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Bougainville liberators tour Australia
SYDNEY — Bougainville Women for Peace and Freedom (BWPF) representative Josephine Takunani Sirivi, and former Bougainville Revolutionary Army commander Sam Kauona addressed a gathering and film
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Unions defend Age jobs
MELBOURNE — The sacking of 86 printers and maintenance workers at the Age's Spencer Street plant has been stalled by a combination of industrial pressure and legal defence.
In an industrial relations commission
Lee Yu-kyung& Iggy Kim
A move by conservative opposition parties in the Kukhoe, South Korea's single-chamber parliament, to impeach President Roh Moo-hyun are galvanising a pro-democracy backlash, leading to mass protests against the attempted
Feeling Bolshie
"A [Russian] leader writer has expressed concern that the Soviet Union still exists, that nostalgia for it seems to be the dominant mode. Polls by reputable institutes confirm this: 57% of Russians want the USSR back (2001); 45%
Sarah Stephen
After almost three years of imprisonment, those asylum seekers remaining on the Pacific island of Nauru are trapped in a living hell. They have seen some of their fellow prisoners granted refugee status and taken to New Zealand,
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
The Fate of the RomanovsGreg King and Penny WilsonJohn Wiley & Sons, 2003657 pages, $49.95 (hb)
The telegrams from Ekaterinburg to Moscow were brief and to the point — the former Tsar of Russia (Nicholas II) had been
Gloria La Riva, Miami
On March 10, lawyers for five Cuban citizens who have been in prison in the US since 2001 on frame-up charges of conspiracy to commit espionage presented oral arguments to a three-judge federal appeals court in Miami.
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While Michael Schembri's historical assessment of Cuba's gay history (Write On, GLW #575) is correct and he is right about the 1990s closure of gay venues (one or two bars now serve the gay community, but are not openly
Alison Dellit
Responses to the defeat of a pro-war government in the March 15 Spanish election, and the subsequent threat to pull Spanish troops out of Iraq, have varied between Australia's opposition parties. While the ALP has fudged the issue,
Karen Fredericks, Port Moresby
A violent raid by Port Moresby police on an alleged brothel on March 11 has galvanised women's groups, community and church organisations and aid workers in a new coalition to call for a public and independent
Doug Lorimer
At least 2 million anti-war protesters rallied and marched in cities around the world on March 20 — the first anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq.
From Sydney to Tokyo, from Seoul to New York, from London to Dehli,
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