BY MATT NICHTER
CHICAGO — With layoffs mounting, the unfolding economic recession is threatening the livelihoods of millions of working people.
Those saddled with debt — mortgages, car payments, college loans or big credit card balances —
477
BY ALISON DELLIT
In a month or so, federal cabinet will introduce laws into parliament which will criminalise political dissent and provide Australia's secret police services with more powers to harass protesters.
Cabinet is proposing to allow
BY SARAH STEPHEN
More than 200 Afghan asylum seekers held at the Woomera detention centre began a hunger strike, possibly as early as January 14. Reported by the mainstream press for the first time on January 19, as many as 70 of the hunger
Individual
Sleep deprivation, often seated in painful positions.
Painful handcuffing.
Beating, including targeting of genitals.
Prolonged incommunicado detention (described by the UN special rapporteur on torture as "itself a practice
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
SYDNEY — Before being forced to leave Australia, a group of six Korean building workers have won back-pay totalling nearly $100,000 owed to them by a sub-contractor installing paving for Burwood Council in Sydney's
BY ALLEN JENNINGS
Sixty people rallied at the Melbourne GPO on January 18 in solidarity with protests in Argentina against cuts to public spending and corporate globalisation.
Protesters and city workers passing-by heard speakers from the
BY NORM DIXON The International Socialist Organisation of Zimbabwe has strongly condemned moves by President Robert Mugabe's government to introduce "draconian semi-fascist laws" and the violent campaign launched by the ruling Zimbabwe African
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Australian government is planning legislation that will make it illegal for civilian ships to pick up refugees at sea without permission. Such a law would have prevented Arne Rinnan, captain of the MV Tampa, from rescuing
Dozens of refugee rights supporters are travelling around Australia in a brightly painted 51-seater bus, visiting refugee detention centres and speaking at public events in numerous towns.
The tour aims to show solidarity with detainees through
There is a saying that if prostitution is the rental of the body, then marriage is the sale. There is no better way to describe the campaign initiated late last year by the National Farmers Federation and a yet-to-be-named national women's magazine
BY MICHELLE BREAR
SYDNEY — The suicide of Lee Hanh in Villawood detention centre on January 8 brings to seven the number of deaths in Australian detention centres in the past three years. Four of those occured at Villawood.
Hanh was taken to
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REVIEW BY ALLY BLACK
Fugazi are pioneers of the US punk scene. Their origins lie in the political and "straight-edge" scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s,
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