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,
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BY DOUG LORIMER
HONG KONG Seventy pro-democracy protesters staged a rally outside
in the Chater Garden Square next to the local Legislative Council building
on November 17, defying a police warning that the gathering was illegal
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 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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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
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
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 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 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
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
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