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1. The republic debate: How much should change?

   dinner on April 28 has been hailed as a historic milestone in Australia's political development. ... the Mabo case [on Aboriginal land rights]". Keating indicated to the representatives of big ... Australians", he said sombrely. "Not merely our [international] reputation, but our self-esteem depends on ...

2. London terror brings home Iraq intervention

   genuine, the reason was. Bush and Blair wanted a "war on terror" and they got it. Omitted from ... Iraq and what did we expect? Go on say it." The Scottish MP Alex Salmond tried to say it on BBC ... one so-called anti-war MP spoke out in clear, unequivocal English. The warmongers were allowed to fix ...

3. One evening in Dili &&

   the passing minibuses and taxis and their blaring horns. Children play soccer on the footpath. The ... heat of the day over, pedestrians stroll along the side of the road, the women arm in arm. Suddenly, ... the evening is shattered by a piercing shriek. The crowd on the road and path suddenly thickens. ...

4. Action updates

   by Indonesia, and an East Timor independence dinner of a similar size held on December 3, heard ... talks and that pressure continue on the Australian government to stop trade with Indonesia. Two hundred ... people attended a spirited rally in Rundle Mall on December 10 to protest at the attacks of the Brown ...

5. Life as a communist in the '50s

   1945. It was not an unusual act. There were 16,000 other members of the CPA at the war's end. All ... radical change after decades of Depression and war. With the equally "young and ardent" Ian ... episode in the CPA's Cold War years of hardship, siege and decline. Cecil Sharpley, Victorian CPA ...

6. John Pilger: 'Getting' Assange and the smearing a revolution

   Bush’s “war on terror” has changed all that. Obama has pursued more whistleblowers than any US president. ... dismissed the original arrest warrant, saying there was no case for Assange to answer. Both the women ... involved said they had consented to have sex. On the facts alleged, no crime would have been committed in ...

7. The UN in Bosnia: creating apartheid in Europe

   that the Bosnians have lost the war, and of course, the reason the Bosnians lost the war was that the ... into 10 cantons on an ethnic basis, but would not have destroyed Bosnia as a state. When Serbian ... rejected the Vance-Owen plan, the great powers then moved on to the Owen-Stoltenburg plan. It would have ...

8. Xanana: "We resist to win"

   Timor. On August 18, 1983 former Prime Minister Bob Hawke gave de jure recognition to the Suharto ... a prison cell in Jakarta, XANANA GUSMAO smuggled out a tape recording to JOHN PILGER of his views on East ... Indonesian regime. This interview was first published in the London Guardian on December 2. Despite ...

9. DSP Congress reaffirms commitment to broad left regroupment

   on the back of a mass campaign of opposition to the anti-worker Work Choices laws introduced by the ... build an extra-parliamentary struggle to fight for workers' rights, and against attacks on welfare ... Australian troops from the wars that they are engaged in under the imperialist alliance with the US plus ...

10. Palestine: Butchery in Beit Hanoun

    another war being perpetrated on the Palestinians by Israel, with the active participation of the ... Emma Clancy In the deadliest single attack on Palestinians in four years, the Israel Defense ... Forces (IDF) killed 19 civilians at Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip on November 8. Seven homes ...

11. TURKEY: Who benefits from terrorist bombings?

    which is keeping itself out of the Iraq war in defiance of the pro-US military brass. On November 21, ... disappearance of thousands of Kurdish activists. When the war ended in the late 1990s, the military turned on ... which justifies its undemocratic powers on the grounds of its alleged duty to guarantee ...

12. Daylight train robbers

    divide the spoils of their robbery. Relying on opinions by Indonesian apologists at the ANU (a sort of ... Annex of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade), Gareth Evans believes that Australia is on solid ... the 1933 Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States, there was a clear prohibition of the ...

