BY SUE BULL& GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE A public meeting against war on Iraq on September 26 attracted 250 people. The meeting was organised by the Victorian Peace Network.
Featured speakers at the meeting were Dr Scott Burchill from Deakin
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BY STEPHEN MARKS
MANAGUA Every pig has its Saturday is a popular Nicaraguan saying,
which refers to slaughter of fattened pigs on Saturdays for the weekend
cooking pot. For former right-wing president Arnoldo Aleman, Saturday seems
to
BY BEN COURTICE
On August 9, the US State Department designated the Communist Party
of the Philippines (CPP) and the New Peoples Army (NPA) as foreign terrorist
organizations and implored other governments to do the same.
On August
and ain't i a woman?: Scarlet classifieds
In late August, a classified ad was printed in the Florida-based Tallahassee Democrat. After listing the name of the author, along with her age, height, hair and eye colour, weight and race, it
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON Last October, in the early hours of the morning, a young expectant mother called Fatima Abed-Rabo awoke with intense labour pains. She and her husband Nasser set out in a friend's car for the hospital in Bethlehem, in
BY NICK FREDMAN
LISMORE — Chanting, "Education for people, not for profit", and "Whose streets? Our streets!", 300 university and high school students and university workers brushed aside police objections to spill onto the streets on September
Support for Palestine, opposition to war in Iraq
CANBERRA — More than 160 people pledged their support for a free Palestine at a dinner on September 27. Obada Kayali spoke of the injustice committed against his people and Avigail Abarbanel, a
BY ROHAN PEARCE
John Pilger has come under attack in Britain for his documentary
Palestine is Still the Issue, to be screened in Australia on SBS
TV at 8.30pm on October 8.
A September 20 article in the British Jewish Chronicle
BY JIM GREEN
"What was done at Maralinga was a cheap and nasty solution that wouldn't be adopted on white-fellas land." This comment was made by nuclear engineer and Maralinga whistle-blower Alan Parkinson on ABC radio on August 5.
Parkinson was
BY MELINDA SMITH
SYDNEY On September 24, the Port Jackson branch of the Socialist Alliance decided that its candidate for the March 2003 state election would be Paul Benedek.
The decision to contest the seat gives voters an alternative to
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