East Timorese killed in election violence
By James Balowski
Indonesian authorities have confirmed that at least 13 East Timorese were killed in the lead-up to voting in the Indonesian general elections on May 29. Dili police chief, Colonel
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Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's Melanie Sjoberg spoke to People's Democratic Party (PRD) activist Wilson, while waiting in a holding cell at the South Jakarta Court on May 26. The trials of PRD activists arrested since the Suharto government's July 27 crackdown
By Sam Wainwright
PARIS — With the National Front (FN) registering up to 20% in polls and in control of four local councils, its leader Jean-Marie Le Pen recently boasted, "We have become a movement to be reckoned with, not just in France, but
By Geoff Payne
NEWCASTLE — Share brokers have placed advertisements in Newcastle newspapers offering to "help" steelworkers sell their shares in BHP. BHP introduced an employee share scheme in the 1980s to try to get workers to identify more
@letter head = Sustainability solutions
I'm pleased that in Peter Boyle's letter "Socialism and sustainability" (GLW #274), he writes that I'm right. He may be astonished to know that I heartily agree with him, from my own observation, about
By Zanny Begg
BRISBANE — Activists registered a victory at the University of Queensland last week when students voted to affiliate the union to the National Union of Students. Of the 3402 students who voted in the referendum, 73% voted for
Ogoni representative tours
By Matt Wilson and Jonathan Strauss
Nigeria's minority Ogoni people face environmental and social destruction at the hands of the Shell oil company and the country's military dictatorship. This is the message
By Alex Bainbridge
NEWCASTLE — More than 4000 people protested against Pauline Hanson's May 30 public meeting in Newcastle. The atmosphere was electric as anti-racists confidently demonstrated that we were not prepared to accept racism here.
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"Solitude is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness [of our true selves] can we hear the truth of our own unique voices." — Pearl Cleage, in Deals with
TAFE workers rally in Brisbane
By Bill Mason
@box text intro = BRISBANE — More than 800 Technical and Further Education staff rallied in the Roma Street Forum here on May 28 to protest against the Borbidge government's refusal to
The stolen children report provides a chilling history of case after case of children removed from their families, not because they were being neglected, but because they were Aboriginal. Below are excerpts from the report. Millicent
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Aboriginal activist Yaluritja (Clarrie Isaacs) and Reihana Mohideen from Asian Australians Against Further Intimidation, who are speaking on the Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly Justice Tour: Fighting Hanson's Racism, have issued a challenge to Pauline Hanson to
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