SYDNEY — The refugees'
rights campaign came to the western Sydney suburb of Fairfield on June
15. Around 30 people took part in a march organised by the western Sydney
Resistance branch to promote the June 23 National Refugee Week actions.
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BY LOUIS PROYECT
NEW YORK — Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould died on May 20 of cancer at the age of 60. Not only was he the best known scientist in the United States, he was a committed progressive who served on the advisory board of the Brecht
BY DICK NICHOLS
In the April 21 first round of France's presidential elections, 2.84 million people (10.44%) voted for far-left candidates, chiefly Lutte Ouvriere (LO) and the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR). On June 9, in the first round of
BY EVA CHENGÂ
Thousands rallied on June 13 in at least nine cities across India
and Pakistan to protest against the war drive and the threat of nuclear
devastation on the subcontinent.
“How can arms traders be peace-brokers?” was a
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
SYDNEY — The first Australian delegation allowed into the devastated Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank returned to Australia with emotional and harrowing stories. The delegation included union movement activists and a
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Only 40 of the 327 Afghans on Nauru who have had their claims processed have been accepted as refugees. "The rest may have perfectly rational fears of famine, lawlessness and postwar devastation, but they don't count", declared the
BY JORGE JORQUERA
HAVANA — In front of us in the throng marched a man holding a flag emblazoned with Che Guevara's face and the slogan Hasta la victoria siempre (To victory ever onwards). His arm did not bend once to rest as we passed the Office
BY CHRIS LATHAM
PERTH — On June 1, Iranian asylum seeker Nader Sayadi Estahbanati was deported from Esperance in WA on the Iranian freighter Mazardaran.
In 2000, Estahbanati and two friends stowed away on the Mazardaran to flee persecution in
BY SIMON WHITTLE
The Sex Pistols re-released their anti-monarchist anthem “God Save
the Queen” at the end of May, 25 years after the national uproar the record
received on its original release back in 1977. It was again timed to clash
with
BY SARAH PEART
& MATT PRESTON
GLASGOW — Joining Kylie Minogue and XXXX beer in the list of embarrassing
Australian exports to Britain is Canberra's racist policies towards asylum
seekers. Judging by the British Labour government's
BY SARAH STEPHEN
I participated in a work brigade in East Timor from May 13 to 26, organised by Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor/Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific (ASIET/ASAP).
Seven people made the trip to Dili to
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