SCOTLAND
Socialists ready to shock the establishment
BY FRANCIS CURRANÂ
With less than one year until the Scottish Parliament elections,
due in May 2003, the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) faces its biggest challenge
yet.
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
The European Union faces an ironic contradiction in coming decades. As birth rates continue to decline, many countries face negative population growth. The EU needs more immigration. Yet the European Council's June 21-22 meeting in
CMG workers return to work
BY TERRICA STRUDWICK
ROCKHAMPTON — Meatworkers at the Packer-family-owned Consolidated Meat
Group's Lakes Creek abbatoir returned to work on June 20 after spending
two weeks on strike and another week locked
Afghan refugee pleads: Don't send us back!
NOORIA WAZIFADOST is a 16-year-old Afghan refugee now living in Sydney.
She arrived in Darwin with her family in 2000, and spent 40 days in the
Curtin detention centre before being released on
SOUTH AFRICA: Sacrificing
AIDS victims for corporate profits
BY PATRICK BONDÂ
JOHANNESBURG — During the last few days of June, at the same time
as the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Congress of South African Trade
Unions
BY PIP HINMAN& SARAH STEPHEN
On June 23, the same day that 13,000 people took to the streets across Australia to oppose the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, detainees at the Woomera detention centre began a hunger strike. By June 24, 180-190
Loose Cannons
Find those Binladenburgers!
“Larry Ponemon, the CEO of Privacy Council, says that since September 11
he's been hired by at least one major supermarket chain to oversee the
handing over to law enforcement agencies of the
BY JO WILLIAMS
HAVANA — Critics continue to say that Cuba is undemocratic, closed off, repressive, and that critical ideas in general are suppressed. An investigation of the education system and the young people in Cuban schools paints a very
AFGHANISTAN
Sham assembly installs warlord coalition
BY NORM DIXON
The much-hyped loya jirga — or grand assembly — was supposed
to be post-Taliban Afghanistan's first step towards the creation of a representative
democratic
REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHENÂ
Escape to Paradise
Directed by Nino Jacusso
With Duzgun Ayhan, Fidan Firat, Nurettin Yildiz and Walo Luond
Distributed by First Hand Films
Frontieres (Borders)
Directed by Mostefa Djadjam
With Lou
Earthquake risk at Lucas Heights
BY ALEX MILNE
Work is continuing at the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor, despite
calls for the government to reconsider the project after an earthquake
fault line was discovered there.
The fault was
Abortion still an issue in Tasmania
BY ANTHEA STUTTER
LAUNCESTON — “Despite the emergency sitting of the Tasmanian parliament
last December, ostensibly to pass legislation to solve the abortion access
crisis, women still don't have full
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