LAHORE — Since the bombing of neighbouring Afghanistan began, thousands of Pakistani religious elements, including young students, have taken to the streets all over Pakistan — and have been met by police violence, tear gas,
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General Electric is one of the biggest corporations in the world — and one of its biggest arms manufacturers. Its engines power the war machine. GE operates in more than 100 countries, including Australia, and employs 313,000 people. Its products
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As gut-wrenching as it will be, on November 10 either Prime "Menzies" John Howard or Labor's Kim "Bomber" Beazley will be prime minister and one of Australia's corporate political parties will control the federal government.
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BY ROB INDER-SMITH DARWIN — Socialist Alliance senate candidate Gary Meyerhoff dropped a bombshell on live television on October 4 when he suggested that Northern Territory's chief minister Clare Martin had "just lied to us on national TV" about
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ONE Day eleven people poisoned themselves here.Somewhere between those blinded by diseaseand those blinded by rockets. TWO Eyes that rested in fever and never moved again;eyes that saw the atom. THREE Armies who have taken chargehave banned
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SYDNEY — Living in Parramatta, one of Australia's most marginal federal seats, I have received a startling increase in mail over the last few months. On October 10, two remarkably similar letters were plopped into my letterbox.
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In this crucial juncture of Pakistan's history, please help the Labour Party Pakistan to fight the terror of religious fundamentalism and US imperialism's war on Afghanistan. The LPP has a very proud record of fighting in practice
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Walking time bombs "The great secret, the deeply buried mystery of the apparent apathy to crime and to proposals for better controlling crime, lies in the persistent, intrusive wish for vengeance." — Karl Menninger, MD. Administratively
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[Australian Arabic Council chairperson Roland Jabbour issued the following statement on October 8.] In principle, we support any action against international terrorism in all its forms. However, we are concerned that the latest attacks on
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On September 27, Guy Verhofstadt, the Belgian prime minister and European Union (EU) president, wrote an open letter to what he calls the "anti-globalisation movement", in which he questioned "contradictions" in its arguments, claimed
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Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Ph 9565 5522. Visit <; for
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Both the Taliban and the factions of the Northern Alliance are veterans of US imperialism's last great "crusade", against the Soviet Union and "communism". Then, as now, Washington dishonestly justified its war against the Afghan
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BY SARAH STEPHEN & DANIEL MOYA Bashir Shamkhi's wife and three children were on the boat intercepted by the HMAS Adelaide on October 7. He knows exactly the desperation and fear which led some to jump overboard when confronted by the warship and
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Taking control In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the FBI has stepped up its campaign to police the internet. According to media reports, major internet service providers that had previously resisted
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Opposition to the United States' war on Afghanistan should be a major focus in upcoming Reclaim the Night marches around the country. Feminists played a key role in the anti-Vietnam war movement in the 1960s, the movement against the Gulf war in
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In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed. The terrorists killed workers of 50 countries in New York City and Washington, DC, in the name of good against evil. And in the name of good against
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Operation Enduring Freedom will not be remembered as US President George Bush and his global messenger British Prime Minister Tony Blair would prefer, by global peace movements, by the Islamic world, or by the world's women.
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The terrorist attack in the United States on September 11 has led to renewed calls for the Australian government to cancel its plan to build a 20-megawatt nuclear research reactor in the southern Sydney suburb of Lucas Heights. But the
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HOBART — The cloud hanging over abortion services in Tasmania since the closure of the state's only free-standing clinic in March has darkened. On October 12, abortion service provider Marie Stopes International confirmed it
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On October 7, US President George Bush announced that the shooting war component of the US military's "Operation Enduring Freedom" was underway. But perhaps a more apt title for the US war on Afghanistan would be Operation Enduring
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In a cave in a remote valley of the Hindu Kush, a bearded man is holed up. He is the person responsible, more than any other, for the worst outrages of modern terrorism. He must be located, captured, killed. How to find him? He
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Laying the blame Yula Geredov ("Write On", GLW #466) claims that I have distorted the situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip by only providing the "Palestinian's account of the story". She claims that "blaming will not do a thing except
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CANBERRA — The October 20 elections in the Australian Capital Territory are being contested by far more than the usual major party candidates. Nurses angry about the meltdown in health, outer suburbanites disgruntled with service
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MELBOURNE — In a win for left-wing students, activist ticket No War No Racism has won the position of education officer on the La Trobe University Students Representative Council in the student elections which finished on October
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Unbelievable "I'm amazed that ... people would hate us. Like most Americans, I just can't believe it because I know how good we are." — US President George Bush on the hostility expressed in the Middle East to his war on Afghanistan. We only
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SYDNEY — A student occupation of the Goolangullia Aboriginal unit at the Bankstown campus of the University of Western Sydney has entered its third week. The occupation — a rejection of a university restructure and its effects
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SYDNEY — For two days, beginning on October 7 every section of the corporate media, from TV to newspaper, reported that a group of around 220 Iraqi asylum seekers had callously thrown their children overboard before themselves
