Howard hanged
SYDNEY — On October 9, students at University of Western Sydney-Bankstown "hanged" Prime Minister John Howard!
Students found Howard guilty of attacking trade unions, the inhumane treatment of refugees, attacking and
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BY PIP HINMAN
Just four months ago, when Bush declared "major combat operations" in Iraq to be over, the US ruling class was sure its gamble to break international law, dismiss the UN and go against the unprecedented global opposition to the war
BY SUSAN AUSTIN
DUBLIN — Thousands of people are taking a stand against the introduction of a new household refuse-collection tax. After thousands of citizens refused to pay the tax, the government passed laws allowing local councils to stop
BY NORM DIXON
Israel's government on October 5 launched a missile attack on Syria, claiming that it was acting in "self-defence". The assault was the first Israeli strike into Syrian territory in 30 years. Israel declared that the missile strike
BY JANET BURSTALL
The Socialist Alliance in NSW will soon have its first chance to campaign in local government elections, which have been called for March 27. What are the issues and challenges?
Inequality in Australia corresponds very closely
The Weather UndergroundDirected by Sam Green and Bill SiegelScreening at the Glebe Valhalla, Sydney; coming soon to the Lumiere, Melbourne, and the [...], Brisbane
REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Weather Underground is a superb documentary which
BY ROHAN PEARCE
Considerable controversy exists on Wall Street over the awarding of contracts to US corporations by the Bush regime to "rebuild" Iraq. However, the controversy hasn't been that profit-hungry corporate vultures are seeking to make a
BY BARRY SHEPPARD
SAN FRANCISCO — The October 7 recall of Governor Gray Davis and the election of Hollywood movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger to replace him was a massive repudiation of the pro-big business policies of Davis' Democratic Party.
On October 5, PM John Howard increased his attacks on mothers who work full-time, with the announcement of the new "maternity allowance": a flat payment, probably of $5000, paid to all women who give birth. This is superior, Howard argued, to
BY MATTHEW DIMMOCK
BANGKOK — Authorities are striving to make this city look its best for the October 20-21 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. The race is on to "sanitise" Bangkok's streets, or at least the ones that foreign
BY DALE MILLS
On September 4, US President George Bush signed into law the Prison Rape Elimination Act. While the law does little more than provide funding for research and some counselling, it is at least a belated recognition that the massive US
[Radical "poet lorikeet" Denis Kevans, who joined the LBJ protests in Sydney and in Canberra, sent the following poem which he presented to "concerts, smoke-ohs and rallies". It was published and set to music in February 1962 when the anti-Vietnam
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