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David Irving: apologist for Nazism

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

SOUTH AFRICA: Activists pay tribute to 'fugitive' John Pape

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

Huge show of support for Timorese refugees

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

News Briefs

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,

Community lawyer challenges prison minister

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

Artists support anti-war rally

BY PIP HINMAN SYDNEY — In the United States, actor Susan Sarandon and other high-profile artists and performers are speaking out against the planned US-led war on Iraq. In Australia too, members of the arts and cultural communities are supporting

LEBANON: Israel threatens war over water

BY JEREMY BRADLEY The Middle East is in the grip of severe drought. Israel's farmers are so highly dependant on irrigation that they require more than half of the 1.55 billion cubic metres of water that is used annually within Israel's

TURKEY: Why 'Islamists' trounced the ruling parties

BY MICHAEL KARADJIS "Politics has never seen such a widespread liquidation operation", declared the Turkish daily Sabah following the crushing victory of the "Islamist" Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey's November 3 general election.

On the box

Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. Includes the Green Left news. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Phone 9565 5522. Visit

Ritter takes on the lies they tell about Iraq

REVIEW BY ELIZABETH SCHULTE War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to KnowWilliam Rivers Pitt interviews Scott RitterAllen and Unwin, 200278 pages, $9.95. A former marine and a member of the Republican Party who voted for George W Bush,

Police intimidation fails to prevent anti-war action

BY KIM BULLIMORE SYDNEY — Despite attempts by police to prevent it, an anti-war action in Bankstown's Old Town Plaza on November 16 attracted 80 people. Initiated by the Socialist Alliance and the Canterbury-Bankstown Anti-War Group, the

and ain't i a woman?: US attacks reproductive rights

US delegates dropped a bombshell at the Asian and Pacific Population Conference in late October. They announced that the US would withdraw its support for the"action plan" devised at the 1994 United Nations Population and Development Conference in