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Trade union opponents of the US "war on terrorism" have had success garnering support within the labour movement. Here is a model motion 91̳ Weekly readers should move in their union: The [name of union] shares the horror of people around
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Upcoming actions Adelaide: Sunday November 4, 2pm. Victoria Square. Brisbane: Saturday October 20, 11am. Defence Force Recruiting Centre, 288 Edward Street, City. Canberra: Friday October 19, 5.30pm. Garema Place, Civic. Geelong: Saturday
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HOBART — Anti-war fever hit the University of Tasmania on October 11 as more than 200 students attended a lunch-time rally organised by the Network Opposing War and Racism (NOWAR) student group. Shua Garfield, a member of the
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ADELAIDE — "George W. Bush has said that anyone who is not supporting his 'war against terrorism' is standing with the terrorists. Well, we are here to tell George W. Bush that we don't stand with him or with the terrorists. We
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Following in the tradition of unions which took a strong stand against the Vietnam War, some unions have adopted motions opposing US military retaliation for the attack on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11. The
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BY CHRIS SLEE& SUE BOLTON MELBOURNE — Between 8000-10,000 building workers marched through central Melbourne and converged on the Collins Street headquarters of the federal royal commission into the building industry on October 10, the day of the
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SYDNEY — "The attacks on Afghanistan are already costing lives. There are lots of people who can see the hypocrisy of George Bush calling for justice for the victims of the September 11 attacks and then bombing Afghanistan and
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ROCKHAMPTON — Its launch was long-awaited by many on campus, but the newly formed Resistance club at Central Queensland University has burst into action with two public forums in quick succession, urging Rockhampton students,
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MELBOURNE — Supporters of peace and justice sprang into action as soon as they heard that US bombing raids on Afghanistan had begun, rallying in their thousands on the evening of October 8. By far the largest action happened
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BRISBANE — While originally billed as a "counter-conference" to the planned Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, a teach-in attended by over 150 activists expanded its field of vision and discussed the US war in the Middle East
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LISMORE — Living in northern NSW, it has been impossible to miss anti-war activities with four actions in less than a week. The most high profile action was a picket of National Party member for Page Ian Causley's campaign
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Anti-war message comes to UCan CANBERRA — The anti-war movement came to the University of Canberra on October 19, when activists held a speakout and petition stall, with props highlighting the truth about George Bush's "war on terrorism".
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@box text intr = In a speech to the British Labour Party's annual conference on October 2, billed as the formal announcement of war with Afghanistan, Tony Blair outlined the sort of world the imperialist powers' claim they want to construct out of
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BY PATRICK CRAVEN& PHILEMON LUKHELE JOHANNESBURG — Mario Masuku, president of Swaziland's opposition People's United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO), was arrested on October 4 and charged with failing to report to the police station as required
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CHICAGO — "I don't know of any American that hasn't been inspired with the understanding of the willingness of law enforcement to do whatever is necessary to secure the safety of American citizens." That's what Attorney General
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CAIRO — As the United States raises the battle cry against terrorism, Algeria's military rulers — struggling with their own Islamist opposition — can clearly see an opportunity coming their way. Often criticised for their human
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CHICAGO — "The only way they're going to hear us is in the streets. No to war! Yes to peace!" That was the message that Lucas Benitez had for the crowd of Chicago protesters who gathered just hours after George Bush began raining
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0nly by the latter years of the first intifada (uprising), which erupted at the end of 1987 did the buds of Palestinian military activity appear. However, this is in no way comparable with the developments witnessed in the "Aqsa
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RAMALLAH — Over the last week a new political term has entered the lexicon of Israeli political commentators and government spokespersons: "Arafat's Alatalena moment". The reference is to the ship which was shelled by the leader of
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The day after the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of state in the Nixon administration, demanded that the US government "destroy the network" of whoever committed the
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DILI — The Constituent Assembly elected in September had been in place for less than two weeks when on September 26 a demonstration of around 300 people demanded that its deliberations be opened to the people through public
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More than 40,000 people marched in London on October 13 against the US-British military attacks on Afghanistan. At the same time, 5000 people protested against the war in Glasgow. The London anti-war protest, which marched from Hyde Park to Trafalgar
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US firm Kerr McGee and French oil group TotalFinaElf have won lucrative concessions from the Moroccan government, granting them permission to explore potentially rich oilfields off the coast of occupied Western Sahara. During an
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The United States has given its clearest hints yet that the "war on terrorism" will extend to many more targets than Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban and many more countries than Afghanistan. In the first days after the terrorist
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The public display of the American flag has been hailed as a symbol of "national unity" and "resolve" by George Bush, network news anchors and politicians of both mainstream parties. But many protests against the US war drive have
Culture
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How does a working-class hero reconcile conservative ideas with a revolutionary reputation? After participating in a Melbourne press conference with Billy Bragg, I am convinced it is an amusing and confusing exercise in
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REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Howard Zinn on WarBy Howard ZinnSeven Stories Press, 2001206 pages, $34.95 (pb) With every militarist hothead in press and parliament lashing themselves into a frenzy over the war they have just started against Afghanistan,