BY ALISON DELLIT
Even before "anti-terrorist" legislation, increasing powers to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, has been publicly released, attacks on civil liberties in Australia are increasing.
The legislation, first proposed
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@box text intr = Capitalist governments are no friends of civil liberties and democratic rights at the best of times. Since the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York, they have been seizing the opportunity all around the world to
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BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Two weeks after the Hobart City Council banned the distribution of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly in the Elizabeth Street Mall, the paper continues to be distributed there daily. As of December 9, there had been no arrests or fines
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
"It's not going to be all that easy [under the third-term of the Coalition government] but we're just going to have to fight on. I'm sure the militant unions will be up to it", Craig Johnston, Victorian state secretary of the
BY ADAM BAKER
BRISBANE — The US military machines, the oil companies which are central to the US's war aims in Central Asia and the Israeli government which brutalises the Palestinians all came under sustained fire from activists at an anti-war
BY ROB MILLER
If there was an Academy Awards ceremony for terrorism, Israel would sweep every category — and every acceptance speech would have to thank the government of United States, whose generous support has made Israel the most successful
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Woomera Immigration Detention Centre, in the South Australian desert, has been the site of a series of riots, hunger strikes, suicide attempts and escapes over the last two years. The federal government, with the assistance of
Union backs 'no war' resolution
BRISBANE — The Queensland branch conference of the Community and Public Sector Union on December 1-2 strongly endorsed a resolution calling on the Australian government to immediately withdraw all military
BY JONATHAN GADIR
In a ceremony at the Swedish parliament on December 7, the Right Livelihood Award, generally known as the alternative Nobel Peace Prize, was awarded to Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc, and personally to its tireless
The chairperson of Rio Tinto, Sir Robert Wilson, told an mining industry conference in 1999 that a "pressing concern for the mining and metals industry is the need to overcome its poor public perceptions of our industry's performance in relation to
BY SUSAN PRICE
The unity statement of the International South Group Network included some far-reaching elements:
"The 'race to the bottom' character of economic globalisation ... may have increased the participation of the female labour force in
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