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BY JOHN PERCY Some supporters of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly have established a national archive of Australian and international political posters. This collection now numbers several thousand, spanning nearly four decades. Steve O'Brien from Newcastle is
BY SARAH STEPHEN There are 437 asylum seekers imprisoned in camps funded by the Australian government on Nauru, 169 of them children. Forty-nine people have been granted refugee status, yet are still waiting to be accepted for resettlement by a
BY DICK NICHOLS MADRID — In the run-up to the May 25 local and regional government elections, all sides of politics were wondering what effect would the vast movement against the war on Iraq have on the result. Surely, the slavishly pro-US
BY DOUG LORIMER During his trip to Europe earlier this month, US President George Bush claimed that US occupation forces in Iraq had "found the weapons of mass destruction". The claim was based on the discovery of two trailers bearing laboratory
BY KERRY VERNON BRISBANE — On June 12, 800 Queensland Public Sector Union members participated in a march to state parliament to protest deteriorating job conditions and job cuts. QPSU members have also imposed work bans in response to the
BY SARAH STEPHEN During the month of April, 85 of the 264 Iranian asylum seekers held in Australia's detention centres — those who have exhausted all avenues for appeal — were given a letter explaining that the memorandum of understanding (MOU)
BY MAIRE LEADBEATER AUCKLAND — Amnesty International activists co-ordinated three successful vigils in solidarity with the people of Aceh on June 6. The vigils, in the morning, at noon and during evening rush hour, took place in Auckland's
BY KERRIE BARRON & JAMES CAULFIELD CANBERRA — A group of activists gathered outside the Royal Thailand Embassy in Yarralumla on June 12 in response to the Thai government's "war on drugs". The "war" began around three months ago, and has
In justifying the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, the warmongers claimed "liberation" of the women of that country to be a motivating factor. In justifying their campaign to put in place a pro-US puppet regime in Iran, the imperial warmongers are
Excuses for Cuba I am a regular reader of Â鶹´«Ã½, primarily because I support the causes you support, and secondly because I find it an antidote to the mush we get from the so-called mainstream media. However, I must take issue in the
BY MAREE KENNY "We get this guy out of bed early in the morning...he clings on to the bedstead. My job is to unwind his fingers. Struggling, Shouting. He won't go." These words, spoken by an officer employed at Sydney's Villawood detention centre
BY DALE MILLS There have been more sensational revelations about British state-sponsored terrorism in Northern Ireland following the publication on April 17 of an official report — by Metropolitan Police chief Sir John Stevens — that found that