BY MAX LANE
Leaders of a militant union, including former political prisoner Dita Sari, have been arrested by Indonesian police during a crackdown on striking workers.
One thousand workers from fifteen branches of the Matahari Putra Prima
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BY JO ELLIS
DARWIN — On November 6, 50 people attended a forum organised by the No to War and Racism collective (NOWAR). Under the slogan "War is not the answer", the speakers addressed how peace can be achieved.
Prath Prathapan, president of
Freelance photographer John Immig has an eye for the unusual and the militant in his series of recent photographs documenting the rise of new anti-war movement. While some of his shots will be featured in coming issues of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, they are
BY EVA CHENG
As Washington's war against Afghanistan neared the end of its first month, US President George Bush raised the stakes by introducing the highly lethal 6800-kilogram "Daisy Cutter" bomb.
"Like a nuclear weapon without the fallout" is
BY BELINDA SELKE
WOLLONGONG — It was standing room only in Wollongong Town Hall at a public forum organised by the Refugee Action Collective on November 8, as more than 300 people were addressed by Labor MHR for Cunningham Stephen Martin, Iraqi
And ain't I a woman: Women peace campaigners intimidated
On September 24, Kate Raphael, a left-wing Jewish activist who lives in Berkeley, California, was approached by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, who attempted to question her
BY FIDEL CASTRO
[The following is an abridged version of the first part of a nationally televised address given on November 2 by Cuban President Fidel Castro.]
To characterise the current situation, one could say, by way of a very brief summary,
BY MICHAEL KARADJIS
Following the September 11 World Trade Center atrocity, the US produced a list of countries which allegedly "harbour terrorists" or where "terrorists" have bases. In the Balkans the list consisted of Bosnia, Albania, Macedonia
BY CHRISTOPHER PERKINS
WOLLONGONG — The year-long Illawarra TAFE library industrial dispute came to an end on November 1 with the signing of a dispute resolution agreement that restricts temporary staffing arrangements across the Illawarra
Iranian Filmmaker Tahmineh Milani faces execution if convicted in her trial in Tehran. Milani was arrested on the orders of Iran's Revolutionary Council as she was promoting the film The Hidden Half, which she wrote and directed.
The Hidden Half
BY ALISON DELLIT
"We stood up for our principles against the power of the major parties and we have stood tall", indigenous activist Sam Watson, the lead Senate candidate for the Socialist Alliance in Queensland, told the alliance's Brisbane
Noam Chomsky, a longtime political activist, writer, and professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of numerous books and articles on US foreign policy, international affairs, and human rights. He was
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