On February 19, 500,000 people flooded Rome calling for an end to the war and occupation, and for the freeing of kidnapped Il Manifesto journalist and feminist activist Giuliana Sgrena. During Sgrena's one-month imprisonment, Italian television
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On February 25, two young men died after their car crashed into a tree during a high-speed police chase in Macquarie Fields in Sydney. Several days of rioting by angered youth in the area and a series of police raids followed. More than 60 people
In an email home on September 29, Brayden described how the US multinational Halliburton took over the lucrative laundry facilities at the Baghdad airport.
Stationed here at BIAP (Baghdad International Airport) for the past year, we saw the local
Sydney University student and Socialist Alliance activist Bronwyn Powell was among those on the Freedom Ride bus that left Sydney on February 12 to follow the route of the original 1965 Freedom Ride for Aboriginal rights. This is her diary of some of
On March 1, federal Judge Henry Floyd ordered the federal government to release Jose Padilla within 45 days, or to charge him with a criminal offence. Padilla, a US citizen, was arrested in May 2002, when he arrived back to the US at Chicago airport.
"We have stated clearly and on many occasions ... that we do not recognise abortion as a method of family planning, nor do we support abortion in our reproductive health assistance", Ellen Sauerbrey told a UN-sponsored global women's conference on
Alex Miller
Thousands of anti-capitalist and anti-war activists are expected to protest against the G8 summit that is to be held in Gleneagles from July 6-8.
The summit will bring together the leaders of the world's wealthiest countries,
James Balowski, Jakarta
Swimming against a tide of opposition, on March 1 the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced that it will raise fuel prices by an average of 29%.
Fuel subsidy cuts have been mooted since the Yudhoyono
Carlos Ortega, formerly a leader of the pro-boss "trade union" CTV, was arrested in Caracas on February 28. Ortega, who was carrying false identity documents, was one of the key leaders of the 2002 shutdown of the oil industry, orchestrated by the
On March 2, the BBC screened a documentary showing footage of asylum seekers being assaulted, sexually humiliated and racially abused at Oakington detention centre, run by Global Solutions, a Group 4 company. In November, the prison passed an
On March 4, the US State Department confirmed that it had denied a visa to Dora Maria Tellez, one of the leaders of the 1979 revolution in Nicaragua, and the first health minister in the post-1979 Sandinista government, because of her involvement in
CANBERRA — The daily struggles of life in the Occupied Palestinian Territories were the focus of International Women's Peace Service volunteer Kim Bullimore's address to a Socialist Alliance forum held on March 3.
Also addressing the forum was
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