BY ELISABETH KEAN& NORM DIXON
Beginning on October 9, a suburb of the Gaza Strip city of Rafah and three refugee camps on its fringes were invaded by the Israeli military. Israel sent more than 100 tanks and bulldozers, backed by US-supplied Apache
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MANILA — At least 50,000 people mobilised across the Philippines on October 18 as US President George Bush, arrived for an eight-hour visit. At least 10,000 people jammed the main thoroughfare leading to the House of
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In a humiliating backdown, Bolivia's president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada resigned as president on October 17 and fled to the United States. Lozada resigned as his last remaining supporters in cabinet deserted him in the face of huge
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Israel's government on October 5 launched a missile attack on Syria, claiming that it was acting in "self-defence". The assault was the first Israeli strike into Syrian territory in 30 years. Israel declared that the missile strike
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Around 100,000 protesters filled the streets of London on September 27 to oppose the US-led occupation of Iraq and to demand that British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour government pull British troops out of Iraq. There was a sea
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Activists around Australia are preparing for big anti-war protests to coincide with the visit to Australia by US President George Bush. Bush is expected to arrive any time after October 21. The biggest protest is likely to be in
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On July 31, Israel's Knesset (parliament) overwhelmingly passed an apartheid-like marriage law. The law forbids Palestinians who marry Israeli citizens from obtaining Israeli citizenship or permits to live with their spouses and
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The Nigeria Labour Congress, the country's peak council of blue-collar trade unions, early on July 8 "suspended" a general strike as it entered its ninth day. The strike had been called in response to massive petrol and kerosene price
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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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The parents of a British solidarity activist shot in the head by Israeli occupation forces on April 11 have accused the Israeli government of deliberate recklessness. The attack, the third on foreign supporters of the
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"The allegation ... of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is an excuse [the US uses] when we have it out for other countries", Jon Wolfsthal, deputy director of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International
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BY NORM DIXON & BARRY SHEPPARD Even as the world's corporate media was declaring the end of the Iraq war, on April 12 as many as 2 million people mobilised across the globe to oppose the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. In