BY SUSAN PRICE
MANILA — While the spin doctors of neo-liberal globalisation promote its supposed "benefits" to women, participants from 13 countries at the Asian Workshop on Women and Globalisation arrived at an alternative conclusion.
The
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BY KAREN FLETCHER
BRISBANE — In a keynote address to the Women in Prison Conference on November 28, African-American feminist and anti-prison campaigner Angela Davis revealed that are now more armed Immigration and Naturalization Service agents
BY SEAN HEALY
The crisis-wracked Argentine economy looks likely to take another battering after the International Monetary Fund on December 6 announced it blocked a US$1.3 billion loan which the government had hoped would lessen its financial
BY SUSAN PRICE
MANILA — November 30 — Bonifacio Day, and this year the 129th birthday of one of the Philippines' national proletarian heroes — became a day and night of mobilisation and protest by radical forces against the government of
BY MAX LANE
The cities and towns of the northern province of Aceh were almost like ghost towns on December 4, the 25th anniversary of the GAM, the Free Aceh Movement.
In the two largest cities, Banda Aceh and Lhokseumawe, all public transport
No racism!
BY TAMARA PEARSON
Across Australia, thousands rallied on December 9 to commemorate International Human Rights Day. While the theme of the event varied across the country, the dominant demands were: "Stop the war in Afghanistan!" and
BY MARIA VOUKELATOS
MELBOURNE - Anti-war student and community activists met at the University of Melbourne on December 2-3 to discuss the challenges facing the anti-war movement.
The conference, organised by the National Union of Students (NUS)
Israel
Sorry, Philip Mendes, but Narendra Mohan Kommalapati is quite clear in denouncing the State of Israeli as a racist state, while you muddily mix up the Israeli state and the population that lives under its misrule.
The state is a weapon of
BY JANE ARMANASCO
PERTH — As a homophobic campaign rages in Western Australia, the November 6 sacking of Edith Cowan University Catholic chaplain Father David Watt has raised questions about how best to defend gay and lesbian rights.
Watt was
BY NICK FREDMAN
LISMORE — Sugar mill workers across northern New South Wales have won a substantial victory over Sunshine Sugar. The company had attempted to cut the workers' real pay and demanded compulsory work on public holidays in recent
BY SARAH STEPHEN
"The challenge facing those in Australia who understand and act upon urgent issues, such as the treatment of asylum seekers, or the issue of racism in general, is to draw together a national focus or campaign that brings direct
BY SEAN HEALY
US President George Bush junior always promised that his "war on terrorism" would be waged on many fronts, in every corner of the world. And he's delivered: because, just as the war in Afghanistan seems to be nearing an end, the war
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