BY SARAH STEPHEN
The ALP shut down its working party on refugee policy on November
12, after only two meetings. This is a substantial blow to Labor for Refugees,
which agreed to its members involvement in the working party in return
for a
518
BY PAUL OBOOHOV
CANBERRA — The Members First rank and file group in the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) is challenging the ALP-aligned Progressive Caucus in elections for department-based section and local region positions in the ACT,
Telling Lies About Hitler: the Holocaust, History and the David Irving TrialBy Richard EvansVerso, 2002326 pages, $37 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
If a self-styled "geographic revisionist" should ever step up to a witness box to sue the Royal
Episodes directed by Samira Makhmalbaf, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Sean
Penn, Denis Tanovic, Mira Nair, Shohei Imamura, Amos Gitai, Youssef Chahine,
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Idrissa Ouedrago
Now showing at the Nova and Cinema Europa,
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — "On November 30, a vote for the Socialist Alliance is the clearest possible vote against war and racism", said Arun Pradhan, Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of Melbourne.
Pradhan, who has been an
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BY KAREN FLETCHER
MELBOURNE — Community lawyer Amanda George, well-known for years of work against private prisons in Australia, is standing as an independent candidate in the Victorian election. She is opposing the Labor minister for police and
BY JEFF SHANTZ
TORONTO Greenpeace door
canvassers are used to pounding the pavements. Every evening, they walk
kilometres to spread the Greenpeace message of environmental care. However,
the organisations' canvass workers never expected
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN I'm here because I don't like injustice, and I don't like
being ashamed of my country, declared Jack, one of the 250 people who
attended a public meeting in support of the East Timorese asylum seekers
on
Anti-war forum discusses movement building
HOBART — A Socialist Alliance-initiated meeting on November 20 provided a forum for people to discuss the best way to oppose war on Iraq. Participants were addressed by federal Labor MP Harry Quick,
BY ROHAN PEARCE
On September 12, US President George Bush addressed the United Nations General Assembly to set out the US regime's case for a bloody war on Iraq. Bush declared that the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein since 1998 had
BY PATRICK BOND
JOHANNESBURG — On November 8, James Kilgore, the last fugitive member of the 1970s US terrorist group, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), was arrested in Cape Town. He was known in South Africa as John Pape, the respected left
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