BY EVA CHENG
Despite rampant vote rigging, Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf failed to achieve a majority in the country's National Assembly (lower house) election on October 10. The election just managed to beat the three-year deadline
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BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY On October 14, a meeting of the Palm Sunday Committee agreed to establish a new coalition of Sydney anti-war groups to organise a "walk against the war" on November 30 around the slogans "No war on Iraq! No Australian
BY ROBERTO JORQUERA
SYDNEY The 35th anniversary of the death of Ernesto Che Guevara was marked with a seminar, entitled "Latin America's struggle for justice". More than 100 people participated.
The gathering was initiated by Committees in
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Hans Post's One Man in his Time is an amazing and inspiring story. It's a historically significant autobiography
BY ROHAN PEARCE
Although most leaders of the Arab countries claim to support for the Palestinian national liberation struggle, a recent report by the 22-member Arab League indicates that this commitment is primarily verbal.
The October 15 Jordan
BY NORM DIXON
The streets of El Salvador's capital San Salvador were flooded as more than 50,000 people marched on October 16 in a resounding rejection of the privatisation of health care.
Doctors, nurses, medical students and health workers were
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"Iraq has unique characteristics that distinguish it." US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, October 18, responding to a reporter's question: "If Iraq's a candidate for pre-emptive military action because it might be
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA As of October 18, the Indonesian police investigating the terrorist bombing of the Sari night club on October 12 which killed nearly 200 foreign tourists and Indonesian workers have not announced any clear
[The following statement was made by Ana Belen Monte to a US district court in Washington, DC, on October 16, before being sentenced to a 25-year prison term. She pleaded guilty in March to having spied for Cuba from the time she started work at the
BY ROHAN PEARCE
While the leaders of the top imperialist countries argue over attacking Iraq, Israel's war on the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories continues.
A report by the Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, covering events
BY MAURICE FARRELL
SYDNEY Reporting on its 2002 readership survey, the October 10
Sydney Star Observer stated that the gay and lesbian market remains
buoyant, despite the difficulties faced this year by peak event-based community
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