More than 40,000 people marched in London on October 13 against the US-British military attacks on Afghanistan. At the same time, 5000 people protested against the war in Glasgow. The London anti-war protest, which marched from Hyde Park to Trafalgar
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Opposition to the United States' war on Afghanistan should be a major focus in upcoming Reclaim the Night marches around the country.
Feminists played a key role in the anti-Vietnam war movement in the 1960s, the movement against the Gulf war in
BY SEAN HEALY
US firm Kerr McGee and French oil group TotalFinaElf have won lucrative concessions from the Moroccan government, granting them permission to explore potentially rich oilfields off the coast of occupied Western Sahara.
During an
BY PATRICK CRAVEN& PHILEMON LUKHELE
JOHANNESBURG — Mario Masuku, president of Swaziland's opposition People's United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO), was arrested on October 4 and charged with failing to report to the police station as required
BY NICOLE COLSON
CHICAGO — "I don't know of any American that hasn't been inspired with the understanding of the willingness of law enforcement to do whatever is necessary to secure the safety of American citizens." That's what Attorney General
Unbelievable
"I'm amazed that ... people would hate us. Like most Americans, I just can't believe it because I know how good we are." — US President George Bush on the hostility expressed in the Middle East to his war on Afghanistan.
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Walking time bombs
"The great secret, the deeply buried mystery of the apparent apathy to crime and to proposals for better controlling crime, lies in the persistent, intrusive wish for vengeance." — Karl Menninger, MD.
Administratively
BY SARAH CLEARY
HOBART — Anti-war fever hit the University of Tasmania on October 11 as more than 200 students attended a lunch-time rally organised by the Network Opposing War and Racism (NOWAR) student group.
Shua Garfield, a member of the
BY SEAN HEALY
On September 27, Guy Verhofstadt, the Belgian prime minister and European Union (EU) president, wrote an open letter to what he calls the "anti-globalisation movement", in which he questioned "contradictions" in its arguments, claimed
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — The cloud hanging over abortion services in Tasmania since the closure of the state's only free-standing clinic in March has darkened.
On October 12, abortion service provider Marie Stopes International confirmed it
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