The following opinion piece by Kamal Fadel, the Polisario Representative to Australia, is a response to Morocco proposal for limited autonomy for Western Sahaha, which would include a regional government with some control over local affairs, cabinet ministries and a local judiciary. This piece was first published in .
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Many workers and unions in Australia and other imperialist countries have been involved in campaigns to stop jobs from being sent offshore to Third World countries. Unions in the rich countries usually think that this is an issue that only affects them, but the off-shoring of jobs to other countries, or to “free trade zones”, heavily impacts on workers in Third World countries, as capitalists try to drive workers’ wages and conditions ever lower.
Pope Benedict XVI is travelling to Brazil in May for an important bishops meeting. To prepare the way the Vatican has slapped down Jesuit Father Jon Sobrino, one of Latin America major theologians and a survivor of the 1980s Salvadoran death squad war.
Around 5000 lawyers protesting on March 21 vowed not to rest until they succeed in removing General Pervez Musharraf from office, forcing the withdrawal of the reference against Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and gaining assurance of a full independent judiciary capable of protecting the constitution. They called for the establishment of a truly democratic government through free and fair elections. The dispute was sparked on March 9 when Musharraf suspended Chaudhry.
(in response to Gunns withdrawing its pulp mill from the independent assessment process and Tasmanian premier Paul Lennon planning to approve it anyway)
Today was a victory for democratic forces, not only for the Labour Party Pakistan, but for all the other parties who were able to go onto the streets in support of democratic rights, LPP general secretary Farooq Tariq told 鶹ӳ Weekly Jim McIlroy in Lahore on March 26, following a round of demonstrations.
george bush, the war criminal
says he's only killed
about
30,000 Iraqis, more or less
he's also killed more than 3000
US soldiers
but that's the price you must pay
for oil-ocracy, unleaded liberty, kerosene coalition
benzene
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