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YEMEN: US commits terrorist outrage

BY ROHAN PEARCE On November 3, six men in Yemen were murdered in cold blood by a US "hellfire" missile launched from a remote-controlled Predator aircraft. The men were "suspected" of being al Qaeda members. The explosion, which obliterated the

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Christmas parade for peace LAUNCESTON — "Peace on Earth and Goodwill to all" — As the US and its allies plan for war on Iraq and asylum seekers in Australia languish in detention, this simple Christmas message couldn't be more relevant.

Labor supports US-UN war on Iraq

It is a sign of how strong opposition to a war against Iraq has become that the Labor Party federal caucus on November 12 shifted its position slightly. But the shift is an illusion. Come a war, the ALP will almost certainly support it. The ALP now

ITALY: 1 million march against Bush's war on Iraq

JILL HICKSON, documentary filmmaker with Sydney's Actively Radical TV (ARTV), attended the European Social Forum in Florence and participated in the huge anti-war march on November 9. Here is her report. In every direction, all you could see was a

Tasmania to get 'best gay and lesbian laws in the world'

BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — The Tasmanian Labor government announced plans in early November to allow gay and lesbian couples to adopt children and to register their relationships (although not marriages) with the Office of Births, Deaths and

VENEZUELA: Chavez looks for an 'axis of good'

BY STUART MUNCKTON Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has answered right-wing commentators who have attacked Brazil's new president, the Workers' Party candidate, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, with the claim that Brazil will, with Venezuela and Cuba,

Freedom to travel is a First World privilege

BY SARAH STEPHEN "The young of Australia will not be deterred from travelling in the years ahead... We will continue to live the lives that we regard as the birthright of all Australians." Prime Minister John Howard made these comments during the

AMWU Campaign 2003 takes shape

BY SUE BULL MELBOURNE — Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) metal division stewards arrived from all over Victoria to discuss their next enterprise bargaining campaign on November 14. Over 250 stewards gave unanimous support to a

Socialist Alliance says 'don't let UN trick us into war'

BY ALISON DELLIT On November 13, the Socialist Alliance condemned the November 8 United Nations Security Council resolution on Iraq, arguing that it helped pave the way for war. "Even with United Nations Security Council backing, a war on Iraq

Canto Coro's 'Voices of the Masses'

MELBOURNE — A South American folk mass, sung by a 60-strong choir and accompanied by an Andean band, will be the major piece in the "Voices of the Masses" concert in Melbourne on November 22-24. Over the last nine years, the community choir Canto

ITALY: European Social Forum: 'Globalisation from below'

BY SEAN HEALY FLORENCE — It was always going to be a recipe for chaos. Take 40,000 European leftists, fractious at the best of times, shoe-horn them into a Renaissance-era Italian city and tell them to discuss, in half a dozen languages, the

DSP: 'Alliance too valuable to risk breakdown in relations'

BY JOHN PERCY [The following letter was sent on November 11 by Democratic Socialist Party national secretary John Percy on behalf of the political committee of the Democratic Socialist Party to the national executive of the International Socialist