BY HEBA SALEH
CAIRO — As the United States raises the battle cry against terrorism, Algeria's military rulers — struggling with their own Islamist opposition — can clearly see an opportunity coming their way. Often criticised for their human
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@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
BY OWEN RICHARDS
SYDNEY — A student occupation of the Goolangullia Aboriginal unit at the Bankstown campus of the University of Western Sydney has entered its third week. The occupation — a rejection of a university restructure and its effects
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
BY NORM DIXON
Both the Taliban and the factions of the Northern Alliance are veterans of US imperialism's last great "crusade", against the Soviet Union and "communism".
Then, as now, Washington dishonestly justified its war against the Afghan
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
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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
BY NICK FREDMAN
LISMORE — Living in northern NSW, it has been impossible to miss anti-war activities with four actions in less than a week.
The most high profile action was a picket of National Party member for Page Ian Causley's campaign
Laying the blame
Yula Geredov ("Write On", GLW #466) claims that I have distorted the situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip by only providing the "Palestinian's account of the story". She claims that "blaming will not do a thing except