Sol Salbe
After a week of rallies and demonstrations, Israelis opposed to their army's attack on Rafah were still protesting. The week's final protest was a 1000-strong rally at the entrance to the Gaza strip.
The week of action began on the late
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Nick Everett
On May 10, a Kuala Lumpur magistrate found Malaysian Socialist Party (PSM) central committee member V. Selvam not guilty of rioting after being arrested on August 17, 1995. The victory ends a nine-year political battle.
When he was
Johnny, get yourself up to the table, 'Cause you're not stalling for me. You represent the grubby interests, Of Shell, Woodside and BHP.
Get yourself up to the table There's some serious talkin' to do You get your hands off Timor-Leste 'Cause their
Doug Lorimer
On May 18, at least 40 Iraqis, most of them women and children, were massacred in a US military assault on a wedding party in the village of Mogr el Deeb, near the border with Syria. Residents said 31 members of a single family were
Pip Hinman
Jakarta's decision to lift martial law in Aceh, in favour of an "emergency status", won't change the lives of ordinary Acehnese for the better, according to a leader of the Acehnese community in Australia. Nurdin, who was once imprisoned
The Women of LockerbieBy Deborah BrevoortNIDAParade Studio, Kensington, Sydneyuntil June 6
REVIEW BY BRENDAN DOYLE
On December 21, 1988, a bomb exploded on board Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all passengers and crew, and 13
Noreen Navin, Sydney
NSW Teachers Federation president Maree O'Halloran
announced on May 21 that the union's executive would decide at its meeting on May 24 the date for a 48-hour strike of NSW public school teachers.
The strike is being called
No apologies
In reply to Sam King's letter in GLW #580 regarding my description of Amanda Vanstone: Political cartoons in a sense "denigrate" the bodies of all politicians, male and female — look at the gift Howard is to the cartoonists, as was
Jenny Long, Sydney
In the NSW "minibudget" brought down by NSW Labor Treasurer Michael Egan on March 30, it was announced that the NSW Department for Women (DFW) would be abolished and responsibility for its programs would be transferred to the NSW
Sue Bolton, Melbourne
May 21 marked a victory for militant unionism. While many unionists were expecting former Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian branch secretary Craig Johnston to be imprisoned after he had pleaded guilty to
Americans are honorary Iraqis
"Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destabilise their country." — Emperor George Bush II, May 5.
On Bushworld
"You've got to understand that military options are always my
Rupen Savoulian
In a spectacularly defiant act, on May 9, Chechen rebels killed the Russian-sponsored president of Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov, by remote-controlled bomb in a stadium where dignitaries were gathered to commemorate the 59th anniversary
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