BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY — A campaign has begun to pressure the Indonesian government to release detained British-born Australian academic Lesley McCulloch and US nurse Joy-Lee Sadler. The women's interpreter, Fitra bin Amin, has already been
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BY ALISON DELLIT
"We have allies and Australia is an ally. And I think it's good to always recognise the contributions that allies make and we've had no greater contribution [to the War on Terror] from anywhere in the world than the contribution
The right medicine
Regarding John Percy's article, "DSP discusses major left unity initiative" (GLW #508) on the DSP's national executive's September 2 decision to propose to its membership to liquidate publicly in 2003, and put all available
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said on September 18 that
they are seeking “substantial autonomy and self-government in the Tamil
homeland and expressed optimism that a solution to
Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict could be worked out by
The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War Against
the World's Most Famous ScientistBy Fred JeromeSt. Martin's Press, 2002358 pages, $40 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
When "communism" was the official flavour-of-the-month threat in the US,
BY CHRIS SLEE
Australian Taxation Office (ATO) workers around Australia, members
of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), went on strike for two
hours on the morning of September 18. The strike followed the breakdown
of
BY
MAX LANE
MANILA — More than 450 delegates representing more than 100,000 workers
gathered in Baguio City on September 14-15 to plan out their campaign of
resistance to the neo-liberal globalisation offensive hitting Filipino
workers.
BY TIM STEWART
BRISBANE — When the Cross-Campus Women's Collective heard that the
“male” magazine FHM was putting on a “Miss University” competition
at the Tivoli Theatre in Fortitude Valley on September 17, it called for
a protest of the
Palestine is Still the IssueDocumentary by John PilgerThursday, October 8, 8.30pmSBS
REVIEW BY ROHAN PEARCE
John Pilger's documentary, Palestine is Still the Issue, is a moving and powerful indictment of Israel's illegal occupation of the West
No war on Iraq!
LAUNCESTON — Thirty-five people attended a "No war on Iraq!" public forum at the Royal Oak Hotel on September 15, organised by Launceston Socialist Alliance.
Vicki Walker of the Socialist Alliance and Debbie Butler of the
BY PETER ROBSON
NEWCASTLE — After a week
of determined campaigning by students, academics and staff, the refugee
sanctuary referendum on Newcastle University finished at 3pm on September
20. More than 700 students voted in the week-long
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — At the first such day-long forum in Sydney for years, 50
activists spent September 15 analysing and debating the many facets of
the backlash against feminism that has been gathering momentum in Australia,
and
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