BY MAX LANE
The chairperson of SMUR (Students in Solidarity with the People), Mahmudal,
was arrested in Banda Aceh on February 19 during a demonstration organised
by ORPAD (Acehnese Women's Democratic Organisation).
SMUR is an
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BY NORM DIXON
The SBS Dateline current affairs program on February 13 broadcast
a special report — “Killing Mugabe: The Tsvangirai Conspiracy” — and a
follow-up report on February 20, by Walkley Award-winning Australian journalist
Mark
BY EVA CHENG
Capitalism's nagging overcapacity problem refuses to go away. Having long plagued many key industries, the problem found new and sharp expressions in the global steel industry in the wake of the 1997-98 economic crises in Asia, Russia
BY MARGARET GLEESON
SYDNEY — Thirty ALP members and trade unionists attended Labor for Refugees general meeting on February 17.
Federal MP for Sydney Tanya Plibersek told the meeting that the February 12 protest rally outside Parliament House
BARBARA CANTERO, a representative of the Cuban Communist Youth (UJC), recently visited Australia to explain the activities of he organisation, learn more about the political situation in the Asian region and request increased solidarity for the Cuban
ALP
The federal Australian Labor Party is not doing a very good job of resurrecting itself to be a political alternative.
First, it was unable to produce a majority to support a principled stand on refugees. Now it is allowing itself to be
BY SARAH STEPHEN
In order to defend the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, both Labor and Coalition governments have had to convince the Australian people that it is both necessary and justifiable to treat those who arrive in Australia without
BY SARAH PEART
GLASGOW — At 5am on February 11 a convoy of mini buses, cars and vans carrying 500 anti-nuclear activists from across Europe made their way to the home of Britain's Trident nuclear missile submarine base at Faslane on the Clyde
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
FREMANTLE — "I only wish the politicians could show refugees the same kindness, compassion and humility that my ancestors showed your ancestors hundreds of years ago" — with these passionate words, Nyoongar activist Kim
BY ROHAN PEARCE
Israeli society is becoming increasingly polarised. On one side there are those who have lost, or are losing, faith in a military strategy to crush the current intifada, and who are beginning to understand that without justice for
Since forming in 1994, after what they call "a brief interlude on public transport", Regurgitator has cut four full-length albums and flirted with every music style except polka and yodelling. The band rates as a highlight of its career "a 5am
Shallow HalWith Jason Alexander, Jack Black, Gwyneth PaltrowAt major cinemas
REVIEW BY DALE MILLS
So much bilge pours out of Hollywood that it is surprising to find something half-decent at all. This film is one of the half-decent ones. Don't be
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