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Protest supports refugees

BY PAUL OBOOHOV CANBERRA — Protesters gathered outside the Belconnen office of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA) on August 20 to call for the freeing of the refugees. Many participants had been shocked by the August

'A new era' for the NT

BY RUTH RATCLIFFE DARWIN — "A new era for the territory begins today", proclaimed the August 23 NT News editorial, the day after Chief Minister Denis Burke formally conceded that the 26-year reign of the Country Liberal Party over the Northern

SOUTH AFRICA: 'Landlessness = Racism' campaign launched

BY NORM DIXON The South African Landless People's Movement (LPM) on August 16 launched a "Landlessness = Racism" campaign to highlight the issue of land hunger during United Nations World Conference Against Racism, and the preceding Non-Government

SOUTH AFRICA: ANC to 'criminalise' landless movement

BY NORM DIXON On the eve of the August 27-September 7 United Nations World Conference Against Racism in Durban, the South African government has announced plans to penalise "instigators" of so-called "land invasions". On August 13, housing

AMWU to protest outside CBF

BY JULIAN COPPENS MELBOURNE — The Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union decided at its August 22 state council meeting to demonstrate outside Prime Minister John Howard's October 3 "Inaugural Ceremony and Dinner Address"

Candidate plans hunger strike

BY ARUN PRADHAN MELBOURNE — Jorge Jorquera, the Socialist Alliance's candidate for the western suburbs seat of Gellibrand, has said he will go on a three-day hunger strike outside the Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre to protest the

Union to join independent breaching inquiry

BY JIM MCILROY BRISBANE — The Community and Public Sector Union has announced it will join an independent inquiry, launched by a range of community organisations, into the federal government's "breaching" policy, which has led to Centrelink

Networker: FBI recruitment

FBI recruitment Max Vision lived in the shadowy world of cyberspace, that collection of networks and computers where fantasy becomes real and reality is whatever you want it to be. Cyberspace is an abstraction, a way to speak about activity on

Resistance in action

subh = New Resistance branch launched @box text intr = MELBOURNE — Resistance's new Melbourne north-east branch was launched in Northcote's Caf‚ 303 on August 18. Seventy people celebrated the new branch, listening to music from Jupiter Sound,

'A different world is possible'

BY ANGELA LUVERA "Around the world young people are radicalising through the new anti-corporate globalisation movement. In some cases this has meant putting their lives directly on the line such as in Indonesia, PNG and at the recent mass protests

Labor to guard the coasts

BY SARAH STEPHEN Opposition spokesperson Con Sciacca has stated that the latest influx of asylum seekers showed the government's approach was not acting as a deterrent. "For all their bravado and chest-beating, Prime Minister John Howard and

WESTERN SAHARA: A Saharawi woman's plea

BY STEPHANIE BRENNAN SMARA REFUGEE CAMP, Algeria — As our battered four-wheel drive makes its way through the desert into the outskirts of the Wilaya, dozens of small dusty children run out to meet us looking for sweets — caramello, caramello?