BY ROHAN PEARCE
MELBOURNE
Even if United Nations Security Council support for this war is granted,
the agenda behind the war won't change, Kim Halpin, a member of Resistance
and the La Trobe University education officer, told a
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On September 24, British Prime Minister Tony Blair presented his much-anticipated "dossier", Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction, to the parliament. Supporters of a US attack on Iraq had promised that Blair would provide the definitive "evidence" that
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA As the Indonesian economy sinks into even deeper crisis, a major social and political crisis has begun to unfold. This crisis began with the September 11 re-election by the Jakarta provincial parliament of retired general
Santa's little helpers
"The HIH royal commission has heard the company threw extravagant Christmas parties for staff a little over a year before the company collapsed. The commission has been told HIH spent almost $1.2 million on Christmas parties
Paradise Betrayed: West Papua's Struggle for IndependenceBy John MartinkusQuarterly Essay, issue 7Black IncOrder at <http://www.blackincbooks.com>
REVIEW BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
The latest issue of Quarterly Essay features an essay by
BY AHMAD NIMER
RAMALLAH
Israel's siege of Yasser Arafat's presidential compound has brought the
Palestinian plight back into world headlines alongside the impending US-led
invasion of Iraq.
While the mainstream media has largely
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE By September 30, 471 Socialist Alliance members had returned
letters to the Victorian electoral commission confiming their membership.
The commission must receive a further 29 positive responses by October
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Commendation
As a former United States Marine, Korean War era, I want to commend you on your stand against Bush's war. It is plain that he wants to rush into war before the November congressional elections so as to keep voters' minds off our many
BY ROHAN PEARCE
MELBOURNE "We want to draw the link between war and corporate globalisation, and win people to the perspective that a movement against neo-liberalism and imperialism in a time of war needs to become an anti-war movement", Kylie
BY JAMES BALOWSKI
On September
25, two leaders of the Acehnese civil rights movement Muhammad Nasir
Azis and Kautsar bin Muhammad Yus who were abducted on September 22 by
the Indonesian military (TNI) in the northern Acehnese city of
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