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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
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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
[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 BELINDA SELKE
WOLLONGONG The Greens have wrested the federal seat of Cunningham from the ALP, following an historic vote in Saturday's by-election. Greens candidate Michael Organ won roughly 23% of the primary vote, while the ALP's Sharon
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
BY TAFADZWA CHOTO
HARARE More than 600 teachers have been fired for striking for better pay, it was reported on October 15. The state-controlled Herald newspaper reported that 627 members of the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ)
BY SARAH STEPHEN
On February 4, 1998, doctors Victor Chan and Ho Peng Lee from the Nanyara abortion clinic were charged under Western Australia's criminal code with performing an abortion, and faced up to 14 years' jail.
The shock move by WA
BY SIMON BUTLER
[The following is an abridged version of a talk presented at a panel discussion on the Socialist Alliance at the 31st national conference of the socialist youth organisation Resistance, held in Melbourne, September 27-30. Simon
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 BRONWYN JENNINGS
GEELONG Successive Australian governments had shameful policies
towards refugees and now the Howard government is going to create more
by throwing its support behind George Bush's war on Iraq, Brigitte Ellery,
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BY ROBERT FISK
LONDON Each day now, someone says something even more incredible even more unimaginable about President George Bush's obsession with war.
On October 7, Bush himself told an audience in Cincinnati about "nuclear
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