BY RAY HAYES
DARWIN — Recent media reports that US war secretary Donald Rumsfeld told his Australian counterpart, Senator Robert Hill, that the Pentagon wants to set up US military bases in north Australia have angered anti-war activists in
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John Pilger's latest documentary, Breaking the Silence, will be broadcast on SBS television on Tuesday, December 9 at 8.30pm. Pilger investigates Washington's "war on terror", which was launched following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US. It was
BY JORGE JORQUERA
Latin America has emerged as the frontline of struggle against neoliberalism. This year alone: two mass uprisings have swept through Bolivia; trade union struggles have intensified in Peru and Chile; political opposition has grown
BY MANDY PEARSON
MELBOURNE — The Victorian Labor government's Blueprint for Government Schools, released on November 13, is notable for what it does not say, more than its recipe to fix the ailing public school system.
It falls far short of
On December 4, defence minister Robert Hill announced that the Australian government will participate in making US President George Bush's trillion-dollar National Missile Defence (NMD) shield — better known as "Son of Star Wars" — a reality.
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN — On December 3, 70 people attended the Refugee Action Network's final event for the year, a public meeting on the politics of temporary protection visas.
The meeting was addressed by lawyer Colin McDonald, Fran
SYDNEY — Two-hundred people protested outside NSW parliament on December 2 as a closed meeting inside discussed legislation which would overrule the decision of the Land and Environment Court to rule against allowing waste management company Collex
MARK LATHAM: "In recent years there has been a backlash against some of the poorest people in our society. The reason for this backlash is simple ... [Australians] object to helping people who are cheating the system."
It's somewhere betweenthe obscene and uncleanbut John Howard is my inspiration.
You work for the dole.You mortgage your soul,and he calls that liberation.
Get off your fat arse,do a job that's first class.Yes, work is your obligation.
A hand-up
BY CHRISTIANO KERRILA
On the evening of December 2, tens of thousands of working-class supporters of Venezuela's radical left president, Hugo Chavez, poured into the streets of the country's capital, Caracas, to celebrate the defeat of the
BY CHRIS ATKINSON
SYDNEY — Despite widespread opposition from council workers and communities, the NSW Labor government is steamrolling ahead with plans to force local councils to amalgamate at the expense of jobs, facilities and community
In May, the Socialist Alliance national conference adopted a perspective proposed by a non-aligned caucus of 160 SA members to move the alliance towards becoming a united, multi-tendency socialist party. Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's KERRYN WILLIAMS spoke to
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