BY JAMES CAULFIELD
CANBERRA — Five-hundred people attended a November 30 rally outside the US Embassy and Prime Minister John Howard's residence, the Lodge.
The protest was organised by the ACT Network Opposing War. Speakers included ALP MP
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BY ROHAN PEARCE
In a set-back for Washington, on November 19 Danish government prosecutors have charged Nizar al Khazraji with war crimes. Khazraji is the highest-ranking general to have defected from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime. The
BY JAMES BALOWSKI
On November 27, an Indonesian court sentenced notorious militia chief Eurico Guterres to 10 years in prison for crimes committed during the violence in East Timor following the 1999 referendum for independence.
The judge said
COMMENT
BY TIM GOODEN
GEELONG — As a Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union steward
and activist, I am concerned with the decision by the CFMEU and the Victorian
Trades Hall Council (VTHC) to become so identified with a “Vote 1
BY BUSTER SOUTHERLY
Green Day's singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong has spoken out against US President George Bush's moves to wage war on the people of Iraq. He has launched an online petition to build opposition to war among Green Day fans and
BY SONALI KOLHATKAR
The US military campaign in Afghanistan was called Operation Enduring Freedom. In January, US President George Bush said in his State of the Union address, "The last time we met in this chamber, the mothers and daughters of
BY BIANCA BILLIK
In the central Australian desert, just 19 kilometre south-west of Alice Springs, is the Pine Gap Joint Military Defence Facility. In simple terms, Pine Gap is a US military spy base. Pine Gap will play an important role in any
BY JAMES CAULFIELD
CANBERRA — People in the ACT could soon be faced with attacks on their civil liberties in the form of new "anti-terror" laws being put to the ACT Legislative Assembly. On December 10, a new bill will be debated by the
BY PETER BOYLE
As the possibilities for deeper left unity is being debated within the Socialist Alliance, the Socialist Alternative (SAlt) group has written to the International Socialist Organisation (ISO) to suggest unity talks between the two
BY TOM FLANAGAN
LISMORE — Around 350 people attended a lively and colourful "No War on Iraq" rally at Spinks Park on November 30.
Speakers included Mavis Davies, a Bundjalung elder, Lismore councillor and former mayor Ros Irwin, Sister Margaret
BY JORGE JORQUERA
On November 24, former army colonel Lucio Gutierrez comfortably won the Ecuadorean presidential elections as the candidate of the Patriotic Society January 21 (SP21) alliance and Pachakutik, the main national Indigenous people's
BY JODY BETZIEN
The Baxter refugee detention centre near Port Augusta in South Australia is the latest addition to the federal government's anti-refugee arsenal. The purpose-built facility was supposed to demonstrate the government's commitment to
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