BY JOEL BEININ
In the early stages of the campaign for Israel's January 28 Knesset (parliamentary) elections, there were no armed attacks by Palestinians on Israelis. During the same six weeks, Israeli forces shot dead some 75 Palestinians in the
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Hundreds of thousands of people in the United States mobilised on January
18 to oppose a US-led war on Iraq. A crowd estimated at between 100,000
and 200,000 rallied and marched in Washington. They listened to the radical
British band
BY PAUL OBOOHOV
CANBERRA The corporate media on January 14 and 15 denounced new
flexible leave conditions contained in the latest industrial agreement
for employees of the federal Department of Education, Science and Training
(DEST).
BY STUART MUNCKTON
"The strike that once left most commercial areas of the city dark and abandoned — at an economic cost of more than $50 million a day — is now a collage of contrasts: abandoned shopping malls and bustling street markets ...
Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil FireBy Jack DoyleEnvironmental Health Fund, BostonAvailable for free download at <http://www.shellfacts.com>Hard copies can be ordered from Gary Cohen, Environmental Health Fund, 41
Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit
of Labor's Last Century
by Howard Zinn, Dana Frank, Robin DG Kelley
Beacon Press, 2001
174 pages, $34.50 (pb)
Three Strikes: Labor's Heartland Losses and What They Mean
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — On the evening of January 15, senior Indonesian cabinet ministers announced the postponement of a proposed 22% increase in telephone charges and the postponement and review of proposed increases to electricity and petrol
Old McBush, IEAE Oh!
"And then the North Koreans made a decision ... to ignore international ... agreements that they had reached, and start building potential nuclear weapons, enriching uranium. And now they are ... in the process of kicking out
BY BRONWYN JENNINGS
GEELONG — One hundred people attended a January 18 "picnic for peace" on the Geelong waterfront, initiated by the Geelong Greens.
Federal ALP member for Geelong, Gavin O'Connor spoke out against a war on Iraq outlining the
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
LAUNCESTON — The refugees' rights movement has witnessed a painful partial victory. On January 14, Fatima Sarwari and her children — seven-year-old Asima, five-year-old Zahoor and the Australian-born twins, almost two years'
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