Rohan Pearce
Outside of Moqtada al Sadr, most clerics in the higher reaches of the Shiite hierarchy — such as Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani and the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq — have had ambivalent attitudes towards the
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Kylie Moon& Margaret Gleeson, Sydney
Despite the big increase in the Greens votes in the Sydney inner-west municipalities of Marrickville, Leichhardt or Ashfield at the March 27 NSW local government elections, no Greens councillors were elected as
CANBERRA — A statue of Prime Minister John Howard titled 'If the boots don't fit', helped set the scene for one of the most radical national folk festivals in years, over the Easter weekend.
The statue, by Melbourne sculptor Greg Taylor, was
Socialist Alliance members took to the streets in the northern working-class suburbs of Hobart on April 17 to promote Socialist Alliance legislative council candidate for the seat of Elwick, Kamala Emanuel.
Eight cars displaying Socialist
Jon Lamb
The recently formed Movement Against the Occupation of the Timor Sea (MKOT) staged a series of peaceful demonstrations in Dili on April 14-16, demanding an end to the theft of East Timor's oil and gas resources.
Some 500 protesters
SYDNEY - On March 16, 250 people attended an emergency rally initiated by the Stop the War Coalition (STWC) in response to the aerial bombardment and killings in Falluja, Iraq.
Protesters marched to the US consulate, demanding "Iraq for the
Ali Abunimah
The April 14 meeting between US President George Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Washington sent Palestinian leaders into a flying panic. But their response reeks of desperation and self-interest rather than any real
Iraq war I
There can be no doubt that planet Earth would be a much safer place without the likes of George W. Bush. Here we are a year into the chaos of Iraq with thousands of Iraqis either dead or maimed; 600 dead US soldiers; a country bordering
Chris Atkinson, Melbourne
"We support the mounting campaign of the Iraqi people to rid their country of foreign military occupation", said Adelaide Resistance activist Amy McDonell in the opening report of Resistance's national conference on April
Doug Lorimer
For the first time, the regime in Washington has been forced to directly confront the comparison between its 1960s and 1970s Vietnam War and its current war in Iraq.
In an April 7 congressional debate, Joseph Biden, a senior
Eva Cheng
On April 11, more than 20,000 people marched to China's central government liaison office in Hong Kong. They were protesting Beijing's backtrack from a promise, made before the 1997 handover of Hong Kong's sovereignty to China, that the
Jenny Long, Sydney
After weeks of softening up for a promised horrific cut in public spending in NSW, the minibudget announced by Treasurer Michael Egan on April 6 was promoted by him as a "tough but fair" response to the Labor state government's
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