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Miko Peled

Israeli activist and author Miko Peled, currently touring Australia, is convinced that the Israel-Palestine conflict can be solved.

鈥淢ost countries don鈥檛 detain asylum seekers鈥 or, if they are detained, they 鈥渁re only detained until the UNHCR recognises them and then they are released,鈥 Robyn Sampson, researcher with the International Detention Coalition told a public meeting on alternatives to detention of asylum seekers.
Two months after the secession of South Sudan, Khartoum鈥檚 ruling elite is making no retreat from the strategy that eventually forced the country鈥檚 division. This strategy includes marginalisation and neglect of the outlying regions; the forced imposition of Khartoum鈥檚 right-wing Islamic, pro-Arab agenda on Sudan鈥檚 culturally, linguistically and religiously diverse population; and brutal repression of dissent. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) is waging wars on several fronts, from Darfur in the west to the states along the new southern border.
The group 鈥淐onserve West Lake Macquarie Now鈥 is working with local government and lobbying the New South Wales government and a coal company to gazette the woodlands of West Lake Macquarie on the NSW central coast as a State Conservation Area. The area is Crown land, some of it leased by local coal company Centennial Coal. This land will provide the final links for a 鈥済reen corridor鈥 from the Watagan Mountains to the shores of Lake Macquarie.
For the past seven years, the community action group TAP into better Tasmania, formerly Tasmanians Against the Pulp Mill, has campaigned against Gunns Ltd鈥檚 attempts to build a pulp mill in the Tamar Valley. TAP spokesperson Bob McMahon spoke to 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Susan Austin. * * * How many years has the campaign against Gunns鈥 pulp mill been going for?
The South Asian Social Forum will be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from November 18-22. Part of the World Social Forum, SASF takes the democratisation process as its core theme. The World Social Forum, which was formed in 2001, has its roots in the early 1990s and different NGO initiatives and activities parallel to those of the United Nations. Its formation was inspired by the mass upsurge across Latin America, in particular the struggle of the Zapitistas in southern Mexico and the 1999 Seattle protests against the World Trade Organisation.
鈥淭he process of building socialism, as shown in Venezuela, is very complex. It is often a matter of two steps forward, one step back,鈥 said John Cleary, coordinator of the May Day 2011 solidarity brigade to Venezuela, at a forum at the Brisbane Activist Centre on September 17. The Brisbane forum, sponsored by the Australia Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN), heard a report from Cleary about his recent trip to Venezuela, and to Bolivia on the brigade that followed.
If Julia Gillard is deposed as Australia鈥檚 prime minister, she has only herself to blame. Gillard鈥檚 ALP is barely distinguishable from the Coalition, varying only by a nuance here or there. More than any other reason, this explains her bottomless unpopularity. The ALP has continually abandoned its supposed constituency, the working class, in favour of the wealthy, who contribute more and more to the ALP鈥檚 coffers. It鈥檚 true Gillard didn鈥檛 start the rightward shift of the ALP, but she has taken it so far that Abbott can now attack Gillard from the 鈥渓eft鈥.
King Brown (Damion Hunter)

When far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik went on a mass killing spree in Norway on July 22, he was listening on his headphones to "Lux Aeterna", a mournful piece of music by British film soundtrack composer Clint Mansell.

麻豆传媒 Weekly, Socialist Alliance and other left-wing groups, have received more attention than normal in recent weeks in the mainstream media and even in state and federal parliamentary debates. This attention has mainly been in response to the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid and has mostly consisted of nasty allegations of anti-Semitism, with endless colourful references to Hitler and the Nazi鈥檚 Holocaust.
Elections in the city-state of Berlin on September 18 delivered another serious blow to the government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, even as her party鈥檚 vote increased. Merkel鈥檚 centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) came in second place in the Berlin election, winning 23.4% of the vote 鈥 up from 21.3% in 2006.
March in Trinidad, Bolivia against a proposed highway that would go through part of the Amazon, Augu

Statements, articles, letters and petitions have been circulating on the internet for the past month calling for an end to the "destruction of the Amazon".