On July 23, defence minister Brendan Nelson announced that Canberra is willing to contribute armed Australian soldiers to a "robust" (meaning armed and prepared to carry out combat operations) international "peacekeeping" force to "stablise" Lebanon.
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Dave Hill Ted Grant co-founded and led Militant in Britain in 1964, which grew to become the most effective and largest Trotskyist organisation in Britain. At its height it had 8000 members, three MPs (and other fellow-travellers) and more
Zoe Kenny In a July 24 speech to the Sydney Institute, federal ALP leader Kim Beazley threw his weight behind the pro-uranium wing in his party, which is itching to scrap the party's "no new mines" policy at next year's Labor Party national
Coral Wynter&Jim McIlroy, Caracas Around 10,000 people rallied in the Poliedro amphitheatre on June 29 to celebrate the third anniversary of the founding of the Frente Francisco de Miranda. The FFM is the leading organisation mobilising youth in
Dale T. McKinley, Johannesburg The alliance is dead! Long live the alliance! That about sums up the politics of the organisational marriage between the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of
In February, supporters of women's right to choose abortion succeeded in removing the abortion drug RU486 from politicians' control — including Christian fundamentalist health minister Tony Abbott — and giving it back to the medical
John Pilger The National Museum of American History is part of the celebrated Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Surrounded by mock Graeco-Roman edifices with their soaring Corinthian columns, rampant eagles and chiselled profundities, it is
Stuart Munckton The 30th Common Market of the South (Mercosur) summit was held on July 20-21 in Cordoba, Argentina, and was the first presidential summit since Mercosur accepted Venezuela as a full member on July 4. Mercosur also includes Brazil,
Emma Clancy As second semester begins on university campuses around the country, students are organising against Israel's wars on Lebanon and Gaza, and making plans to hold on-campus demonstrations and public forums to express their outrage at the
Kim Bullimore While most world attention has focused on the brutal Israeli attack on Lebanon, Israeli occupation forces have continued to their month-long assault on the Gaza Strip. Since June 28, Israeli occupation forces have carried out more than
SYDNEY — Thirty people attended a forum organised by the Parramatta Peace Group on July 29 on the theme of "Iran and the myth of a nuclear threat". The keynote speaker, Greens Senator Kerry Nettle, restated the Greens' opposition to nuclear energy
Pip Hinman A holocaust is engulfing Lebanon. Hundreds of civilians are dead, thousands injured. Entire villages and suburbs have been destroyed. The United Nations says that a third of the casualties in Lebanon are children, and that a million
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