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BY SIMON BUTLER
Afghan temporary protection visa holder and refugees' rights activist
Riz Wakil is embarking on a whirlwind speaking tour on university campuses
along the east coast.
Wakil, who is an activist in Free the Refugees
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — August 6 was the 12th anniversary of the imposition of sanctions
on Iraq by the United States. To mark the day and demand that the sanctions
be lifted unconditionally, a 24-hour picket was staged outside the US
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE — Centrelink, the federal government's social payment delivery
agency, is demanding that its staff agree to work seven days a week at
standard pay. Workers would be rostered as required by management, rather
than
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
SYDNEY — In NSW in the 2001 federal election the swing against the
ALP was twice the national average. Federal Labor's posture as pro-worker
and a defender of public services such as schools and hospitals could not
hold
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US President George Bush is preparing for a new war on Iraq using the pretext that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is threatening the world with "weapons of mass
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The suffering of ordinary Palestinians inflicted by the Israeli occupation since September 2000 extends beyond the almost 1700 killed and the more than 20,000 injured by the Israeli army and paramilitary "settlers".
A new report
Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and
Masculinity in Twentieth-Century AmericaBy Stephen H. NorwoodUniversity of North Carolina Press/Chapel Hill, 2002328 pp, $50 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
On 26 May, 1937, United Automobile Workers
BY ALLEN MYERS
PHNOM PENH — A showing of John Pilger's documentary film The New Rulers of the World drew a crowd of more than 200 people on the evening of July 24.
The showing, sponsored by the Foreign Journalists Club of Cambodia, was
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