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IRAQ: Fallujah battle galvanises hatred of US occupiers

Doug Lorimer "Fallujah will be their Stalingrad. The Euphrates will be a river of their blood. Now the resistance is spreading all over Iraq and everyone is coming to Fallujah to help us. It will not be conquered." These comments by Amar Abbas, a

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2 Kids make more sense than Vanstone MELBOURNE — David Glanz, Socialist Alliance candidate for the federal seat of Wills, has spoken out in defence of children at Brunswick East Primary School who wrote to the government to criticise its

Fighting HECS increases

Since the beginning of the year, student activists have been struggling to stop university administrations from increasing student fees. Stuart Munckton, national co-ordinator of Resistance and a member of the Socialist Alliance, takes up the debate

Our Common Cause: Unite to fight racism

Now that PM John Howard has announced the abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, his project of crushing every vestige of "special treatment" for Indigenous people is complete. Mark Latham stole his thunder, by

'No war' clean-up fund

Will and Dave are committed to repaying reasonable cleanup costs for the removal of their artwork on the Sydney Opera House. The current bill stands at $151,000, of which more than $40,000 has already been paid. All donations will be very

Justice for Palestine!

Nick Everett, Canberra More than 60 people rallied outside the Israeli embassy on May 1, including supporters of Australians for Justice and Peace in Palestine and a delegation of Palestine solidarity activists from Sydney. Anglican bishop of

IRAQ: Will US withdrawal lead to civil war?

Doug Lorimer If the US troops leave Iraq, "violence will fill the vacuum as groups struggle for political power, and we risk all-out civil war", John McCain, a leading Republican member of the US Senate armed services committee, declared in a April

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1 PSA says 'Put it to a vote!' ADELAIDE — The Public Service Association has called on the South Australian government to put its wage offer for public servants to a vote of employees, after negotiations failed to reach a conclusion. The PSA

Anti-war activist has no regrets

Will Saunders and Dave Burgess are serving nine months of periodic detention for painting the words "No war" on the sails of the Sydney Opera House. Green Left Weekly's Niko Leka and Kerry Vernon spoke to Burgess after his first two months of weekend

A plea from Iraqis on Nauru

On February 27 we had a meeting with a senior DIMIA [Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs] officer, and we [were] told that DIMIA will find [a solution to] our problem within two months. Now, the two months have

SCOTLAND: Thousands march against council tax

Alex Miller In a rally called by the Scottish Socialist Party, 2000 people marched against the council tax in Glasgow on April 24. The SSP is campaigning to have the current system of local taxation replaced by a Scottish Service Tax (SST), based

The Front, or, Email from Iraq

(for Etienne Patrice Kevin Mallard, who always cheered for ColonelMathieu and his shades, and, of course, for Liam) Deja vu all over again. Some asshole from Texas is sending 'Merican boysand girls to do what Asian boys and girls should never do.