By Sarah Stephen
PERTH — Five people are now facing trial for the murder of 14-year-old Aboriginal boy Cleon Jackman after his battered body was found on May 22. Jackman is believed to have been beaten and strangled to death after he was
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By Francois Vercammen
In September, Gerhard Schröder promised that German troops would go outside Germany only with a UN mandate. But the chancellor used the recent Social Democratic Party (SPD) congress to block a left-wing motion opposing a
'The Philippines left needs to appreciate the national question'
ABRINO AYDINAN, a leader of the Cordillera Peoples Liberation Army-Cordillera
Bodong Administration (CPLA-CBA) and an executive council member of the
Socialist Party of
Firefighters fight for a fair deal
By James Vassilopoulos
CANBERRA — On May 24, members of the United Firefighters Union of Australia (UFUA) were in Civic Mall asking shoppers to sign petitions in support of their stand in an enterprise
By Sean Healy
More than 250 young socialist activists are expected to descend on Melbourne for four days in July for the annual Resistance national conference. The theme will be "Rebellion, resistance, revolution: dare to struggle, dare to win",
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Two hundred people attended a SA United Trades and Labor Council (UTLC) public meeting on May 21 to hear Jennie George, ACTU president, speak on the latest round of changes to the federal industrial relations laws
Niddrie residents oppose toxic dump
By Chris Spindler
MELBOURNE — Hot on the heels of the victory against the proposed CSR toxic dump at Werribee, residents at Niddrie in Melbourne's west are opposing a proposed toxic dump in a disused quarry.
Starting with him
"Mr Howard said Australians needed to 'throw out those things that are not working' ..." — Sydney Morning Herald May 24.
Depends what you're negotiating
"You don't lose your principles just because you negotiate with the
Useful ammunition for activists
Dollars for Death: Why the uranium mining and nuclear industry must be stoppedResistance Books, 199964pp., $4.95 Review by Rjurik Davidson
Activists protesting against the Jabiluka uranium mine are under attack
Capitalism puts its own edge on the 'netwar'
The Zapatista Social Netwar in MexicoBy David Ronfeldt, John Arquilla, Graham E. Fuller and Melissa FullerRand Corporation, 1998, $15Also available at
It is ironic that on the day the Business Review Weekly released its Rich 200 list, the Australian Democrats and the Coalition agreed on a GST deal to make those on the list even richer.
Australia's richest tycoons increased their wealth by $9
Sorry Day: no healing without justice
Comment by Margaret Allum
May 26 was the first anniversary of Sorry Day, a day to mark the
plight of the “stolen generations”: For most of this century (until the
early 1970s in some states) the
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