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Alex Miller A British Royal Air Force officer is facing a court martial after refusing to return to Iraq on the grounds that the war is illegal. The October 17 British Guardian reported that Flight-Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith is facing four
Dave Airhart, an anti-war activist and an Iraq war veteran, is being threatened with expulsion from Kent State University for his anti-war activities. On October 19, the Kent State Anti-War Committee disrupted US Army recruiters as they attempted to
Kerry Vernon, Maitland Two-hundred women, their relatives and supporters marched along Maitland's main street on the night of October 28 in the first Reclaim the Night event to be held in this city of 54,000 residents. Led by 83-year-old feminist
Graham Matthews Unemployed workers will face no choice but to accept any job offer, regardless of its lack of penalty rates, public holidays or breaks, under the Howard government's proposed changes to industrial relations laws. Failing to take
Ian Rintoul "Two boys betrayed", the October 7 Australian editorial proclaimed, referring to Alamdar and Montazar Bakhtiyari, the two eldest sons of Australia's most high-profile asylum seeker family. The Australian editorial was railing against
Simon Cunich, Sydney Students have claimed all year that the Howard government's proposed "voluntary student unionism" (VSU) legislation is really aimed, not at giving freedom of choice as the government claims, but at silencing dissent against its
Andrew Hall, Canberra Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) working in Centrelink are set to stop work nationally for several hours on November 15 to attend the ACTU's national SkyChannel broadcast and protest rallies against the
Graham Matthews, Sydney An October 26 public forum organised by members of the Labor Party on the topic of whether the ALP could win the next federal election (in 2007) drew 200 people, many of whom were upset with Labor's inability to distinguish
BRISBANE — Ambulance officers around Queensland stopped work on October 26 to demand improvements in staffing and working conditions, in the first statewide strike in history. Around 500 paramedics and their families demonstrated outside the Kedron
Doug Lorimer At an October 16 media conference where Prime Minister John Howard announced the Australian government's intention to double the number of people directly employed by its ASIO secret police agency by 2010, he dismissed concerns that
Marce Cameron On November 8, Cuba will once again present a resolution to the UN General Assembly calling for an end to the US economic blockade of the island nation. Last year, the assembly voted by 179 votes in favour, four against (the US,
On October 26, Venezuelan ambassador Fermin Toro Jimenez told the UN Security Council that his country has begun processing an extradition request for Reverend Pat Robertson from the US. Robertson has publicly called for the assassination of