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Curtin Uni staff, students organise against war

BY GRANT COLEMAN PERTH — Following a successful anti-war forum last month on Curtin University, 18 staff members and students met on November 7 to organise the anti-war campaign on campus. The majority of those at the meeting were concerned

Museworthy: The Subjectivity of Corpses (after Susan Bordo)

Museworthy: The Subjectivity of Corpses (after Susan Bordo) like legal meat and bonethe corpse said I could not have its corneaI could not have its heartI could not have its kidneynor one lung of its pair at an impassethe corpse and Iwere

News Briefs

Public sector workers call 24-hour strike PERTH — One thousand public sector workers protested outside Parliament House on November 8 as part of a "fair and equal pay" campaign. The Community and Public Sector Union/Civil Service Association has

UNITED STATES: Warmongers reap fat profits

BY EVA CHENG United States pro-war "hawks" are fast lining their pockets from the war on Afghanistan — including a company linked to President Bush. With high stakes in extensive war-related investments, the Carlyle Group is one company that

WORLD ECONOMY: Free trade puts workers on the global treadmill

BY SEAN HEALY Ever watched a mouse run around and around on a treadmill? Well, that's the position of workers under the terms of "free trade" agreements — except rather than one mouse per treadmill, it's billions of us, all competing against each

Boondocks won't be silenced

BY SARAH KNOPP "We'd like to take this time to remind all Americans in this time of hardship that 33 News coverage of 'America Strikes Back' is brought to you by Nike, who would like to remind all freedom-loving, brave American soldiers to 'Just Do

Howard's refugee lies exposed, criticism mounts

BY SARAH STEPHEN In the days before the November 10 federal election, the Australian government's punitive policy toward asylum seekers began to backfire on the Coalition government. A wave of former prime ministers, former Labor and Liberal

The anti-war movement and NUS

BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI The US-led war against the people of Afghanistan places a big responsibility on student activists. This new imperialist offensive is likely to be a long one, resulting in massive human and ecological costs. Our task is to build

IRAQ: How the US intentionally destroyed Iraq's water supply

In violation of the terms of the Geneva Convention, the United States government intentionally used sanctions against Iraq to degrade the country's water supply during and after the 1991 Gulf War, Defense Intelligence Agency documents have revealed.

Write on: Letters to the editor

Bullies Since the end of World War II, the USA has been the biggest and toughest kid on the block, bullying mercilessly Iraq (genocide), Cuba (40 years' blockade), El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, little Grenada, Vietnam, Chile (Pinochet's ghastly

PAKISTAN: Birth of a new peace movement

BY AMIR SUHAIL RAWALPINDI — Thousands of peace activists protested in the northern city of Rawalpindi on November 6, demanding an end to the US bombing of Afghanistan and denouncing the terror of religious fundamentalism. The rally was

Mundine victimisation exposes 'free world' freedom

BY PETER ROBSON& TROY SAXBY "I really feel that it's not our problem. They call it an act of terrorism, but if you understand the religion and our life, it's not about terrorism — it's about fighting for God's laws, and America's brought it upon