British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George Bush are facing inquiries into allegations they fabricated evidence on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in order to win public support for going to war.
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Socialist Alliance and 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly As a non-aligned member (NAM) of the Socialist Alliance, I look forward to when the Socialist Alliance (SA) becomes a multi-tendency party and has a paper which has the quality of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly. While
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SYDNEY — "Where were the students?", asked the June 20 Sydney Daily Telegraph, in an article by Rachel Morris bemoaning the small numbers of young people that attended the "welcome home" parade of troops who served in
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In Jakarta, around 1000 people, the majority women from the Women's Claim Alliance (APM), commemorated March 8, International Women's Day (IWD), by condemning increases to fuel prices and calling for a reduction in prices and the resignation of
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"We made it clear to the dictator of Iraq that he must disarm. We asked other nations to join us in seeing to it that he would disarm, and he chose not to do so, so we disarmed him. And I know there's a lot of revisionist history
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On June 26, federal parliament passed the controversial Australian Security Intelligence Organisation legislation. The powers given to ASIO and the Australian Federal Police are the most serious threat to civil liberties in our
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After declaring "the circle sentencing pilot in Nowra has been fantastically successful", New South Wales attorney-general Bob Debus has announced plans to roll out circle sentencing across the state. Next month, Dubbo will be the
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According to many long-time members of the Maritime Union of Australia, there has never before been such a rebellion from the ranks of the MUA and its forerunners — the Seamens Union of Australia and the Waterside Workers
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ASIO will be able to arrange for the Australian Federal Police to arrest and hold you for questioning for up to seven days. If this isn't long enough, another detention warrant can be issued. You don't have to have committed, be committing or be
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The federal Labor opposition's cave-in over the federal government's draconian ASIO bill is a dangerous mistake, warned John Van der Velden, a national co-convener of the Socialist Alliance on June 27. "In the name of fighting terrorism, ASIO is
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In late 2001, hundreds of B-52 fighter planes roared through the skies above Afghanistan. While these US-led coalition forces bombed the Taliban and hunted Osama bin Laden, around 2000 Afghan asylum seekers in Australia waited for
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SYDNEY — Promoting his latest state budget, released on June 24, NSW Labor treasurer Michael Egan has described it as a "true Labor budget", arguing that it fulfils social justice criteria because of the extra outlays in most
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SYDNEY — The ADI Residents Action Group (RAG) was disappointed, but not surprised, by the June 16 NSW government approval of the development of the old defence site at St Marys. Nearly 2000 homes will be built on 130 hectares of
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HOBART — A cost blow-out of more than $250 million for the Basslink underwater electricity cable across Bass Strait has been a focus of attention since Greens MPs began questioning Premier Jim Bacon's Labor government about
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GI means General Indignation "At first glance they appear to be the archetypal Band Of Brothers of Hollywood myth, brave and honest men united in common purpose. But a closer look at these American GIs, sweltering in the heat of an unwelcoming
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MELBOURNE — "It's crucial that we start to get out of our little boxes", said John Cummins, Victorian president of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), addressing the Victorian Socialist Alliance state
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PERTH — On June 9-10, the Western Australian government of Labor Premier Geoff Gallop rammed through a draconian law evicting the Swan Valley Nyungah Community (SVNC) from their traditional land. The Reserves (Reserve 43131)
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The Socialist Alliance has condemned the Australian government's decision to send warships and troops to police the Solomon Islands. Alliance members at the June 28 Victorian SA conference argued that Canberra would use the intervention to further
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Protest against new secret police powers ADELAIDE — A "journalist", a "minor" and a "neighbour" symbolically detained in a cage on the steps of Parliament House on June 25 were among 70 people protesting the new anti-terrorism law, under which
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SYDNEY — A last minute reprieve arrived for the NSW Working Women's Centre, whose current federal funding arrangement expires on June 30. At 4pm on June 27, the federal government announced a new arrangement. Fifty people
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Forty workers at Morris McMahon will return to work on July 1 after almost 16 weeks on strike. They have won union recognition and a registered agreement, a 5% pay rise each year for three years and a 19-day work month. Photo by Celine Brun.
