BY AHMAD NIMER
RAMALLAH — As the Palestinian people's intifada (uprising) enters its 27th month, the Israeli government has escalated it strategy of collective punishment. At the time of writing, all Palestinian cities in the West Bank, with the
520
BY
ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART Two floats in the November 30 Launceston Christmas parade
have sparked a string of letters in the Examiner, the town's daily
tabloid.
The Peace on Earth float was entered by a coalition of No War on Iraq,
BY KAREN FLETCHER
MELBOURNE — Although the big news of the November 30 Victorian election was the massive swing to Labor and the Greens' remarkable results (particularly in inner-city seats), the Socialist Alliance has been quietly celebrating
BY PAUL CLARKE
LONDON — Britain's firefighters are locked in a bitter battle over pay and conditions with British Prime Minister Tony Blair's right-wing New Labour government. The struggle has been dubbed by some commentators "Blair's miners'
BY CLAYTON McDONALD
BRISBANE — "Separately, our voices are weak, together we are strong and can show that the majority of Australians are people of peace", Reverend David Pitman of the Wesley Mission told the 500 people who gathered on December 2
BY CHRIS LATHAM
PERTH - On December 8, more than 1000 people rallied in Perth to oppose the impending war in Iraq. Organised by the NOWAR Alliance, the protest demanded: no war on Iraq; no Australian support for war; an end to sanctions on Iraq;
HARRY QUICK, ALP federal MP for Franklin in Tasmania and deputy opposition whip, spoke to Green Left Weekly's JAMES VASSILOPOULOS about the impending war against Iraq.
Why do you oppose the planned war on Iraq?
I've always been a pacifist. My
BY JON LAND
Dili, the capital of East Timor, was hit by a wave of protests and riots on December 3-4. The unrest culminated in at least two deaths and scores of injured, when police fired tear gas and live ammunition to disperse angry crowds of
BY MARG PERROT
WOLLONGONG — The life of prominent union leader and left political activist Peggy Errey was commemorated by 150 people at her funeral in Wollongong on December 5.
Peggy Errey was born in Ireland in 1914 to a staunchly republican
BY SARAH STEPHEN
On November 20, arch-reactionary Christian fundamentalist NSW MP Fred Nile seized the opportunity presented by the federal government's vague warnings of terrorist threats to raise "concerns" that the Muslim chador (religious
BY DAVEY GARLAND
When questions were asked in the British parliament a year ago about whether depleted uranium (DU) weapons had been used in the military strikes on Afghanistan, "It is not being used at present" was defence minister Geoff Hoon's
BY JOHN PILGER
Today, I am reminded of all the other great demonstrations that have happened around the world. At the end of September, I addressed 400,000 people in the centre of London. In Washington, there have been something like 200
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