Sarah Stephen
A year ago, few people had heard of Peter Qasim. Now he's rapidly becoming a household name, a symbol of the Australian government's harsh and punitive policy of mandatory and indefinite detention of asylum seekers. In the first week
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Pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru was elected president of Tahiti on March 3, with the support of 29 of the 57 members of the semi-autonomous parliament that governs France's "overseas territory". Until last year, Tahiti had been governed for 20
Five anti-war activists were arrested on March 2, after they forced their way into the Irish embassy to protest the use of Ireland's Shannon Airport to refuel US war planes on their way to Iraq. The activists were members of the Irish group Pit-Stop
On February 5, the English Socialist Alliance was wound up as a national organisation at a conference called for that purpose. The alliance, which drew to its banner all the main English far-left organisations, had been a viable left unity project
Stuart Munckton
Speaking on his television program, Hello President on February 27, Venezuela's popular pro-poor president, Hugo Chavez, explained: "I am convinced, at this stage of my life — I am now 50 years old — after six years as a
On February 25, two young men died after their car crashed into a tree during a high-speed police chase in Macquarie Fields in Sydney. Several days of rioting by angered youth in the area and a series of police raids followed. More than 60 people
Sydney University student and Socialist Alliance activist Bronwyn Powell was among those on the Freedom Ride bus that left Sydney on February 12 to follow the route of the original 1965 Freedom Ride for Aboriginal rights. This is her diary of some of
Brayden joined the US army not thinking he'd ever be sent to war. He certainly hadn't entertained the idea that he would turn against a war.
He served as a commissioned officer, rising to the rank of captain, from June 2000 to November 2004.
On March 1, federal Judge Henry Floyd ordered the federal government to release Jose Padilla within 45 days, or to charge him with a criminal offence. Padilla, a US citizen, was arrested in May 2002, when he arrived back to the US at Chicago airport.
The following is abridged from a statement issued by the Indigenous Social Justice Association, calling on NSW Labor Premier Bob Carr to re-open the inquest into the February 2004 death of young Aboriginal man Thomas "TJ" Hickey following a police
A February study carried out by researchers from Glamorgan and Cardiff universities has concluded that a third of child asylum seekers in Wales experience racial abuse. Released by charity Save the Children on February 24, the researchers' report
James Balowski, Jakarta
Swimming against a tide of opposition, on March 1 the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced that it will raise fuel prices by an average of 29%.
Fuel subsidy cuts have been mooted since the Yudhoyono
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