BY PAULA ABOOD & ALISSAR GAZAL
"I've always maintained that [we women] have a more fair approach to the truth and to the integrity of other human beings, because we serve life and peace" — Hanan Ashrawi on ABC Radio, October 22, 2003.
"Ashrawi
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BY GARRY LEECH
Colombia's right-wing, pro-US president Alvaro Uribe suffered a double setback at the polls on October 25-26. On October 25, voters rejected most components of a 15-point referendum that Uribe said would give him the necessary tools
SYDNEY — Treasures of Palestine showcases a wide selection of traditional material ranging from costumes, jewellery and ceramics to mother-of-pearl inlay work, posters, photography and olive-wood sculptures. Through these objects, visitors to the
BY RAUL BASSI& PIP HINMAN
Brian Sketchley takes Green Left Weekly to task for arguing for a mass anti-war movement aimed at getting the US-led occupying troops out of Iraq. It's futile, he argues, because the ruling class never listens.
The
BY ALISON THORNE
Members First, a grouping within the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) that is working for a fighting union, has launched a campaign to win the right to use email for union organising, free from management interference or
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
BRISBANE — "As socialists, we ignore our own history at our peril", Jim McIlroy, author of a new pamphlet by Resistance Books, Australia's First Socialists, told a book launch sponsored by Green Left Weekly on October 29.
BY AUSTIN WHITTEN
SYDNEY — Anthony Billingsley, a former foreign affairs officer and Office of National Assessments analyst, abruptly cancelled a lecture at Macquarie University on October 23, the day before it was to be delivered.
The ONA, his
BY BRYAN SKETCHLEY
A number of recent articles in Green Left Weekly have carried a common thread of argument for what the anti-war movement needs to be doing now, its strategies and goals. That line of thought was succinctly encapsulated in the
Israel's "defence" ministry announced new plans on October 24 for the route of "apartheid wall" that would eventually cut off the Jordan River Valley from the West Bank, which would mean annexing the main food basket for Palestinians.
A senior
BY NORM DIXON
Noam Chomsky, the distinguished US political scientist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, has attended the 25th Assembly of the Latin American Social Science Council. Addressing the conference on October 29, also
BY ALAN MAASS
CHICAGO — The October 25 demonstrations marked the first national US mobilisation of the anti-war movement since the US-led invasion of Iraq. The demonstrations in Washington and San Francisco came after the systematic lies of US
BY DOUG LORIMER
Chants of "Hell no, we won't go, we won't fight for Texaco!" and "Hey Bush, we know you, your daddy was a liar, too!" echoed through the streets of downtown Washington on October 25 as around 100,000 people marched in the largest US
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