Doug Lorimer
The US military is discussing plans to turn the Iraqi city of Fallujah into a giant concentration camp. Most of the city's 300,000 residents were driven out by a massive US bombing campaign in the week prior to an invasion by 10,000 US
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Sections of the international women's movement today call for gender equality and women's participation in Iraq's "reconstruction". Forums and conferences are organised calling for women's representation in the post-invasion administration and gender
Jola Jones
On December 2, immigration minister Amanda Vanstone handed down her decision on the future of the 41 Iraqi asylum seekers detained on Nauru. She announced that 27 Iraqis would be given refugee status and said this reflected the
Walk in My ShoesBy Alwyn EvansPenguin Books, 2004349 pages, $18.95
REVIEW BY ANNOLIES TRUMAN
At an October 2 launch of this novel hosted by the Hills No War Alliance, author Alwyn Evans recalled her shock a few years ago when a friend made a
Alex Miller
Since Tommy Sheridan resigned as national convenor of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) for personal reasons in early November, New Labour-supporting tabloid newspapers have been predicting the end of the SSP's remarkable political
Patrick Cockburn has been an invaluable source of information for anyone wanting to know what is going on in Iraq. As a correspondent for Britain's Independent newspaper, he has written regular reports from Iraq throughout the occupation. In
Anti-Privatisation Forum activist Matthews Ndlovu was convicted on December 5 of "malicious damage to property", and sentenced to a fine of 25,000 Rand (AU$6000) or two years' imprisonment. Ndlovu is a leader of the Phiri community resistance to
On December 8, the Indian parliament voted to rule out any possibility of sending troops to Iraq. Washington had petitioned the parliament to send troops around the time of the puppet election there in January. External affairs minister Natwar Singh,
Australian Manufacturing Workers Union food and confectionary division Victorian secretary Bronwyn Halfpenny spoke to Green Left Weekly's Sue Bolton about the changes that jailed unionist Craig Johnston brought to the Victorian AMWU branch after he
Peter Maybarduk, Caracas
It is nearly impossible to travel in Venezuela without hearing reference to the government's highly popular and controversial health-care initiative that invites Cuban doctors to treat, train and live with working-class
Dave Riley
Palm Island is 70 kilometres north-west of Townsville. The Indigenous settlement was established in 1918 after a cyclone blew away the Hull River reserve near Tully.
While it was one of the last settlements to be created under the
Kim Bullimore, West Bank
Israeli occupation forces detained over 40 Israeli peace activists and arrested four at the village of Budrus, west of Ramallah, on December 7. The activists were arrested as they took part in a non-violent solidarity
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