Ian Jamieson, Fremantle
After four weeks on strike, 430 workers involved in the expansion of the BHP-owned Worsley Alumina plant near Bunbury in south-west Western Australia appear close to victory in a dispute in which individual strikers were
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On March 1, South African police opened fire on a group of unarmed striking road freight workers in Johannesburg. The workers were toyi-toying on the pavement, a block from a mass rally of the strikers, who are demanding a 9% wage increase, when a
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane
He was the "minister for black-outs, now he's the minister for out-Blacks", Aboriginal leader Sam Watson told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly on March 4, describing the new Queensland minister for Aboriginal policy, John Mickel.
Mickel
Figures released on February 28 by the Morgantown veteran centre reveal that the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have produced the most grievously wounded veterans since the Vietnam War ended in 1975. Of the 244,054 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans
REVIEW BY ROGER ANNIS
Cuba: A Revolution in Motionby Isaac SaneyFernwood Press and Zed Press240 pages, $25
How was it possible for poor and beleaguered Cuba to win twice as many Olympic medals as Canada?
Why was Cuba able to send more than
On the evening of March 2 at Jakarta airport, Dr Ed Aspinall, a lecturer in South East Asian history at the University of Sydney, was prevented from entering Indonesia.
Most unemployed people receiving social security payments live below the poverty line.
Single jobless people receive benefits of almost 25% less than the official poverty line.
The amount received by unemployed people relative to the poverty line
Amnesty International has just published a disturbing report on the plight of women in Iraq. The report reveals how sanctions, war and occupation have wiped out years of advances made by Iraqi women. Two years of war and occupation have driven women
Depleted uranium
Hundreds of thousands of Gulf War veterans are now suffering from a syndrome which eminent scientists like Doug Rokke, former head of the Pentagon's Depleted Uranium Project, attribute to exposure to depleted uranium. DU has been
Doug Lorimer
"Residents of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province some 100 kilometres west of Baghdad, have started to flee the city following the latest offensive launched by US Marines and the [puppet] Iraqi army", IRIN news, the news service of
Robyn Marshall, Brisbane
An International Women's Day rally and march on March 5, attended by 400 people, called for the decriminalisation of abortion.
Long-time abortion rights campaigner Katrina Barben condemned the state Labor government for
No quick fix
"The insurgency in Iraq is not likely to be put down in a year or even two since history shows such uprisings can last a decade or more, the United States' top military commander says. Air Force General Richard Myers says that in the
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