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Activists converge for counter-conference

BY MIKE BYRNE 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

SWAZILAND: Arrest of democracy leader condemned

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

Loose cannons

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

Blair's siren call

@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

Socialist Alliance scores direct hit

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

Anti-war actions and coalitions

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

Looking out: Walking time bombs

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

Our 'globalisation' against theirs

BY SEAN HEALY 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

Building workers protest Abbott's kangaroo court

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

'We don't want your racist war'

BY BRONWEN BEECHEY 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

EAST TIMOR: 'PST's views on democracy are different'

BY RAMANI DE SILVA 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

The theatre of good and evil

BY EDUARDO GALEANO 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