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LAUNCESTON — The Sarwari family — Mohib, Fatima and their four children — will be able to stay in Australia for now. After a long struggle, the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) reinstated their temporary protection visa
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CANBERRA — Braving near-zero temperatures, 100 people assembled outside the entrance of the National Convention Centre from 8am on June 24 to protest against the 2003 Defence and Industry conference. The conference is staged
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MELBOURNE — Speaking through an interpreter at a press conference on June 27, Aleida Guevara, the eldest daughter of legendary Latin American revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, said the US government would dearly like to
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On June 25, Prime Minister John Howard announced that the cabinet's National Security Committee had decided to send 1200 troops — 200 of them combat soldiers — and 300 Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers to the Solomon Islands for at
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PARIS — As the danger of a general strike against his planned reform of the pension system receded, French social affairs minister Francois Fillon knew who to thank. He paid tribute to the "responsible attitude" of Bernard
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BY JIM MCILROY & ROBYN MARSHALL LIMA — The entire cabinet of Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo resigned on June 25, amid rising social tensions which threaten to bring down Toledo himself. This follows the refusal of his party, the Peru
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Up to 100,000 people protested over four days against the European Union summit at the resort of Porto Carras, near Thessaloniki. The protesters were saying "no" to neoliberalism, war, racism and Fortress Europe.
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Student leaders held sit-ins on June 22 in front of the Iranian parliament (Majlis) and inside Tehran University to protest the detention of classmates following violent attacks on student protests the previous week by pro-clerical
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Australian military intervention into the Solomon Islands, announced by Prime Minister John Howard on June 25, will not solve problems that are the legacy of more than a century of imperialist economic and political domination and the
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GLASGOW — Six weeks after the Scottish Socialist Party increased its representation in the Scottish Parliament from one to six MSPs, the SSP's network for young people — Scottish Socialist Youth (SSY) — held its second
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A survey by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime has found that Afghanistan has supplanted Burma as the world's largest source of illegal heroin. There are now 741 square kilometres of land being used to cultivate opium poppies in
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"The safety conditions in Afghanistan have deteriorated badly in the course of 2003 and one can't say that they have changed in a decisive, long-term or effective fashion. It is therefore hard to think of promoting repatriation [of
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RAMALLAH — Following the conclusion of the three-way summit between the US, Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Aqaba on June 4, Palestinian activists and political factions have reacted with a mixture of anger and
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LONDON — A conference of the Stop the War Coalition, held on June 21, has called for a national demonstration on September 27 to demand the end of the occupation of Iraq. The conference, attended by 700 people, heard a range of
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BY AUGUSTO ZAMORA R. In 2002, 1060 people were executed in China. In the United States around 400 have been executed since 1990, an average of 35 a year or three a month. Hundreds more executions have taken place in other countries, and that's
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On June 24, US journalist William Nessen gave himself up to the Indonesian military in the northern Acehnese village of Paya Dua. Nessen had been accompanying Free Aceh Movement (GAM) fighters since early May, before the outbreak of
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[The following statement was issued by 90 signatories on June 23, 2003. To view the signatories and sign on, visit <;.] We are organisations and groups concerned about human rights in Indonesia and about the
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the painin Baghdad is thereand everywhereand real asall day and nightthe news reportersreport it: on the faces of tired civiliansand soldiers fed up with Basra,trying hard to find new reasonsfor being where they now are. bush walks across the
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Links No 23128pp, $8Available at Resistance centres or on-line at <;. REVIEW BY BEN COURTICE The latest issue of Links magazine presents a very focused collection of articles discussing "challenges in uniting
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The World Health Organisation today issued a new warning against non-essential travel to the entire Western hemisphere following renewed concerns about the spread of Severe Loss of Perspective Syndrome (SLOPS). Officials are warning
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8 Mile DVDDirected by Curtis HansonWritten by Scott SilverStarring Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy, Mekhi Phifer, Eugene Byrd"All this terror, America demands actionNext thing you know, you've got Uncle Sam's ass