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The black-red alliance lives on

Forty people attended a launch of the latest publication from Resistance Books, The Aboriginal Struggle and the Left on February 20.

People power saves national archives offices

Staff at the National Archives of Australia (NAA) offices in Adelaide, Darwin and Hobart believe that the February 23 announcement not to close down these offices was a victory for people power.

Habib's federal court victory

Mamdouh Habib is joyous. The Australian citizen whose life was taken away from him by torture, harassment and abuse both here and overseas since being captured by US forces in 2001, has received acknowledgment his case can proceed.

Israeli murderers use Australian passports

Israeli murders of Palestinian resistance leaders are not normally condemned by Australian government ministers. Not even the 2002 murder of Salah Shehade in Gaza, in which the murder weapon was a one-tonne bomb from an F-16 jet, and 14 other people, nine of them children, were killed.

Victoria: green jobs campaign launched

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Big parties won't dance to climate tune

Campaigning group Climate Action Hobart (CAH) held a 鈥楧ancing with the 鈥渃limate鈥 stars鈥 competition on February 26 to drawn attention to the climate policies of Tasmania鈥檚 big political parties.

We are refugees

No 鈥 politeness, happiness, humanity Have 鈥 pain, sorrow, suffering Nobody is here 鈥 to love us Nobody is here 鈥 to be honesty We are suffering without love We were expecting politeness We were looking for humanity. But We couldn't

Film gets inside Venezuela's revolution

British-Chilean journalist and documentary director Pablo Navarrete presented his new film Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts on February 25.

Redfern's radical priest

Ted Kennedy, Priest of Redfern By Edmund Campion, David Lovell Publishing, 2009 201 pages, $24.95

Media silent on Colombian atrocities

Apparently, the corporate media doesn鈥檛 consider this to be newsworthy: the confession to a Colombian prosecutor of 30,000 murders by paramilitaries linked to the regime of President Alvaro Uribe.

Haiti: not just a natural disaster

鈥淩ebuilding Haiti is important鈥, El Salvadoran solidarity activist Rafael Pacheco told a public forum on February 23. 鈥淏ut liberating the country is most important in the long run.

Merak refugees' conditions worsen

The Australian government continues to ignore the almost 250 Tamil refugees holding out on a boat in the port of Merak, West Java. But the conditions onboard grow more severe each day.