BY KERRIE BARRON & KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA — "Against abortion? Don't have one!" was the popular slogan of a rally attended by 300 people outside the ACT Legislative Assembly on April 9. The rally was called by Options for Women in support of
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BY SUE BOLTON
The leaders of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) resigned en masse on April 3, in response to heavy criticism of their decision to call off general strike in solidarity with striking power workers on the day it was due
BY MALIK MIAH
SAN FRANCISCO — Under President George Bush's new world of "morality" everything is "black and white". People, groups and states are either "good" or "evil". Countries are with the US or against it. The "evil" terminology permeates
The Socialist Alliance, NSW Greens, Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance, International Socialist Organisation, Socialist Alternative, Refugee Action Collective, Free the Refugees Campaign, Sydney People Against a New Nuclear Reactor, Wilderness
BY SUSAN PRICE
SYDNEY — Senate hearings had confirmed that the recent refugees' rights protest at Woomera, during which fences at the Woomera detention centre were pulled down, would be classified as a "terrorist act", under legislation currently
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US policies create terrorism
Another American Century? The United States and the World After
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Indigenous organisations and leaders in Queensland have cautiously greeted the state ALP government's plan to take control of alcohol-serving canteens away from elected indigenous community councils in Queensland's far
The Queen Mother was a racist snob who excelled in extravagant living. After all the grovelling, hypocritical tributes paid to her last week, here are some facts to remember.
The Queen Mother referred to black people as "nig-nogs" or "blackamoors".
Global justice activists make plans for M1
BY DARREN JIGGINS
HOBART — Global justice activists in the Hobart M1 Alliance have
decided to organise a blockade of the Forestry Tasmania building on May
1, followed at 12 noon by a march to
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — On April 4 US President George Bush called on Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian cities occupied by its forces during the previous week.
He excused Israel's violence, but lectured the Palestinians and the rest of
BY EDWIN WISE & ANTHONY DEFRAINE
"Palestinians are being attacked with rockets and [helicopter] gunships", cried Asem Judeh from the Australian Solidarity Committee for Palestine at an emergency speakout on April 10 at Melbourne's LaTrobe
Unions call for sanctions on Israel
On April 10 Tony Maher, mining and energy general president of the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union, and Paddy Crumlin, the national secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia issued a joint call
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