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CUBA: Global environment more threatened than ever

BY FELIPE PEREZ [The following speech by Cuban foreign minister Felipe Perez Rocque was given at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg on September 3. It has been slightly abridged.] Ten years ago [at the first Earth Summit

Young feminist to stand for women's officer position

BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — Feminist activist Anthea Stutter is running for the position of Tasmania University Union women's officer on a Resistance ticket. Elections are being held September 10-14. Stutter helped organise International

SRC censors refugee campaign

BY GRANT COLEMAN& AMY PARISH WOLLONGONG — Facing a concerted campaign of censorship by the Young Liberal-dominated Students' Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Wollongong, the Refugee Action Collective (RAC) has decided to push

Afghan refugees to be interviewed on Channel 31

BY SIMON TAYLER SYDNEY — The capitalist media has consistently demonstrated its bias on the issue of asylum seekers. While the federal government and right-wing commentators are given regular coverage, it's rare for the stories of asylum

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Demystifying Nazism

GabrielWritten by Moira BuffiniDirected by Kevin JacksonWith Elaine Hudson, Lee Lewis, Elisha Oliver, Pete Nettell and Wendy StrehlowNew Theatre, SydneyUntil September 14 REVIEW BY IGGY KIM Gabriel is a wonderfully acted and intensely

Refugees, religion and the war on terror

BY ADRIAN D'HAGE On August 29, I was tuned in to Sandy McCutcheon's Australia Talks Back, on the ABC's Radio National, when the subject of asylum seekers came up and a somewhat agitated lady with a very cultured voice rang in from Perth. "This

Dayson takes legal action against AMWU

BY LIAM MITCHELL SYDNEY — The 15th week of the strike at Dayson's air-conditioning compressor reconditioning plant saw a dramatic shift in the company's attitude after having been forced into negotiations with the Australian Manufacturing

Ruddock shouted down

BY TAMARA PEARSON SYDNEY — Despite fancy audio technology, immigration minister Philip Ruddock could not be heard over angry chants when visiting the University of NSW on September 3 to address the Law Society on Australia's immigration

Trade unionism Abbott and Cameron-style

BY CHRIS CAIN The picture says it all. On a recent visit to the offices of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian branch, I quickly learnt the full history of a very nasty dispute. At the time, there was a picket outside the

What Ruddock doesn't want you to know

BY KATHY NEWNAM& PETER ROBSON NEWCASTLE — In one of the largest refugee rights meetings to be held in Newcastle, nearly 200 people packed the Town Hall on August 31 to hear immigration minister Philip Ruddock's lies destroyed. Anne Coombs,

SOUTH AFRICA: Social movements march on Earth Summit

BY PATRICK BOND JOHANNESBURG — For 90 years, we've waited to see the combined geographical and political implications of locating an urban bantustan in a small block of land in northeast Johannesburg called Alexandra. August 31 was breakout