Across the country, Australians have condemned the government's support for the slaughter in Fallujah. Full statements from groups and individuals are available on GLW's Fallujah web page at ...
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Michael Shaik Yasser Arafat, the guerrilla-turned-statesman, granted the Nobel Peace Prize before being condemned by the Israeli and US governments as a terrorist and obstacle to peace, died of a blood disease in a Paris hospital on November 11,
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Across the globe, media is debating why United States voters seem to have become more conservative. In this article abridged from the US Socialist Worker <http://www.socialistworker.org>, Lance Selfa comes to different conclusions. Hardly
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Kim Bullimore, Ramallah Amid chanting, gunfire, clapping and weeping, Yasser Arafat was welcomed home to his final resting place by more than 200,000 Palestinians on November 12. Tens of thousands wearing the familiar checked kaffir and carrying
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Max Lane, Sydney Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific (ASAP) is deeply concerned at the news that 38-year-old Indonesian human rights campaigner Munir, who died in September aboard a flight to Amsterdam, was murdered, according to an
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James Balowski, Jakarta The new government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono faces a staggering array of problems — rampant corruption, continuing human rights abuses by the military, massive unemployment, crumbling infrastructure, and a
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Rohan Pearce Many have spent their time since the November 2 US presidential election bemoaning the "stupidity" of US people for "re"-electing President George Bush, instead of voting for John Kerry, the alternative pro-war candidate favoured by
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Green Left Weekly offers our condolences to the Palestinian people for the loss of a fighter for freedom. A full obituary for Yasser Arafat will appear in the next Green Left Weekly.From Green Left Weekly, November 17, 2004. Visit the Green Left
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Eva Cheng The illegal Korean Government Employees Union (KGEU) plans to press ahead with a general strike on November 15 despite having the strike ballot among its 140,000 members seriously disrupted by police. The KGEU had planned a general
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Alex Miller Between November 4, when they were moved to central Iraq, and November 9, four soldiers from the Scottish Black Watch regiment were killed. On November 8, the Reuters news agency reported a British Ministry of Defence spokesman as
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Jorge Jorquera An alliance of the left, principally made up of the Communist Party of Chile and the Humanist Party, the main Green party in Chile, managed 9.14% of the vote in the October 31 municipal elections. This is the highest left vote since
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Alex Miller There have been renewed calls for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq after it was announced that 850 personnel from the Scottish Black Watch regiment are to be moved from the relative security of Basra in southern Iraq to Hilla,