Jenny Long, Sydney
In the NSW "minibudget" brought down by NSW Labor Treasurer Michael Egan on March 30, it was announced that the NSW Department for Women (DFW) would be abolished and responsibility for its programs would be transferred to the NSW
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Sue Bolton, Melbourne
May 21 marked a victory for militant unionism. While many unionists were expecting former Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian branch secretary Craig Johnston to be imprisoned after he had pleaded guilty to
Rupen Savoulian
In a spectacularly defiant act, on May 9, Chechen rebels killed the Russian-sponsored president of Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov, by remote-controlled bomb in a stadium where dignitaries were gathered to commemorate the 59th anniversary
Americans are honorary Iraqis
"Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destabilise their country." — Emperor George Bush II, May 5.
On Bushworld
"You've got to understand that military options are always my
More than 2000 people rallied in Trafalgar Square on May 15 to demand that the wall built by Israel be halted and dismantled. The rally called for the withdrawal of Israeli troops and settlers from the West Bank and Gaza Strip.From Green Left Weekly,
Robyn Marshall, Caracas
On the morning of May 9, the government television channel announced that 55 Colombian paramilitaries had been captured by Venezuelan national investigative police, DISIP, at a farm in Baruta, a municipality in southeastern
Bobby Fischer Goes to War: The True Story of How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All TimeBy David Edmonds and John EidnowFaber and Faber, 2004302 pages, $39.95(hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
"This little thing between me and
Sister Susan Connelly
This anniversary is tinged with a lot of embarrassment for us as Australians. Despite all East Timor has been through, more often than not with Australian connivance and reluctance to help or tell the whole truth, today the
In a May 11 press release, childcare lobby group Community Child Care (NSW) stated that "by re-announcing old initiatives and talking up their additional out of school hours places, the prime minister and treasurer will attempt to hide the fact that
In the last few years, the NZ Alliance has undergone big upheaval. Green Left Weekly's Sibylle Kaczorek spoke to Mike Treen, the foreign affairs spokesperson of the NZ Alliance, when he was in Australia for the Socialist Alliance's third national
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Murris march against ATSIC abolition
BRISBANE — Around 200 Murris and supporters rallied in the Roma Street Forum and marched to the offices of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission on May 20. The protest
Rohan Pearce
In Green Left Weekly #582, Toma Hamid and Jalal Mohammad, members of the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq (WCPI) residing in Australia and of the Socialist Alliance, took issue with the analysis of the Iraqi armed resistance movement
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