BY LIZ FEKETE
LONDON — The European Union Border Control Program, introduced with scant regard to refugee protection and human rights, is leading to an increasing number of deaths on the borders of Europe — and beyond.
Over the last 18
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In response to a series of beauty contests being held at a local pub, the Newcastle University women's collective has begun organising protests.
The campaign was initiated with a protest against the "Miss University" contest held at the pub in late
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
CANBERRA — On August 2, the ACT Australian Education Union executive decided recommend to the AEU branch council that the ACT Labor governments third offer in the initial installment of the enterprise bargaining agreement
BY DOUG LORIMER
"Susan Schuman's son writes home from Iraq complaining of poor living conditions, skimpy water rations and dozens of daily attacks on US troops that go unreported. The mother of a Massachusetts National Guardsman stationed in Iraq
BY JENNY LONG
SYDNEY — NSW Anti-Discrimination Board (ADB) workers have responded furiously to vicious cuts to be imposed on the ADB by the Premier Bob Carr's Labor government.
The government's plans for massive funding cuts to the ADB became
BY GRAHAM WILLIAMS
MELBOURNE — In yet another hurdle for manufacturing workers to jump in their industrial Campaign 2003, the Victorian Industrial Relations Commission is increasingly refusing to certify agreements.
"The IRC is tightening up on
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
Ashok Manohar, general secretary of the Lal Nishan Party (Leninist) of Maharashtra state, India, died in Pune on July 31 after a massive heart attack. He was only 54.
Manohar started his political journey in the early 1970s as
BY PETER ROBSON
The Wodonga campus of La Trobe University only offers one humanities subject. There are almost twice as many students enrolled in the course as there are places.
The lecture theatre's doors are closed as soon as all the seats are
TARIQ ALI is a long-time political activist, author and socialist. In the 1960s and '70s, he was a leading figure in the British movement against the US war against the people of Vietnam. He is currently an editor of the New Left Review. Ali spoke
BY ANNE SIMPSON
The Bellingen Rural Australians for Refugees (BRAR) group formed in October 2001 following an exhibition of refugee art and a subsequent forum at the Bellingen 2001 Global Carnival.
A week later, 20 concerned locals met to express
BY PAMELA CURR
The Tampa woke Australia and the world to the savage brutality and unprincipled cunning of the Howard Government. Before the Tampa, concern for asylum seekers was found mainly amongst the usual miners canaries — those people in the
BY ROHAN PEARCE
An opinion poll, conducted August 7-8 by YouGov on behalf of the Mail on Sunday, confirmed that support for the ruling British Labour Party is continuing to plummet as the lies spun by Prime Minister Tony Blair's government to
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