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Palestine forum BRISBANE — "For a day, the Palestinians felt that the whole world had not forgotten them", Eric Storlie, a peace activist recently returned from the Israeli-occupied West Bank, told a forum and video night at the Resistance
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
GLASGOW — An opinion poll, commissioned by the Glasgow Herald has revealed that support for the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) is running at 9%. Support for the party has continued to grow steadily since scoring 2% of the vote in the 1999 election
BY JIM McILROY BRISBANE — Trade unions need to more actively support refugees' rights and expose their members to the truth about the plight of asylum seekers and the evils of Australia's refugee detention centres. This was the theme of a
BY EVA CHENG The month-long, four-phase election in the Indian-held section of Kashmir (IHK) was completed on October 8. The result ended the National Conference (NC) party's half-century near monopoly of political power in the IHK.
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
BY SARAH STEPHEN Four years ago, Colombian dissident Alvaro Morales fled to Argentina and then to Australia to escape death threats from Colombian government-backed paramilitaries. In May, following the Refu gee Review Tribunal's (RRT) rejection of
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT On September 9, five suspected illegal-immigrant workers at the De Lorenzo ceramics factory in Sydney's west were detained following a raid by immigration department officials. The NSW branch of the construction & general division