BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — At a May 16 "people's inquiry" into the immigration detention centres held at the Inner West Migrant Resource Centre in Footscray, a panel of health workers formerly employed at the Woomera detention centre spoke out
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BY JON LAND
As the official festivities wind down in East Timor following the May 20 independence celebrations and the international dignitaries fly back to their comfortable and privileged lifestyles, a beckoning question for most East Timorese
BY MARCEL CAMERON
BRISBANE — "One hundred years of ALP control of the trade unions is enough" — Community and Public Sector Union delegate Jim McIlroy, who is the Brisbane secretary of the Democratic Socialist Party, told a May 18 seminar.
Another of the US government's post-September 11 lies has been exposed — and from the horse's mouth. According to the April 28 Newsweek magazine, US officials have confirmed that the alleged leader of the September 11 hijackers, Mohamed Atta, could
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2, 2002, Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism Bill 2002, Criminal Code Amendment (Suppression of Terrorist Bombings) Bill 2002, Kurdistan Workers Party, PKK, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, ETA,
BY ROHAN PEARCE
A report released on May 13 by B'Tselem, the Israeli centre for human rights in the Occupied Territories, exposes the continuing illegal appropriation of Palestinian land by the Israeli government and Israeli colonial settlers.
BY KAREN FLETCHER, JO WILLIAMS & JORGE JORQUERA
HAVANA — Former US president Jimmy Carter's historic May 12-17 visit to Cuba has highlighted the differences within the US ruling class over how to defeat Cuba's socialist revolution.
The wing
BY ALISON DELLIT
The Greens and the Democrats oppose the “anti-terrorism” legislation
and will vote against it in the Senate. Attorney-General Daryl Williams
has been under considerable criticism within the Liberal Party for the
botching
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — "Too little, too late" is how Aboriginal employee Gloria Beckett has described the Queensland Labor government's compensation offer to Aborigines who were victims of the "stolen wages" system that operated in the state
BY NICK SOUDAKOFF
The Solidarity of Philippines Workers (BMP) labour organisation was formed in 1993 emerged from the Communist Party of the Philippines-aligned May First Movement (KMU). Today, the BMP is the largest militant labour organisation in
BY JON LAND
During his May visit to the Pentagon, Indonesian defence minister
Matori Abdul Djalil received signals that the United States is keen to
renew military ties with the Indonesian armed forces.
Despite reluctance by Congress to
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