GLASGOW — An opinion poll, commissioned by the Glasgow Herald has revealed that support for the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) is running at 9%. Support for the party has continued to grow steadily since scoring 2% of the vote in the 1999 election
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HOBART Activists
had wondered if the terrorist attack in Bali would dampen the spirits of
the fourth in a series of weekly vigils against the war on Iraq that have
attracted up to 100 people. On October 18, the conclusion was that it hadn't.
BY ROHAN PEARCE
Although most leaders of the Arab countries claim to support for the Palestinian national liberation struggle, a recent report by the 22-member Arab League indicates that this commitment is primarily verbal.
The October 15 Jordan
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Four years ago, Colombian dissident Alvaro Morales fled to Argentina and then to Australia to escape death threats from Colombian government-backed paramilitaries. In May, following the Refu gee Review Tribunal's (RRT) rejection of
BY PETER ROBSON
Only one year
ago yesterday, we too lost our brothers and sisters to the violence and
injustice that stalks humanity right across the globe, refugees' rights
activist Kathy Newnam told people gathered in Newcastle's Civic
[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
East Timorese refugees
The GLW #511 editorial "Let Timorese stay!" is spot on. Many of us remember the almost sadistic trap the East Timorese refugees were deliberately caught in when they arrived after 1991. Before the Dili massacre there was no
BY STUART MUNCKTON
Political tensions in Venezuela continue to rise. On October 10, there was a mass mobilisation of middle- and upper-class opponents of President Hugo Chavez in the capital Caracas. This was followed three days later by an even
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
BY JAMES BALOWSKI
The brutal murder of nearly 200 people in Indonesia's tourist resort of Kuta on the island of Bali on October 12 occurred as the US is attempting to pressure Jakarta into supporting its War on Terror. As part of this effort,
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