BY AHMAD NIMER
RAMALLAH, Palestine — The October 17 assassination of tourism minister Rehevem Ze'evi, a hated leader of Israel's racist right, was greeted with huge public approval from the Palestinian street, but has since then provided a
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BY NORM DIXON
The crude efforts by a faction of the US government to link anthrax-infected letters to the Saddam Hussein regime — without a shred of evidence — are an attempt to win greater public support for an extension of Washington's "war
Billy Bragg I
Like Daniel Sullivan ("Bollocks", Write On, GLW #468), I appreciate the music of Billy Bragg but unlike Daniel I find some of Billy's recent political stands quite obnoxious.
Unfortunately, I missed his recent round of concerts but
For each other's sake
"In my opinion, the young generation of whites, blacks, browns, whatever else there is: you're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution, a time when there's got to be a change. People in power have misused it, and
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — In a combined mass meeting on October 24, 10,000 construction unionists have decided not to cooperate with the royal commission into the industry set up by the federal government and have backed a united industrial
BY NORM DIXON
The fear of "bio-terrorism" in the United States is being cynically used to whip up war fever by politicians, the "attack Iraq" faction of the US administration and the mass media in the wake of the deaths of a Florida media worker on
BY VIRGINIA BROWN
PERTH — The variety of backgrounds of the 30 activists who gathered for Socialist Alliance's first "politics in the pub" forum on October 19 — refugee rights and anti-war campaigners, candidates from different left-wing
BY SHUA GARFIELD
HOBART — The Hobart City Council is considering banning the distribution of Green Left Weekly in Elizabeth Mall, one of the city's main public spaces.
Council referred a motion banning the newspaper's distribution back to
BY SARAH STEPHEN
A 19-metre, rotting, leaky Indonesian fishing boat, with a capacity for 150 passengers, picked up more than 400 asylum seekers from Lampung on October 18 to make the journey to Christmas Island. A few hours out to sea, the boat
BY GILLIAN DAVY
MELBOURNE — The eighth anti-war rally in the six weeks since the September 11 terrorist attacks attracted 400 protesters on October 21, including strong contingents from the Turkish and Kurdish communities.
Speaking to the crowd
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