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)
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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 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 JOHN PILGER
LONDON — Edward Said once asked who, if not the writer, will "defeat the imposed silence and normalised quiet of power". Ghada Karmi is such a writer. Her book In Search of Fatima: a Palestinian story, to be published this month
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,
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
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