13. How the Nordic Model criminalises sex workers

    provide an extra level of safety while on the job. The same goes for engaging someone to handle the ... have adopted this model. Of course, this model on its own is not enough and the statistics do not show ... the booking and get into the client’s car on the spot. When all sex work is decriminalised and clients ...

14. Malaysia solution is no solution

    queue. But there is no queue for people fleeing persecution, war and mistreatment. On May 9, the ... signed the United Nations Refugee Convention. The deportations will be automatic. Men, women, children ... in Malaysia, corrupt immigration officials actually sold him. He was forced to work on a fishing ...

15. Friends in the struggle for a better world

    practised over centuries in Vietnam, but had been forgotten during the years of war. With QSA's ... And despite being a non-government organisation (NGO), they don't waste precious aid funding on ... volunteers on a shoestring budget, something most activist and progressive groups could relate to. The ...

16. Nepal: Maoists prepare for new upsurge

    ongoing demonstrations across the country in support of the Maoists, but the right-wing forces held on and ... Katawal was the peace process that ended a decade of civil war between the Maoist-led People's ... activists on how to go forward in its struggle to build a "New Nepal". The UCPN-M has sent more ...

17. Carolus Wimmer tour: a Bolivarian pick-me-up

    burden of domestic labour falls overwhelmingly on women. Many wanted to know what the Venezuelans mean by ... decided that although we do not support wars, we will not be naive and will be prepared to fight for our ... member asked. Wimmer stressed that the government of President Hugo Chavez was intent on reducing the ...

18. TURKEY: Dam to displace 78,000 Kurds

    project. Many critics of the dam say it would destroy the environment in a war-torn region that has ... pipeline. It is located on the Tigris River in south-east Anatolia, 65 kilometres upstream of the Syrian and ... standards, inadequate budget, lack of necessary information on the affected people and a failure to address ...

19. Life of Riley: Parliament: a class act

    merely administering the spoils of war — dividing the booty among the victors. But, correct me if ... brunt of them? Here I am, an ordinary Joe Blow, and my only input to all this is the mark I make on ... a card every three years or so. On the measures taken, I am simply asked to state whether I like them or ...

20. Radio highlights

    one union has decided to take on a group of workers long neglected. Australian sex workers can now ... surviving as a butch in Newcastle in the early '60s; Maori drag queens and cross-dressing women. Sydney ... epic horrors of war and occupation. ABC Classic FM, Monday, February 12, 9pm. Hugo's Turkish ...

21. Campaign to free Filemon Lagman gains support

    By Max Lane MANILA — FILEMON, the Free Lagman Movement, was official launched on June 2 at the ... was captured by agents of Naval Intelligence in Manila on May 26. Lagman is the secretary of the ... which leads worker, urban poor, women's and student organisations with a mass activist base of ...

22. Poland slides deeper into crisis

    admirer of Marshal Pilsudski, Poland's dictator before the second world war. Some former presidential ... workers are on strike seeking a 30% pay rise; the aerospace industry has ground to a halt; and perhaps ... worked as agents for the former Stalinist regime. An attempt by the Parliamentary Women's Lobby to ...

23. US backs Habib’s torturer, but Arab world has changed

    dictatorship of President Hosni Mubarak. Women have been on the frontline in the uprisings in Tunisia and ... democratic values (especially women’s rights) in the Middle East is a US priority. However, far from ... leaders merely called on him to make “reforms” and “listen to grievances”. After protesters rejected ...

24. Caroline Lund (1944-2006)

    articles, especially on issues of women's liberation, were republished as pamphlets, which we ... Caroline Lund, a lifelong fighter for socialism, workers' rights and women's liberation, ... died at her home in Oakland, California, on October 14, aged 62. She will be sorely missed by her ...

25. The Iraqi resistance in their own words

    agree with British MP and anti-war activist George Galloway's assessment in a speech given at the ... al-Assad Library in Damascus on July 30, 2005: "These poor Iraqis — ragged people, with their sandals, ... the names of their leaders. They are the base of this society. They are the young men and young women ...

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