BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — The Victorian Peace Network (VPN) decided at its meeting on September 9 not to organise a rally to coincide with US President George Bush's visit to Australia. However the meeting, attended by 21 people, agreed to fund
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BY JAMES BALOWSKI
JAKARTA — Indonesian government officials and high-ranking military officers have been hinting that, despite the military's (TNI) much-touted successes in its war against the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in the province
BY MATTHEW DIMMOCK
John Bolton did time in US President Ronald Reagan's administration in the 1980s. More recently, he was vice-president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and a member of the Project for the New American Century, two key
BY SALLY HARBISON
"We are Aboriginal Women — Yankunytjatjara, Antikarinya and Kokatha. We know the country. We know the stories for the land. We are worrying for the country and we're worrying for our kids. We say, 'No radioactive dump in our
BY JACK A. SMITH
The Bush administration is in a panic as its political, military and economic house of cards in Iraq is beginning to collapse card by card. Nothing but an impending debacle that might subvert President George Bush's re-election
BY RUSSELL PICKERING
PERTH — Fifty building sites from Woodvale to Kwinana ground to a halt on September 8 as 4000 construction workers downed tools for 24 hours to protest the death toll in the building industry.
The latest fatality, that of a
"If cities are destroyed by flames, if women and children are victims of suffocating gases, if the population in open cities far from the front perish due to bombs dropped from planes, it will be impossible for the enemy to continue the war". This was German Nazi military strategist MK Dertzen's theory.
BY MARY MERKENICH
In the week preceding the September 17 Australia- wide day of industrial action by teachers' unions, including 24-hour strikes by teachers in three states and a half day stop-work in the ACT, the Victorian branch of the Australian
BY CHRISTANO KERRILA
A revolution is unfolding in Venezuela and a life and death struggle is taking place between the future and the past. Venezuela's mainstream national media is almost totally monopolised by the corrupt capitalist oligarchy.
BY CHRIS LATHAM
Between July 2000 and June 2001, more than 300 workers were killed and more than 220,000 workers were injured in Australian workplaces. This is on top of the 2254 workers killed, and the 900,000 workers injured, during the previous
Imperious request
"We cannot let past differences interfere with present duties." — Emperor George Bush II, September 6, "asking" for France, China and Russia not to veto the creation of a UN-approved, US commanded multinational combat force in
BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
PERTH — An October 25 "End the occupation of Iraq" rally has been planned as the main focus of anti-war activists here. A mass anti-war march on Perth, initiated by the Perth No War Alliance, will coincide with rallies planned
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