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Pilger attacked for Palestine documentary

BY ROHAN PEARCE John Pilger has come under attack in Britain for his documentary Palestine is Still the Issue, to be screened in Australia on SBS TV at 8.30pm on October 8. A September 20 article in the British Jewish Chronicle

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Building workers march BRISBANE — Around 600 building workers, members of five unions belonging to the Building Trades Group of Unions, marched through city streets to the Queensland Master Builders Association (QMBA) offices to present their

'Pre-emptive' anti-war protest

BY ROHAN PEARCE MELBOURNE — “Even if United Nations Security Council support for this war is granted, the agenda behind the war won't change”, Kim Halpin, a member of Resistance and the La Trobe University education officer, told a

NICARAGUA: 'Every pig has its Saturday'

BY STEPHEN MARKS MANAGUA — “Every pig has its Saturday” is a popular Nicaraguan saying, which refers to slaughter of fattened pigs on Saturdays for the weekend cooking pot. For former right-wing president Arnoldo Aleman, Saturday seems to

McCulloch: Please appeal for justice in Aceh

[This letter was received from Lesley McCulloch via an email from the Acehnese human rights activists working for her release from Indonesian custody. It was written on September 27.] Those of you who know me personally can confirm I am

Play puts Woomera under the spotlight

BY LISA MACDONALD SYDNEY — The immigration detention centre at Woomera in South Australia has been at the centre of the public controversy surrounding the mandatory detention of asylum seekers since it was opened in 1999. The brutal conditions

INDONESIA: Crisis begins to unite workers and peasants

BY MAX LANE JAKARTA — As the Indonesian economy sinks into even deeper crisis, a major social and political crisis has begun to unfold. This crisis began with the September 11 re-election by the Jakarta provincial parliament of retired general

PALESTINE: Israel's illegal occupation

BY JOHN PILGER LONDON — Last October, in the early hours of the morning, a young expectant mother called Fatima Abed-Rabo awoke with intense labour pains. She and her husband Nasser set out in a friend's car for the hospital in Bethlehem, in

GERMANY: Anti-war rhetoric puts SPD-Greens coalition back in office

BY JIM GREENThe German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democratic-Greens coalition government was narrowly re-elected in the September 22 national elections.The Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the conservative Christian Democratic

Kelly to exhibit at National Museum

Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly cartoonist Chris Kelly with his collection of sculptures “The Subterraneans”, modelled on members of the Howard cabinet, and Kelly's stand-alone piece titled “John Howard — Desert Warrior — the Poor Man's Napoleon” (above).

PALESTINE: Between siege and 'reform'

BY AHMAD NIMER RAMALLAH — Israel's siege of Yasser Arafat's presidential compound has brought the Palestinian plight back into world headlines alongside the impending US-led invasion of Iraq. While the mainstream media has largely

Brenner's popularisation of 'Global Turbulence'

BY ROHAN PEARCE John Pilger has come under attack in Britain for his documentary Palestine is Still the Issue, to be screened in Australia on SBS TV at 8.30pm on October 8. A September 20 article in the British Jewish Chronicle