Dozens of refugee rights supporters are travelling around Australia in a brightly painted 51-seater bus, visiting refugee detention centres and speaking at public events in numerous towns.
The tour aims to show solidarity with detainees through
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There is a saying that if prostitution is the rental of the body, then marriage is the sale. There is no better way to describe the campaign initiated late last year by the National Farmers Federation and a yet-to-be-named national women's magazine
BY MICHELLE BREAR
SYDNEY — The suicide of Lee Hanh in Villawood detention centre on January 8 brings to seven the number of deaths in Australian detention centres in the past three years. Four of those occured at Villawood.
Hanh was taken to
The ArgumentFugaziAvailable at <http://www.dischord.com/bands/fugazi.shtml>
REVIEW BY ALLY BLACK
Fugazi are pioneers of the US punk scene. Their origins lie in the political and "straight-edge" scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s,
BY EVA CHENG
In a televised speech on January 12, Pakistani military ruler General Pervez Musharraf banned two Islamist groups active in Kashmir — Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed. The bans have helped ease military tensions between India and
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REVIEW BY BILL NEVINS
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — Peruvian Christian Orellana's well-amped peace pipe cuts through the rattle and gibber of a crowded south-western
BY NORM DIXON
Under the cloak of the "war on terrorism", the United States is rapidly moving to establish a permanent military presence across the strategic Central Asian region which, until the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, was off-limits to
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"It says much about a country when a decision that will be financially detrimental to its 36 million people is a sign of progress." — Luke Collins, New York columnist for the Australian Financial Review, commenting on the Argentine
Mbeki and AIDS
In my article in GLW #475 I wrote that some of the pseudo- scientists that South African President Thabo Mbeki has used to defend his AIDS denialism are members of the Klu Klux Klan. Brian Souter (Write On, GLW #476) writes that
BY MAX LANE
There has been almost total support in Aceh for the three-day general strike called by the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) for January 16-18 to protest against the decision of the Indonesian government to re-establish an Aceh Military
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — On January 10, the NSW Socialist Alliance submitted an application for registration as a party with the State Electoral Office which, if successful, will enable the alliance's name to be printed on ballot papers in the
BY LUISA ARA
The intense mobilisations in Argentina in December have placed Latin America in the spotlight. Despite rigorous application of neo-liberal economic policies and tax adjustments demanded by the International Monetary Fund, no Latin
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