BY PAUL OBOOHOV
CANBERRA — The October 20 elections in the Australian Capital Territory are being contested by far more than the usual major party candidates. Nurses angry about the meltdown in health, outer suburbanites disgruntled with service
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BY FAROOQ TARIQ
LAHORE — Since the bombing of neighbouring Afghanistan began, thousands of Pakistani religious elements, including young students, have taken to the streets all over Pakistan — and have been met by police violence, tear gas,
BY ALISON DELLIT
As gut-wrenching as it will be, on November 10 either Prime "Menzies" John Howard or Labor's Kim "Bomber" Beazley will be prime minister and one of Australia's corporate political parties will control the federal government.
Trade union opponents of the US "war on terrorism" have had success garnering support within the labour movement. Here is a model motion Green Left Weekly readers should move in their union:
The [name of union] shares the horror of people around
BY NICOLE COLSON
CHICAGO — "The only way they're going to hear us is in the streets. No to war! Yes to peace!" That was the message that Lucas Benitez had for the crowd of Chicago protesters who gathered just hours after George Bush began raining
BY LINDA WALDRON
How does a working-class hero reconcile conservative ideas with a revolutionary reputation? After participating in a Melbourne press conference with Billy Bragg, I am convinced it is an amusing and confusing exercise in
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Howard Zinn on WarBy Howard ZinnSeven Stories Press, 2001206 pages, $34.95 (pb)
With every militarist hothead in press and parliament lashing themselves into a frenzy over the war they have just started against Afghanistan,
BY NORM DIXON
The day after the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of state in the Nixon administration, demanded that the US government "destroy the network" of whoever committed the
BY SARAH STEPHEN & DANIEL MOYA
Bashir Shamkhi's wife and three children were on the boat intercepted by the HMAS Adelaide on October 7. He knows exactly the desperation and fear which led some to jump overboard when confronted by the warship and
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 JIM GREEN
The terrorist attack in the United States on September 11 has led to renewed calls for the Australian government to cancel its plan to build a 20-megawatt nuclear research reactor in the southern Sydney suburb of Lucas Heights. But the
BY NORM DIXON
On October 7, US President George Bush announced that the shooting war component of the US military's "Operation Enduring Freedom" was underway. But perhaps a more apt title for the US war on Afghanistan would be Operation Enduring
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