BY ALISON DELLIT
Even before "anti-terrorist" legislation, increasing powers to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, has been publicly released, attacks on civil liberties in Australia are increasing.
The legislation, first proposed
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BY AHMAD NIMER
RAMALLAH — Commentary in the capitalist mass media about the measures taken by Israel against the Palestinian population in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in the wake of the December 1-2 suicide bombings has been strikingly
BY MARIA VOUKELATOS
MELBOURNE - Anti-war student and community activists met at the University of Melbourne on December 2-3 to discuss the challenges facing the anti-war movement.
The conference, organised by the National Union of Students (NUS)
BY ADAM BAKER
BRISBANE — The US military machines, the oil companies which are central to the US's war aims in Central Asia and the Israeli government which brutalises the Palestinians all came under sustained fire from activists at an anti-war
BY STEPHEN O'BRIEN
NEWCASTLE — A memorial service for long-time activist and socialist Elfriede Burghardt was held here on November 27.
Burghardt was born in Germany in 1918 and grew up as part of an anti-fascist family living under the Nazis.
BY SEAN HEALY
US President George Bush junior always promised that his "war on terrorism" would be waged on many fronts, in every corner of the world. And he's delivered: because, just as the war in Afghanistan seems to be nearing an end, the war
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"[The federal government] wants to ensure diversity of opinion but not necessarily diversity of ownership." — Senator Richard Alston on why Kerry Packer should be allowed to own even more media outlets.
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BY NORM DIXON
Speculation is mounting over where Washington will select to be the next target in its bogus "war on terrorism". However, the question may have already been answered: it's Palestine.
In the wake of three suicide bombing attacks in
PERTH - On December 7, activists from the Resistance socialist youth organisation staged a "die in" outside the Defence Force Recruitment Centre to protest against the war in Afghanistan. The protesters later walked through the city malls carrying a
BY JONATHAN GADIR
In a ceremony at the Swedish parliament on December 7, the Right Livelihood Award, generally known as the alternative Nobel Peace Prize, was awarded to Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc, and personally to its tireless
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