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SOUTH AFRICA: ANC to 'criminalise' landless movement

BY NORM DIXON On the eve of the August 27-September 7 United Nations World Conference Against Racism in Durban, the South African government has announced plans to penalise "instigators" of so-called "land invasions". On August 13, housing

SOUTH AFRICA: 'Landlessness = Racism' campaign launched

BY NORM DIXON The South African Landless People's Movement (LPM) on August 16 launched a "Landlessness = Racism" campaign to highlight the issue of land hunger during United Nations World Conference Against Racism, and the preceding Non-Government

AMWU to protest outside CBF

BY JULIAN COPPENS MELBOURNE — The Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union decided at its August 22 state council meeting to demonstrate outside Prime Minister John Howard's October 3 "Inaugural Ceremony and Dinner Address"

Union to join independent breaching inquiry

BY JIM MCILROY BRISBANE — The Community and Public Sector Union has announced it will join an independent inquiry, launched by a range of community organisations, into the federal government's "breaching" policy, which has led to Centrelink

Candidate plans hunger strike

BY ARUN PRADHAN MELBOURNE — Jorge Jorquera, the Socialist Alliance's candidate for the western suburbs seat of Gellibrand, has said he will go on a three-day hunger strike outside the Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre to protest the

Resistance in action

subh = New Resistance branch launched @box text intr = MELBOURNE — Resistance's new Melbourne north-east branch was launched in Northcote's Caf‚ 303 on August 18. Seventy people celebrated the new branch, listening to music from Jupiter Sound,

Networker: FBI recruitment

FBI recruitment Max Vision lived in the shadowy world of cyberspace, that collection of networks and computers where fantasy becomes real and reality is whatever you want it to be. Cyberspace is an abstraction, a way to speak about activity on

'A different world is possible'

BY ANGELA LUVERA "Around the world young people are radicalising through the new anti-corporate globalisation movement. In some cases this has meant putting their lives directly on the line such as in Indonesia, PNG and at the recent mass protests

WESTERN SAHARA: A Saharawi woman's plea

BY STEPHANIE BRENNAN SMARA REFUGEE CAMP, Algeria — As our battered four-wheel drive makes its way through the desert into the outskirts of the Wilaya, dozens of small dusty children run out to meet us looking for sweets — caramello, caramello?

Labor to guard the coasts

BY SARAH STEPHEN Opposition spokesperson Con Sciacca has stated that the latest influx of asylum seekers showed the government's approach was not acting as a deterrent. "For all their bravado and chest-beating, Prime Minister John Howard and

Write on: Letters to the editor

Abortion access In my article "How and why abortion access is limited" (GLW #460), the prospect of Tasmanian health minister Judy Jackson investigating the possibility of public funding for a new abortion clinic was hailed as "a significant victory

UQ students hit back with CHOGM posters

BY SIMON BUTLER BRISBANE — By the afternoon of August 22 the University of Queensland was covered with posters against the October 6 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. The mass paste-up was part of a coordinated action in opposition to the