BY RIHAB CHARIDA
The emergence of the Al Aqsa Intifada (uprising) in September 2000 was inevitable. For years before, Palestinian population centres remained enclosed by a strict Israeli military cordon. The Palestinian people were being denied the
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There was little doubt about what feelings dwell in the heart of Negro Alpius Kogoyo, head of the Lani tribe of Mimika and commander of the Peoples Opposed to the Division of Papua.
BY MICK BULL
After two years and more than $60 million of taxpayers' money, the recommendations from the federal government's building industry royal commission have been put into proposed legislation. The draft Building and Construction Industry
Medicare campaign
Tom Freeman and Patrick McLeish, leading members of the International Socialist Organisation in Melbourne, take issue with parts of my interview (91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly #553) with Gary Harper, president of the Darebin Defend and Extend
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — David Hicks, who has been held at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for almost two years. His father, Terry, told 130 people attending a public meeting at the Trades Hall Auditorium on September 20 that he
Stuck with old script
"If we're successful in Iraq . . . then we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of ... the geographic base of the terrorists who had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11." — US
BY MEGAN CONNOR
SYDNEY — On September 11, 100 students participated in a student general meeting at the University of Western Sydney's Bankstown campus. They voted defend the autonomy of the Bankstown Student Association, which is threatened by
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
Ernie Gare died on August 17 at the age of 86. He was a member of the Communist Party of Australia from 1941 until the party dissolved itself in 1992, and a sympathiser of the Democratic Socialist Party thereafter.
Ernie's
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — At its September 15 meeting, attended by more than 60 people, the newly formed Stop the War Coalition decided to organise a giant protest when US President George Bush visits Australia in late October.
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BY PAUL BENEDEK
The socialist movement lost an inspiring campaigner when Socialist Alliance member and 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly supporter Jim Dooley died in Gosford, on the NSW Central Coast, on September 15, aged 73.
Jim, who had been a longtime,
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
Mootaz Attia, known in Australia as Abu Quassey, a self-proclaimed people smuggler of Egyptian nationality, went on trial in Egypt on September 13 for the manslaughter of 353 people on the boat now known as SIEV-X ("suspected
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