BY AHMAD NIMER
RAMALLAH — In the week after the meeting between Palestinian Authority head Yasser Arafat and Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres on September 26 and the announcement of a much-vaunted joint cease-fire, 30 Palestinians were
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
On September 24, six pieces of legislation were rammed through the Senate after debate was gagged with the support of the Labor Party. A seventh law was still being debated at the close of sitting. The laws will dramatically
BY FAROOQ TARIQ
LAHORE — Adil is a leader of the Afghanistan Labour Revolutionary Organisation who lives in exile in Pakistan. He secretly visited the Afghan city of Jalalabad on September 16-19 to assess the situation and to consult with his
[The following speech was made by Cuban President Fidel Castro in Havana on September 22, 2001.]
No one can deny that terrorism is today a dangerous and ethically indefensible phenomenon, which should be eradicated regardless of its deep origins,
BY VIV MILEY
More than 200 young socialist activists from across the country met in the Victorian sea-side town of Anglesea for the 30th annual Resistance conference on September 28-29. A central focus of the conference was how to build opposition
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary WollstonecraftBy Diane JacobsAbacus, 2001333 pages, $28 (pb)
A "hyena in petticoats", wrote London literary eminence Horace Walpole in 1795 in a fit of misogynist pique against Mary
BY SEAN HEALY
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Washington, DC, on September 29-30 weekend in opposition to President George Bush's plans to launch a war in the Middle East in retaliation for the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US.
US President George Bush would like us to believe he is about to liberate the Afghan people from the tyranny of the Taliban. He's promised US$320 million worth of humanitarian aid, some of which is to be air-dropped into Afghanistan — once the
Wollongong
Five hundred people turned up to the "world's biggest hug for peace" on October 1, Stuart Martin reports. A week before a rally for peace initiated by the Socialist Alliance attracted 150 people.
Called by peace activists, the Hug for
BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — "We are here today to say we will not support Bush and his allies in their frantic drive to retaliate. Revenge will not stop terrorism, war will not stop terrorism; war will only generate more horrendous terrorist acts",
A ConversationBy David WilliamsonDirected by Sandra BatesEnsemble Theatre, SydneyUntil November 3
REVIEW BY BRENDAN DOYLE
The theme of violence against innocents, and the justice or impunity that follows, has never been more timely. The real
BY ALISON DELLIT
In 1970, thousands of young people joined Edwin Starr in asking "War — What is it good for?". In 2001, Prime Minister John Howard has come up with an answer — winning elections.
Before September 11, Howard was facing down one
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