New evidence of brutality inside Australia's refugee camps
Reports are continuing to emerge of the brutal treatment of refugees, including children, inside Australia's immigration detention centres, despite denials and cover-ups directed by Immigration...
View ArticleNot so distant, but still distant
You Can Count on Me is a first feature film by screenwriter and playwright Kenneth Lonergan. At the 2000 Sundance Film Festival it was co-winner of the Grand Jury Prize and won the Waldo Salt...
View ArticleBritain's Conservatives spout racist law and order rhetoric
Britain's Conservative Party leader William Hague has set out his stall for the General Election—expected early next year—with an open appeal to racial prejudice and demands for more aggressive law and...
View ArticleHayes-Tilden dispute of 1876 foreshadowed eruption of class conflict
One hundred twenty-four years ago another disputed presidential election took place under conditions of sharp social polarization in the United States. The presidential contest of 1876 between Democrat...
View ArticleDetroit police gun down another mentally ill man
A mentally ill Detroit resident, 22-year-old Sharrone Mathews, was shot dead by police early on the morning of December 13. Nearly a dozen officers fired 80 rounds of ammunition at the young man who...
View ArticleAustralian government to abolish welfare entitlements
In one of its final acts for the year, the Australian government handed down a “directional statement” on December 14 that abolishes the social welfare payments system as it has existed since World War...
View ArticleUS Congress, Clinton shelve aid to low-paid and immigrant workers
The first victims of the stolen US presidential election are the most oppressed sections of the American working class. Acting only three days after the Supreme Court awarded the presidency to George...
View ArticleSri Lankan government and LTTE inch closer to negotiations
Under pressure from the major powers, the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are inching toward talks aimed at ending the civil war that has engulfed the island for...
View ArticleFamily ties, political bias linked US Supreme Court justices to Bush camp
It is a well-known fact that the five Supreme Court justices who threw the presidential election to George W. Bush in their ruling December 12 were appointed by Republican presidents—three by Ronald...
View ArticleAustralian power workers reject union attempt to impose job cuts
Power workers at Yallourn Energy in Victoria's La Trobe Valley have defied their union leadership and voted down a new three-year workplace agreement in a secret ballot conducted over three days. The...
View ArticleTurks mount protests in London
Demonstrators protesting the brutal killing of dozens of political prisoners by Turkey's security forces earlier this week occupied the London Eye—the English capital's big wheel attraction—on...
View ArticleNew York City police seek new restrictions on public protests
The New York City Police Department has proposed changes in the rules governing parades, rallies and protests. They amount to an attempt by the administration of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to further...
View ArticleTurkish state suppresses prison revolts
Brandishing rifles and waving the Turkish flag, thousands of right-wing policemen have demonstrated over the past days for the release of their colleagues in the prison service who have been convicted...
View ArticleRwanda on the offensive in Congo War
Rwandan troops and rebel forces of the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) have routed government troops of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The RCD has taken over the towns of Peta and Pweto in...
View ArticleWorkers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Union leaders close down postal strike in India
View ArticleBritain: Children targeted by police investigating ten-year-old's death
A 15 year old boy from Camberwell, South London was arrested on December 21 in connection with the death of 10 year old Damilola Taylor on November 27. The boy was arrested during a pre-dawn raid at...
View ArticleWall Street Journal targets Jesse Jackson: opening salvo in an attack on...
Within the establishment press the Wall Street Journal serves as a mouthpiece for the most right-wing elements of the Republican Party and American ruling circles in general. Thus the appearance of an...
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