BY ROBYN MARSHALL
BRISBANE — "As socialists, we ignore our own history at our peril", Jim McIlroy, author of a new pamphlet by Resistance Books, Australia's First Socialists, told a book launch sponsored by 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly on October 29.
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BY AUSTIN WHITTEN
SYDNEY — Anthony Billingsley, a former foreign affairs officer and Office of National Assessments analyst, abruptly cancelled a lecture at Macquarie University on October 23, the day before it was to be delivered.
The ONA, his
BY BRYAN SKETCHLEY
A number of recent articles in 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly have carried a common thread of argument for what the anti-war movement needs to be doing now, its strategies and goals. That line of thought was succinctly encapsulated in the
Israel's "defence" ministry announced new plans on October 24 for the route of "apartheid wall" that would eventually cut off the Jordan River Valley from the West Bank, which would mean annexing the main food basket for Palestinians.
A senior
BY NORM DIXON
Noam Chomsky, the distinguished US political scientist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, has attended the 25th Assembly of the Latin American Social Science Council. Addressing the conference on October 29, also
BY ALAN MAASS
CHICAGO — The October 25 demonstrations marked the first national US mobilisation of the anti-war movement since the US-led invasion of Iraq. The demonstrations in Washington and San Francisco came after the systematic lies of US
BY DOUG LORIMER
Chants of "Hell no, we won't go, we won't fight for Texaco!" and "Hey Bush, we know you, your daddy was a liar, too!" echoed through the streets of downtown Washington on October 25 as around 100,000 people marched in the largest US
BY CATHERINE COOK
WEST BANK — In Jayyous, a village of 3000 inhabitants in the northern West Bank, Najah Shamasneh cradles her granddaughter in her lap and listens to her husband Yusuf tell of the loss of their agricultural land. The Shamasneh
BY ALISON DELLIT
SYDNEY — Around 350 people attended the Sydney Social Forum, held at the city campus of the University of Technology Sydney, on October 24-26.
The forum was launched with a plenary, titled "Is the American empire unstoppable?",
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
BRISBANE — Twenty-five years after Australians first marched against sexual violence, women and children again took to the streets on October 31 to Reclaim the Night, which is an international event held on the last Friday in
On October 25, US President George Bush announced that he would sign into law the ban on very late-term abortions (mistakenly referred to as "partial-birth" by right-wingers) passed by the US Senate on October 21. When he does, it will be the first
Web of Deceit: Britain's Real Role in the WorldBy Mark CurtisVintage, 2003512 pages, $24.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
"We must at all costs maintain control of this oil", Britain's foreign secretary wrote to the US secretary of state in 1956.
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