Below are excerpts from a leaflet distributed in January at New York screenings of Black Hawk Down by the Act Now to Stop War & End Racism (ANSWER) anti-war coalition.
In his review of Black Hawk Down, New York Times movie reviewer Elvis Mitchell
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BY SUE BOLTON
A heated dispute which broke out in November within the New Zealand Alliance over its MPs support for the sending of SAS troops to participate in the US-led war in Afghanistan appears to have ended in a compromise.
After a vigorous
ADELAIDE — One of the key policies for the Socialist Alliance in campaign for the February 9 South Australian election is refugee rights. Green Left Weekly's JO ELLIS spoke to TOM BERTULEIT, Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of Adelaide.
Imagine that your cupboard was also a dishwasher — simply pile in dirty dishes, and don't bother taking them out until they are needed again. Imagine a self-cleaning toilet. What about having your clothes washed and dried in the same closet you
BY PETER BOYLE
Progressive movements worldwide are under pressure from the US-led "war on terrorism" (actually a war against the Third World) and the associated ideological offensive against global solidarity. The world's corporate rulers and their
BY TIM E.STEWART
BRISBANE — A car, bus and bicycle cavalcade to the March 2 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is being planned. The meeting will be held at the Hyatt Resort at Coolum Beach on the Sunshine Coast, north of Brisbane.
Socialist Alliance stands for Moreland council
MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance will stand two candidates in the Moreland City Council elections on March 16. Jonathan Sherlock will contest Hoffman ward, where he received 4.7% of the vote in a
BY KATE WILSON
"A boy my age inside tried to hang himself with his bed sheet last night", 16-year-old Resistance member Jess Melvin told protesters holding a vigil outside western Melbourne's Maribyrnong detention centre on January 24. "I can go to
Bin Laden, Saddam behind pretzel attack
BY ROHAN PEARCE
Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet believes that there is "credible evidence" linking Osama bin Laden to the attempted assassination of George Bush with a pretzel. Studies by
After organising Australia-wide emergency 24-hour hunger strikes in solidarity with protesting refugees between January 24-27, Resistance is calling on more young people to do the same.
"Philip Ruddock claims that hunger striking indicates
BY JENNY LONG
SYDNEY — Around 90 Labor Party and union members gathered on January 22 to hold the first organising meeting of a Labor for Refugees group.
Secretary of the NSW Labor Council John Robertson announced the group's formation in
BYTAMARA PEARSON
SYDNEY — Around 250 of the refugees in Woomera belong to the Hazara ethnic group from Afghanistan. Zaher, a long-time activist in Afghanistan before he escaped in 1999, explained to Green Left Weekly why immigration minister
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