The following statement was issued by national co-convenors of the Socialist Alliance on January 6.
There is an obvious, simple and humane solution to the tragedy unfolding on Nauru — grant Australian citizenship to the 248 refugees who have been
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Max Lane, Perth
All of those who were involved in working for East Timorese independence are terribly saddened by the sudden death of Dr Andrew McNaughtan.
All the activists in Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor, and later Action
Barry Sheppard, San Francisco
The Democratic Party nationally got a big scare when Green Party candidate Matt Gonzalez came close to winning the race for mayor of San Francisco on December 9.
Gonzalez received 47% of the vote, while his
Doug Lorimer
Immediately following the December 13 announcement that US troops had captured former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the corporate media in the US, Britain and Australia was full of claims that the resistance movement had been
Pauline Rigby
John Howard is doubly right. Earlier this year when Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction" were being touted as a reason to go to war, he said, we should be prepared to act when "we know that a country has weapons of mass destruction
Boris Kagarlitsky, Moscow
With more than 36% of votes the pro-Kremlin United Russia party looks like the only real winner in Russia's parliamentary elections, held on December 7. It also succeeded in getting a massive victory in single-member
Simon Butler, Newcastle & Amy McDonnell, Adelaide
In response to the desperate, month-long protests of the refugees imprisoned on the pacific island nation of Nauru, protesters marched, picketed and spoke out in three Australian cities in early
Igor O'Neill, Jakarta
On January 7, riot police opened fire on local residents protesting against the environmental and social impacts of Melbourne-based mining company Newcrest's Toguraci goldmining operation on the Indonesian island of Halmahera.
Will you please observe through the wire I am sewing my feet together They have walked about as far As they ever need to go
Will you further observe Through the wire I am sewing my heart together It is now so full of The ashes of my days It
Sarah Stephen
Asylum seekers held in the Australian-funded
detention centre on the Pacific island state of Nauru
suspended their hunger strike on January 8, due in part to
news of the Nauru government's request for an independent
Australian
Jason MacLeod
On December 3, Indonesian security forces detained four West Papuan students for their part, two days earlier, in releasing West Papuan flags — known as the Morning Star — attached to balloons in the central Java town of
Operation Iraqi Freedom
"As the guerrilla war against Iraqi insurgents intensifies, American soldiers have begun wrapping entire villages in barbed wire. In Abu Hishma, encased in a razor-wire fence after repeated attacks on American troops,
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