GERMANY: Authorities' hypocrisy on racist violence
KIEL — After years of racist crimes perpetrated against immigrants and refugees, Germany's establishment is giving the impression that it is finally willing to act to stop it. This follows a bomb
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Every home should have one
I wonder if I could have a few moments of your time? I feel that it is my responsibility sometimes to remind the reading public that a society such as ours goes about its everyday business often with strict regard to
EAST TIMOR: Jose Ramos Horta: 'CNRT will cease to exist'
EAST TIMOR: Jose Ramos Horta: 'CNRT will cease to exist'
DILI — Speaking at a meeting of the just weeks-old East Timor Press Club on August 12, Jose Ramos Horta, vice-president of the
Strike at Edith Cowan University
BY CLAUDIA FRENTE
PERTH — All four campuses of Edith Cowan University were reduced to ghost towns here on August 16 and 17, thanks to militant union picketers, some of whom were forced to join the picket lines
Imposing whose will?
"If they [the protesters] go ahead with threats to shut the forum down then we will take appropriate steps to ensure people can go about their business without intimidation by a group of people seeking to impose their will on
BY KIM BULLIMORE
SYDNEY — Citing noise complaints, damage to the park and disruption to park users, but denying accusations of racism or Olympics-inspired paranoia, the mayor of South Sydney John Fowler has sought and received a court injunction
The World Economic Forum's (WEF) Asia-Pacific Economic Summit in Melbourne, September 11-13, will bring together 800 representatives of the world's largest transnational corporations and some of the region's most senior capitalist politicians for
What the Olympics really celebrate
BY ZANNY BEGG
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has spent $230 million on a series of advertisements around the theme "celebrate humanity". This exercise in "global branding" is supposed to encourage us
The names that didn't appear centre stage at the Democratic Party convention in Los Angeles are the ones that will actually pay for the event — names like General Motors, British Petroleum, Microsoft and AT&T. These corporations are
MALAYSIA: Penans appeal for international help
More than a hundred Penan people, from various settlements in the interior of Sarawak, have gathered at Long Kevok to stage a non-violent protest against sustained logging activities in their communal
Books of Fidel's speeches launched
BY GAIL LORD
SYDNEY — Cuba's consul general in Australia, Maria Luisa Fernandez, on August 9 spoke to a full Resistance Centre in Parramatta when she launched two new books containing recent speeches by Cuba's
'Waste Minchin, not SA!'
BY JIM GREEN
ADELAIDE — About 4000 people protested against the federal Coalition government's plan to dump radioactive waste in northern South Australia at a rally on the steps of Parliament House here on August 16.
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