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HONG KONG: Furore over the finger

Eva Cheng Hong Kong's recently elected pro-worker parliamentarian Leung Kwok-Hung, known as Long Hair, has overcome one threat to his elected position, only to have more descend. After being elected to the Legislative Council (the territory's

Deported to danger

Sarah Stephen Sharif, a Bedoon (stateless person) from Kuwait, spent three years in detention in Australia and had his asylum claim rejected. The Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) argued that he could live

David Rovics bumped for Bush bashing

BY BILL NEVINS David Rovics, the US's most radical folksinger, stepped onstage in Albuquerque on October 2 wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the face of George Bush and the caption "International Terrorist". The audience applauded wildly. Rovics

Is this really an alternative?

"These terrorists are serious, they're deadly and they know nothing except trying to kill. I understand that. That's why I will never stop at anything to hunt down and kill the terrorists." — John Kerry, St. Louis debate, October 8. "[I]t is very

In brief

INDIA — Villages condemn political killings On October 1, a meeting of several hundred elected village representatives in Patna, capital of Bihar state, condemned the increasing number of killings of leading members of the Communist Party of

A woman's place is in the struggle: Marry and multiply, says Family First

Coming out of the October 9 federal elections, it seems that Family First candidate Steven Fielding may have the balance of power in the Senate, after receiving just 42,560 votes, because most parties, including Labor and the Democrats, preferenced

The connections between racism and revolution

REVIEW BY ALISON THORNE Revolutionary Integration: A Marxist Analysis of African American LiberationBy Richard Fraser and Tom BootRed Letter Press, Seattle 2004224 pages, $28.00 (pb)Available in Australia from Feminist Education Association, PO Box

On the box

Message Stick — Sydney Aboriginal artist Brooke Andrew challenges the stereotypical image of Indigenous art. ABC, Friday, October 22, 6pm. Cuban Missile Crisis Declassified — Tells the story of 13 days in 1962 when the world stood on the brink

Arundhati Roy to donate US$50,000 to Aborigines

SYDNEY — In an interview printed in the October 14 Bulletin magazine, Indian writer and anti-globalisation campaigner Arundhati Roy, comparing Australia's Aborigines to India's untouchables, said she wanted to donate her $50,000 Sydney Peace Prize

CDU management under fire

Kathy Newnam, Darwin Postgraduate students at Charles Darwin University have declared their determination to continue to fight university management attempts to relocate 35 postgraduate research students to what they are calling "holding pens".

Loose cannons

Blind faith and ... "I'm not a politician and the decisions aren't mine to make, but I think oftentimes our commander in chief has a much broader view of things than your average Joe who is for or against the war." — US Marine chaplain Josh

An account of forced deportation

This is a man's account of Australasian Correctional Management (ACM) and immigration department (DIMA) staff's attempt to forcibly deport him from Villawood detention centre. I'd been informed by the DIMA for the first time on 11 October 1999 I am