BY NGLINTING DARMONO
YOGYAKARTA — There's no such thing as a wholly "natural" disaster. The recent catastrophic floods in Jakarta and along the northern coast of Java, which claimed at least 200 lives, were no exception.
The Dutch colonial
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
In order to defend the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, both Labor and Coalition governments have had to convince the Australian people that it is both necessary and justifiable to treat those who arrive in Australia without
BY RUSSELL PICKERING
PERTH — The state Labor government is under fire from civil-liberty groups for attempting introduce draconian legislation, known locally as the "anti-gang laws". The ALP rushed the bill into parliament last year soon after
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BY TAFADZWA CHOTO
HARARE — Around 1500-2000 people mobilised on February 15 under the slogan, "No to dictatorship, no to neo-liberal poverty". Earlier that day, the High Court had refused hear the organisers' urgent application against the
Cuban tours
MELBOURNE — More than 60 people met on February 20 for a public forum titled "From Cuba to Argentina: popular resistance to war and neo-liberal globalisation". Barbara Cantero, a representative of the Cuban Communist Youth (UJC),
Since forming in 1994, after what they call "a brief interlude on public transport", Regurgitator has cut four full-length albums and flirted with every music style except polka and yodelling. The band rates as a highlight of its career "a 5am
BY PIP HINMAN
The last time I was prevented from attending a political meeting was in Indonesia last June. The paramilitary police, together with their right-wing militia friends, shut down the Jakarta Asia Pacific People's Solidarity Conference
BY JACKIE LYNCH
MELBOURNE — Fifty people attended a Socialist Alliance barbeque in Northcote's Jika Jika Community Centre on February 16 to launch the alliance's election campaign for the Darebin council.
The Socialist Alliance is standing
Museworthy: The Unshared
Our hearts are shrinking to fit our leader's chestThe press have been speaking with him againand he fills their papers and screens with wordswhich excuse himIn whose eyes?Does anyone look?From his hands grow the shadows
BY BERNIE WUNSCH
LISMORE — The refugee solidarity movement in the Northern Rivers
region has grown rapidly. Around 400 people attended pro-refugee meetings
in the space of four days.
The February 15 launch of the Lismore chapter of
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
The campaign against leftist President Hugo Chavez, led by local big business interests and backed by Washington, has rapidly escalated in recent months, with more and more talk of the need to remove Chavez.
On November 5-7,
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