BY TERESA FOARD
LONDON — Around 20,000 people mobilised on March 2 in Hyde Park to march to Trafalgar Square for a rally called by the Stop the War Coalition — a broad movement of the left and trade unions.
The anti-war protest had three
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Museworthy: Silence and its Answer
The uprooting of words
took place here
in the country with no tongue
The most silent of plants
grows here
It is an animal
that turns its belly
to the blade
and faces with the heart's generic
Sweden
Annual refugee resettlement quota of 1800.
In 1999 34% of 11,231 asylum claims were approved for refugee status.
No skilled migration or family reunion program.
Asylum seekers spend at least two weeks in Carlslund Refugee Reception
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — The 1500 local residents who rallied in Mona Park, Auburn, on February 23 sent a clear message to the NSW Labor government: no new waste dump in Sydney's western suburbs!
The rally was called to oppose the building of
Afghan, Iraqi events
SYDNEY — Around 60 people gathered in Parramatta Town Hall on March 8 for a "Women's rights are human rights" dinner organised by the worker-communist parties of Iraq and Iran. The next night, around 200 members of the Afghan
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — The Socialist Alliance is half-way to the arduous task of Tasmanian electoral registration. In a blatant deterrent to political involvement, Tasmanian electoral law requires 100 members to be prepared to have their
With the Philippines now the "second front" in the US "war on terrorism", Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's ALLEN JENNINGS interviewed Rasti Delizo, head of the general secretariat of the Philippines Campaign for Peace with Justice.
Can you give us some
BY SARAH STEPHEN
"We were taken on a bus to Midway Hostel, in Maribyrnong [in Melbourne's west], and for Vietnamese like us, who had suffered so much from the ravages of war and change, the welcome and care shown by the hostel staff moved us so
BY KATE WILSON
More than 650 young people have joined the socialist youth group Resistance since January, 465 of them students who joined from stalls at campus orientation weeks.
Resistance's national coordinator, Simon Butler, told Â鶹´«Ã½
BY ROHAN PEARCE
According to the Israeli interior ministry, the demand for gun permits rose 75% over the last year.
In 2001, 7790 people applied for permits — almost twice the number of applications in 2000. In January of this year alone, 879
Forum discusses power station
GEELONG — On March 4, the Socialist Alliance hosted a discussion around the topic "Our energy, our future, is there space for community democracy?".
This "politics in the pub" continued nine months of campaigning
BY BARRY HEALY
PERTH — Dr Jeffrey Claflin, director of Waste Control, the toxic waste treatment plant that exploded in February last year in what has been called Australia's worst toxic fire, has been charged with breaches of the company's
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