Doug Lorimer
On November 8, the US military launched its long-anticipated second attempt to recapture the rebel Iraqi city of Fallujah, located 55 kilometres west of Baghdad.
The assault — conducted by some 10,000 US troops and 500 Iraqi troops
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Stuart Munckton
The Venezuelan regional elections held on October
31 registered another decisive victory for the Bolivarian
revolution, just two-and-a half months after the radical
pro-poor President Hugo Chavez won almost 60% of the vote in
Prime Minister John Howard declared on November 10 that "there will be no government-sponsored change at the federal level" to the current legal status of abortion. However, a dozen government MPs have indicated their support for, or intent to use,
Lachlan Malloch, Sydney
Indian writer and anti-globalisation campaigner Arundhati Roy exhorted a packed Seymour Centre audience on the evening of November 3 to bring home the resistance to the US-led occupation of Iraq by boycotting the products of
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BRISBANE — On November 8, 50 people attended a public display of photographs taken by Vivienne Porzsolt, a Sydney member of Jews Against the Occupation, during her three-week visit to Israel/Palestine last
Green Left Weekly offers our condolences to the Palestinian people for the loss of a fighter for freedom. A full obituary for Yasser Arafat will appear in the next Green Left Weekly.From Green Left Weekly, November 17, 2004.
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*Don't speak of rights, justice or oughtswe have castrated judges in neutered courts.The only things they guarantee are silence,lying politicians and ASIO's compliance.In nondescript brick veneered suburbsfearful, frightened half lives ledby the
I understand the Skilled Six Committee and a number of unions have decided to call a rally for November 25 around the call to free myself and highlight the injustice of my jailing. For this I thank everyone involved.
However, I would like to
Jorge Jorquera
An alliance of the left, principally made up of the Communist Party of Chile and the Humanist Party, the main Green party in Chile, managed 9.14% of the vote in the October 31 municipal elections. This is the highest left vote since
Michelle Brear, Sydney
The world's biggest teddy bear joined staff, students and kids at a 150-strong rally on November 11 at the University of New South Wales to demand that the university urgently act on the enormous childcare waiting lists at
A famous thinker once wrote that in modern industrial society, individuals are more than ever dependent upon society for their "food, clothing, a home, the tools of work, language, the forms of thought, and most of the content of thought". Far from
Damien Lawson
John Howard was killed in Iraq two months ago. A 26-year old staff sergeant in the marines, he died when his helicopter crashed in Al-Anbar province in August. The youngest of three brothers from Virginia, he joined the marines in
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