By Margaret Allum
In February, a French court sentenced a Malian woman to eight years'
imprisonment for the “mutilation of minors” — the circumcision of 48 girls.
Although most had been circumcised more than 10 years ago, the defendant
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By Zanny Begg
On March 31, thousands of students took to the streets in rallies across Australia against the voluntary student unionism (VSU) legislation. The rallies were a vibrant rebuttal of the Liberals' claim of majority support for VSU.
Profiting from rape
According to Rekha Pande, the women's studies course vice-president at Hyderabad in India, the country's Prime Minister had a special ugadi (new year) gift for women on March 19. In collaboration with insurance companies, the
By Iain Clacher
The true story of Di and Frances illustrates the hidden horror couples can face when politicians lock them out of the law simply because they are gay. Di and Frances were partners. They lived, paid bills and slept together for more
Is the Communist Manifesto still relevant?
The Communist ManifestoBy Karl Marx and Friedrich EngelsWith a commentary by Leon TrotskyResistance Books, 199880pp., $6.95 (pb) Review by Chris Slee
Generations of socialists have read the Moscow
By Marina Carman
SYDNEY — Last year a proposal was raised in a number of left student groups that only women members should vote in candidate preselections for women's officers. This position was adopted by the Activist Left group on Sydney
Anti-nuclear forum
By Keara Courtney
SYDNEY — Dr Helen Caldicott and Dr Jim Green condemned the federal
government's pro-nuclear push — which includes giving the go ahead to
a new nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights in Sydney's
Love them bombs!
War's a terrible thing, terrible. — 'tis.
It's no way to conduct business.
— No way.
I mean, look at this thing what's happenin' at the moment.
— Terrible it is.
You turn on the telly and they tell ya the bombs are
By Paul Oboohov
On February 26 the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) granted an award to Employment National Administration (ENA) that extinguishes almost all hope of its 912 former Commonwealth Employment Service (CES) workers ever
NATO
hands off Serbia! Serbia out of Kosova!
The Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance condemn the United
States-led NATO military aggression against Serbia, as well as the political
support given to this aggression by John Howard's
Palm Sunday marches oppose Jabiluka mine
Anti-uranium protesters used marches held around Australia on March 28 (Palm Sunday) to focus attention on stopping the Jabiluka uranium mine in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory. The
Cuba denounces US 'human rights' hypocrisy
At the session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva on March 24, Cuba's vice-president, Dr Carlos Lage Davila, replied to charges by the US government that in Cuba there has been a
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