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Write on: Letters to the editor

Socialist Alliance and 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly As a non-aligned member (NAM) of the Socialist Alliance, I look forward to when the Socialist Alliance (SA) becomes a multi-tendency party and has a paper which has the quality of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly. While

AFGHANISTAN: World's largest source of heroin

BY DOUG LORIMER A survey by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime has found that Afghanistan has supplanted Burma as the world's largest source of illegal heroin. There are now 741 square kilometres of land being used to cultivate opium poppies in

Loose cannons

GI means General Indignation "At first glance they appear to be the archetypal Band Of Brothers of Hollywood myth, brave and honest men united in common purpose. But a closer look at these American GIs, sweltering in the heat of an unwelcoming

What the new ASIO law allows

ASIO will be able to arrange for the Australian Federal Police to arrest and hold you for questioning for up to seven days. If this isn't long enough, another detention warrant can be issued. You don't have to have committed, be committing or be

News Briefs

Protest against new secret police powers ADELAIDE — A "journalist", a "minor" and a "neighbour" symbolically detained in a cage on the steps of Parliament House on June 25 were among 70 people protesting the new anti-terrorism law, under which

8 Mile: It's all about class

8 Mile DVDDirected by Curtis HansonWritten by Scott SilverStarring Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy, Mekhi Phifer, Eugene Byrd BY BENJAMEN STANDING "All this terror, America demands actionNext thing you know, you've got Uncle Sam's ass

On the box

Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. Includes the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ news. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Phone (02) 9564 1277. Visit

Anger over ADI sellout

BY GAIL LORD SYDNEY — The ADI Residents Action Group (RAG) was disappointed, but not surprised, by the June 16 NSW government approval of the development of the old defence site at St Marys. Nearly 2000 homes will be built on 130 hectares of

Afghans refugees fight to stay

BY MAREE KENNY In late 2001, hundreds of B-52 fighter planes roared through the skies above Afghanistan. While these US-led coalition forces bombed the Taliban and hunted Osama bin Laden, around 2000 Afghan asylum seekers in Australia waited for

ASIO law: a serious threat to civil liberties

BY DALE MILLS On June 26, federal parliament passed the controversial Australian Security Intelligence Organisation legislation. The powers given to ASIO and the Australian Federal Police are the most serious threat to civil liberties in our

No troops to Solomon Islands!

On June 25, Prime Minister John Howard announced that the cabinet's National Security Committee had decided to send 1200 troops — 200 of them combat soldiers — and 300 Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers to the Solomon Islands for at

Out of our little boxes

BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS MELBOURNE — "It's crucial that we start to get out of our little boxes", said John Cummins, Victorian president of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), addressing the Victorian Socialist Alliance state