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A former US guard at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib jail, Sergeant Sindar, has remarked, "It is a common thing to abuse prisoners. I saw beatings all the time". A Red Cross spokesperson has referred to a "pattern" and "broad system" of prisoner
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Despite its decision to lift martial law in Aceh, Jakarta refuses to withdraw any of its 40,000 troops from the province, to lift the ban on protests or to allow international observers in. A protest in Sydney will coincide with the two-year
In GLW# 580, Rohan Pearce, a member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective and the Socialist Alliance, reported on the conflict in Fallujah and commended the Iraqi resistance there. In the following article, Toma Hamid & Jalal Mohammad, members of
Since its inception, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly has featured cartoons from one of Australia's premier left cartoonists, Chris Kelly.
Kelly has not set his vast body of work up on the web for all to see. Included are the weekly editorial cartoons Kelly has
Lou Plummer is a member of Military Families Speak Out and the Bring Them Home Now Campaign. He offers a war veterans take on the debate around the US military's torture of Iraqi prisoners.
One Friday when I was in my early 20s, I took off my
Sam Watson
The abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission is the final straw in the ongoing campaign of terror and intimidation that PM John Howard's regime has perpetrated against the Indigenous nations of this land.
Growth FetishBy Clive HamiltonAllen & Unwin, 2003280pages, $24.95
Review by John Tognolini
"Clive Hamilton's garbage is just silly, dangerous, left-wing crap" — NSW treasurer Michael Egan.
After reading Clive Hamilton's Growth Fetish, I
James Bowden, Darwin & Iggy Kim, Sydney
A public meeting of 40 people on May 6 had spirited discussion and debate on the Australian government's theft of East Timor's oil and gas resources in the Timor Sea. The meeting, which was co-sponsored by
Ruth Ratcliffe & Owen Richards, Sydney
Around 200 activists rallied outside NSW parliament on May 13 to protest the state Labor government's inaction on the ADI site. Speakers called on Premier Bob Carr to declare the site a conservation zone,
Sue Bolton, Melbourne
On May 10, at least 8000 trade unionists defied the employers, the federal and Victorian governments, the ACTU and the national officials of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union by rallying outside Melbourne's county
91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's Ra£l Cienfuegos interviewed Ra£l Reyes, a member of the leadership of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
The United States and the European Union label the FARC a terrorist organisation, and in Colombia the
The following are excerpts from greetings given to the Socialist Alliance third national conference, May 8-9.
Craig Johnston, former Victorian secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union.
The ALP isn't much different to the Liberals.
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