BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
PERTH — Ali Kazak, the head of the Palestinian delegation to Australia, spoke to over 200 people during his recent visit to Western Australia.
Organised by the NoWar Alliance, the tour enabled Kazak to explain firsthand the
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BY EVA CHENG
To get Third World countries to agree to a new round of global talks on trade rules, in November 2001, at the Doha ministerial summit, US President George Bush's administration supported a declaration that reaffirmed the right of
BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
MELBOURNE — Dr Fikret Baskaya is a 63-year-old Turkish intellectual who has been imprisoned twice for criticising the strategy of the Turkish state in dealing with the issue of Kurdistan. Baskaya spoke at packed public
BY PIP HINMAN
The 58th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima takes place in a year that has been marked by the biggest mass anti-war protests ever to take place before a war had been launched.
Some 30 million people took part in the
BY JESS MELVIN
MELBOURNE — On July 21, the Age newspaper reported on "scandals" of mismanagement and abuse within the Melbourne University Student Union (MUSU). Since then, regular follow-up articles have continued to argue that the union is in
SYDNEY — "Afghanistan has become a forgotten story once again", said Tahmeena Faryal, a representative of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), during her recent speaking tour of Australia.
"A lot was promised by the
BY ALLEN MYERS
PHNOM PENH — The Cambodian People's Party (CPP) won a decisive victory on July 27 in elections to Cambodia's National Assembly. However, the two largest losing parties are attempting to mount a campaign against the result.
The
BY SUE BOLTON
MELBOURNE — The case against 16 of the unionists charged over protests at the Johnson Tiles factory and the Skilled Engineering offices on June 15, 2001, was finalised at the county court on July 30.
The 16 unionists, members of
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
PERTH — The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) has won a dispute with Adsteam Marine at a gas pipe-laying project off the north-west coast of Western Australia. The workers walked off the job because of serious safety concerns.
On July 27, 300 junior officers and soldiers staged a mutiny. They condemned conditions for troops in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and charged the government and military with corruption and state terrorism. Green Left Weekly's NICK
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
SYDNEY — The buzz of 60 talkative union activists was an auspicious precursor to the formal speaking platform at the Socialist Alliance's July 30 forum at the Gaelic Club on union struggles.
Shane Bentley, who received 44% of
RAMALLAH — On July 24, the Palestinian education department released a report on the impact of Israel's occupation on the education sector. It found that at least 592 Palestinian students and education workers have been killed between the eruption
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