICA: Pushed to the edge by the IMF

BY LEE SUSTAR US treasury secretary Paul O'Neill caused a stir — and a financial panic — when he declared that any money loaned to Brazil by the International Monetary Fund would end up in "Swiss bank accounts". He should have looked a

SOUTH AFRICA: End the harassment of anti-WSSD activists!

JOHANNESBURG — On August 17, about 100 members of the Soldiers Forum (SF), an affiliate of the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF), were arrested and thrown into jail, where they still remain, for no other reason than the fact that they wanted to

Afghan refugee speaks at La Trobe Uni

BY KATIE NEVILLE & ADAM BOTTOMLEY MELBOURNE — Sydney Afghan temporary protection visa holder Riz Wakil spoke to an audience of 120 people at an August 14 campus meeting organised by the La Trobe University Refugee Action Collective.

AMWU printing division: 'We're not going to bend to bully-boy tactics'

BY SUE BOLTON "We're not going to have a situation where someone can be attacked because of internal [union] political differences. The printing division [of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union's Victorian branch] will not stand for it",

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Ruddock's refugee tribunal biased

BY SARAH STEPHEN The August 8 High Court decision that the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) had denied two applicants "natural justice" when its members lied about having studied all the material the applicants had submitted with their initial

Community versus globalisation

No Toxic Dump By Paul Strangio Pluto Press Australia, 2001 $24.95 (pb) REVIEWED BY BEN COURTICE Paul Strangio introduces No Toxic Dump by comparing the two buzzwords “globalisation” and “community”. While “the revival of community

COLOMBIA: US demands immunity for its soldiers

BY ALFREDO CASTRO BOGOTA — US under-secretary of state for political affairs Marc Grossman led a delegation of senior US political and military leaders to Colombia to hold talks with the government of newly elected President Ivaro Uribe

Uni students support 'refugee sanctuary'

BY PETER ROBSON NEWCASTLE — "Today, I want to tell you what it is like to be a refugee in Australia. I want to tell you what it is like to flee war and repression and only find more oppression. I am no longer in a detention centre, but now it

New anti-war coalition launched

BY NICK EVERETT SYDNEY — A "No War on Iraq" coalition was founded at a meeting on August 22 attended by representatives of the Greens, the Socialist Alliance, the Worker Communist Party of Iraq, as well as the National Union of Students, Labor

Abortion legalised in the ACT

BY JOSEPHINE HUNT CANBERRA — On the evening of August 21, the ACT Legislative Assembly voted nine to eight to take abortion out of the Crimes Act and repeal other anti-choice legislation, giving the ACT the most progressive abortion (non-) law

NSW AMWU printing delegates condemn sacking

BY SUE BOLTON SYDNEY — Delegates from the NSW printing division of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union met on August 22 to discuss the sacking of national industrial officer for the printing division, Denis Matson, by AMWU national