HOBART Activists
had wondered if the terrorist attack in Bali would dampen the spirits of
the fourth in a series of weekly vigils against the war on Iraq that have
attracted up to 100 people. On October 18, the conclusion was that it hadn't.
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BY JAMES BALOWSKI
The brutal murder of nearly 200 people in Indonesia's tourist resort of Kuta on the island of Bali on October 12 occurred as the US is attempting to pressure Jakarta into supporting its War on Terror. As part of this effort,
The latest in a series of Socialist Alliance-initiated Sydney suburban rallies against war on Iraq took place in Newtown on October 18. The rally was addressed by Socialist Alliance candidates for Marrickville (Sue Johnson) and Port Jackson (Paul
BY JOHN TULLY
John Jocka Burns died on October 11 at the age of 93. Although
he avoided the limelight, Jocka was an indefatigable working-class agitator
all of his adult life. He participated in many of the political struggles
of the
BY PETER ROBSON
Only one year
ago yesterday, we too lost our brothers and sisters to the violence and
injustice that stalks humanity right across the globe, refugees' rights
activist Kathy Newnam told people gathered in Newcastle's Civic
BY NORM DIXON
A series of "leaks" to major US newspapers have shed light on what is emerging as Washington's preferred political scenario in a post-invasion Iraq: before or during the US attack, senior officers of Iraq's armed forces overthrow
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The October 2 Cleveland Jewish News reported that several members of Congress, deemed to be "not a friend of Israel" or "anti-Israel", will not be reelected to Congress in November.
They include Democrat party members Earl
BY PETER ROBSON
NEWCASTLE An angry crowd of staff and students confronted Newcastle University vice-chancellor Roger Holmes on October 16 as he attempted to justify plans to close the Huxley Library and replace it with an electronic
BY STUART MUNCKTON
Political tensions in Venezuela continue to rise. On October 10, there was a mass mobilisation of middle- and upper-class opponents of President Hugo Chavez in the capital Caracas. This was followed three days later by an even
BY IGGY KIM
The campaign to free Australian resident academic Lesley McCulloch
from detention in Indonesia has been boosted by the National Tertiary Education
Industry Union (NTEU).
The union's Tasmanian division donated $1000 to help
BY ALISON DELLIT
On October 13,
as the news of the mass murder in Bali spread across Australia, 45,000
people marched through Melbourne's streets in order to prevent the loss
of thousands more lives in a war on Iraq.
Innocent people
BY NORM DIXON
Amiri Baraka — a famous African-American poet and political activist who, as LeRoi Jones, wrote the classic book Blues People in the 1960s — is under attack for a poem he wrote about the 9/11 attacks, titled "Somebody Blew Up
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