BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN — “I'm here because I don't like injustice, and I don't like
being ashamed of my country”, declared Jack, one of the 250 people who
attended a public meeting in support of the East Timorese asylum seekers
on
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Anti-war forum discusses movement building
HOBART — A Socialist Alliance-initiated meeting on November 20 provided a forum for people to discuss the best way to oppose war on Iraq. Participants were addressed by federal Labor MP Harry Quick,
BY PATRICK BOND
JOHANNESBURG — On November 8, James Kilgore, the last fugitive member of the 1970s US terrorist group, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), was arrested in Cape Town. He was known in South Africa as John Pape, the respected left
BY ROHAN PEARCE
On September 12, US President George Bush addressed the United Nations General Assembly to set out the US regime's case for a bloody war on Iraq. Bush declared that the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein since 1998 had
BY JEREMY BRADLEY
The Middle East is in the grip of severe drought. Israel's farmers
are so highly dependant on irrigation that they require more than half
of the 1.55 billion cubic metres of water that is used annually within
Israel's
BY MICHAEL KARADJIS
"Politics has never seen such a widespread liquidation operation", declared the Turkish daily Sabah following the crushing victory of the "Islamist" Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey's November 3 general election.
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — In the United States, actor Susan Sarandon and other high-profile artists and performers are speaking out against the planned US-led war on Iraq. In Australia too, members of the arts and cultural communities are supporting
BY JIM GREEN
The largest shipment of high-level nuclear waste between France and Germany — 1300 tonnes of it — was trained and trucked from La Hague in France to Wendland in northern Germany. on November 11-14.
The waste was taken to a
BY KIM BULLIMORE
SYDNEY — Despite attempts by police to prevent it, an anti-war action
in Bankstown's Old Town Plaza on November 16 attracted 80 people. Initiated
by the Socialist Alliance and the Canterbury-Bankstown Anti-War Group,
the
US delegates dropped a bombshell at the Asian and Pacific Population Conference in late October. They announced that the US would withdraw its support for the"action plan" devised at the 1994 United Nations Population and Development Conference in
REVIEW BY ELIZABETH SCHULTE
War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to KnowWilliam Rivers Pitt interviews Scott RitterAllen and Unwin, 200278 pages, $9.95.
A former marine and a member of the Republican Party who voted for George W Bush,
BY TERRICA STRUDWICK
& SARAH STEPHEN
At the end of September, Abdur Wahab Najim, an Iraqi asylum seeker
in Villawood detention centre, was approached by an immigration department
official who offered him a passport and claimed that the
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