REVIEW BY LISA MACDONALD
In the prologue to his new book, Tariq Ali writes: "Tragedies are
always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy
is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11
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BY ERIN KILLION
CANBERRA — Labor Senator Kate Lundy has spoken out against the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, saying that the policy "in its current form is not an acceptable way to process asylum seekers" and that "children should never
The dullest of records were
old Factory Reports bound, called “Blue
Books”. List of figures, translations of workers'
lives tossed about in debate
and later boredom. Members
of Parliament used these for target
practice (the force of
BY WILL WILLIAMS
WOLLONGONG — "Seventy-nine-year-old great-grandfather, tribal initiate, retired coal-miner, unabashed socialist and enduring activist", was how the May 7 Illawarra Mercury described Fred Moore after the Wollongong Trade Union
Museworthy: Suffering, Related to Ownership'
Privilege —
someone else's suffering.
What I should have
refused
before I needed
to give it away.
BY MTC CRONIN
MTC Cronin has had seven books of poetry
CFMEU
Gary McCarthy's tirade against the CFMEU NSW construction division [Write
On, GLW #486] cannot go unanswered. The CFMEU does not claim to
have led the anti-apartheid movement or the green bans of the 1970s. The
Building Workers
BY ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE — After 164 years of dispossession and colonisation, Yorta
Yorta people have entered a new chapter of their long search for justice
and land rights. On May 23, the High Court heard an appeal by the Yorta
Yorta
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — "The workers united will never be defeated", 300 unionists chanted, led by Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) national secretary John Maitland, on May 22. The event was a public meeting, titled "They
and aint i a woman: Playing the game
When did you last sit down and watch hours of women's sport on TV? Probably never, because women's sport is barely visible in the corporate media. But according to columnist Miranda Devine, it is women's
BY EVA CHENG
In Gujarat state, where since February Hindu fundamentalist violence has killed more than 2000 people, mostly Muslims, and terrorised many thousands more, the local government plans to force 100,000 Muslim refugees out of relief camps.
BY LYNDA HANSEN & JULIE WEBB-PULLMAN
BRISBANE — Latin American solidarity activists here have combined forces to launch a campaign to free five Cubans imprisoned in the United States on espionage charges.
The "Miami Five", as they have come to
BY JACKIE LYNCH
MELBOURNE — A joint meeting to explore the links between unionists and environmentalists was held on May 22. Jack Mundey, former NSW Builders Labourers Federation leader and environmental activist, addressed 70 people who were
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