Nation or religion?
Shua Garfield (Write On #495) rightly claims Jews can live peaceably among non-Jews but he must admit to do so they often have to accept and suffer anti-Semitism wherever they so choose to live, hence the Zionist allure of a
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BY NOAM CHOMSKY
"What we feared has come true", Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling wrote in a leading newspaper in Israel a year ago. Jews and Palestinians are "regressing to superstitious tribalism... War appears an unavoidable fate", an "evil
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — The Socialist Alliance has announced what it describes as "the most ambitions socialist campaign ever for a Tasmanian state election". The Tasmanian Labor government has called an early election for July 20.
"We will
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Immigration minister Philip Ruddock, in the June 7 Canberra Times, warned public servants not to get involved in politics by supporting the World Refugee Day rallies for refugees' rights on June 22-23.
Andrew Hall, spokesperson
BY JIM GREEN
The United States government formally withdrew from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty on June 13. The withdrawal is part of the US government's broader plans to upgrade its nuclear arsenal, enhance its nuclear "first-strike"
BY SUE BOLTON
MELBOURNE — Four of the seven Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) members charged over alleged vandalism during a "run-through" at office of Skilled Engineering in Box Hill on June 15, 2001, have been committed to stand
BY EVA CHENG
In the latest attack on a growing struggle by peasants for land rights in Punjab, police raided seven villages in the Khanewal district on June 8. Eight people were arrested. Many more would have been detained had it not been for the
BY BRIGGS BOMBA
HARARE — Riot police and ruling party thugs on June 16 viciously attacked a peaceful commemoration of the 1976 Soweto uprising. More than 70 people were beaten and arrested. Munyaradzi Gwisai, Zimbabwe's only socialist member of
We are looking for any musicians interested in performing at a Rock for the Refugees benefit concert to be held in Sydney some time in August.
We want to hear from any artists who can help out. Please contact Mike Cook at
BY SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON
PERTH — The Western Australian Labor government has passed legislation that will allow WA police to conduct compulsory DNA tests.
By November 1, WA police will routinely obtain DNA samples from a wide range of suspects,
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