BY PIP HINMAN
Australia-based Scottish academic LESLEY McCULLOCH and US nurse Joy-Lee Sadler were arrested in Indonesian-occupied south Aceh on September 11. They were beaten, harassed and jailed for five months and four months respectively on
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BY
PETER BOYLE
GLASGOW The Scottish Socialist Party may win up to eight candidates
in the May 1 elections for the Scottish parliament. At the very least,
sole SSP parliamentarian Tommy Sheridan told the annual SSP conference
on February
BY
LAUREN CARROLL HARRIS
SYDNEY I believe that young people will be especially affected
by the war, and that is one of the reasons why opposition to the war among
youth and students is so strong, Karol Florek told Green Left Weekly.
BY
SUE BOLTON
Over the past four weeks, several trade unions have passed motions
to take stop work action against the threatened war on Iraq. Mobilising
the ranks of the unions, the largest organisations of working people, will
be crucial
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Contract scab labour could be used on the Suncorp Stadium project in a bid to break a strike by building unions. The federal government's building industry task force has offered "safe passage" to contract labourers in a
BY
TAMARA PEARSON
HARARE At 8am, people here wait in long queues for the shops and
banks to open. Milk is scarce, and salt and oil can only be obtained at
ridiculous prices on the black market. Cars form 1-kilometre-long queues
for
In a revelation that "raises questions about whether the [weapons of mass destruction] stockpiles attributed to Iraq still exist", Newsweek's March 3 issue reported that the Iraqi weapons chief who defected from the regime in 1995 told UN inspectors
Sect outlook
In her discussion article in GLW #526, presenting the Freedom Socialist Party's view of the future of the Socialist Alliance, Alison Thorne argues that the SA cannot become a vehicle for regroupment of the socialist left into a united,
BY KATE STOCKDALE
DARWIN — Local community organisations, politicians and activists — meeting regularly as the Refugee Action Network (RAN) — are campaigning to allow all 1800 East Timorese asylum seekers to stay in Australia.
A public
BY DEBRA PAYNE
LONDON — Many people on the Februray 15 London anti-war march hadn't been on a march before. But I had and let me tell you it was terrific.
I was on one of 25 buses that left Nottingham for London, along with 300 buses from
Already this year,
dozens of groups have been formed on high schools, organising students
to protest against war on Iraq and the accompanying slaughter of the Iraqi
people. The socialist youth organisation Resistance has put together some
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
SYDNEY Sixty unionists attended a meeting organised by the NSW
Labor Council on February 26 to discuss the impending war on Iraq and the
response of the unions.
ALP foreign affairs spokesperson Kevin Rudd described the
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