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INDONESIA: Bali attack intensifies political crisis

BY MAX LANE JAKARTA — As of October 18, the Indonesian police investigating the terrorist bombing of the Sari night club on October 12 — which killed nearly 200 foreign tourists and Indonesian workers — have not announced any clear

Loose cannons

Like lots of oil "Iraq has unique characteristics that distinguish it." — US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, October 18, responding to a reporter's question: "If Iraq's a candidate for pre-emptive military action because it might be

UNITED STATES: 'I sought to counter a grave injustice'

[The following statement was made by Ana Belen Monte to a US district court in Washington, DC, on October 16, before being sentenced to a 25-year prison term. She pleaded guilty in March to having spied for Cuba from the time she started work at the

PALESTINE: Children bear brunt of Israel's war

BY ROHAN PEARCE While the leaders of the top imperialist countries argue over attacking Iraq, Israel's war on the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories continues. A report by the Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, covering events

Troubles for gay and lesbian events

BY MAURICE FARRELL SYDNEY — Reporting on its 2002 readership survey, the October 10 Sydney Star Observer stated that “the gay and lesbian market remains buoyant, despite the difficulties faced this year by peak event-based community

ZIMBABWE: Teachers fired for striking

BY TAFADZWA CHOTO HARARE — More than 600 teachers have been fired for striking for better pay, it was reported on October 15. The state-controlled Herald newspaper reported that 627 members of the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ)

On the box

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Abortion access improves in WA

BY SARAH STEPHEN On February 4, 1998, doctors Victor Chan and Ho Peng Lee from the Nanyara abortion clinic were charged under Western Australia's criminal code with performing an abortion, and faced up to 14 years' jail. The shock move by WA

BRITAIN: Israel's fear of the truth

BY JOHN PILGER LONDON — Edward Said once asked who, if not the writer, will "defeat the imposed silence and normalised quiet of power". Ghada Karmi is such a writer. Her book In Search of Fatima: a Palestinian story, to be published this month

Historic Cunningham vote turns 'Gong Green

BY BELINDA SELKE WOLLONGONG — The Greens have wrested the federal seat of Cunningham from the ALP, following an historic vote in Saturday's by-election. Greens candidate Michael Organ won roughly 23% of the primary vote, while the ALP's Sharon

Socialist candidate supports refugees' rights

BY BRONWYN JENNINGS GEELONG — “Successive Australian governments had shameful policies towards refugees and now the Howard government is going to create more by throwing its support behind George Bush's war on Iraq”, Brigitte Ellery,

News briefs

Palestine forum BRISBANE — "For a day, the Palestinians felt that the whole world had not forgotten them", Eric Storlie, a peace activist recently returned from the Israeli-occupied West Bank, told a forum and video night at the Resistance