BY DOUG LORIMER
While US government officials, from President George Bush down, have publicly denied that the US-led invasion of Iraq has anything to do with seizing control of Iraq's oil vast reserves, the orders given to the invading US troops
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Protesters say 'no' to US submarine
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
FREMANTLE — On April 19, activists gathered at the entrance to Stirling Naval Base on Garden Island, near Rockingham, to protest the presence of the US submarine Key West.
USS Key West was
BY
EMMA MURPHY
BAXTER — After months of planning, on April 18-20 up to 800 people
from across Australia converged on the Baxter detention centre outside
Port Augusta, to protest against the mandatory detention of asylum seekers,
and show
BY JIM MCILROY
Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) have voted by 61% to 39% in favour of a resolution from the union's Centrelink Section Council to endorse a new enterprise bargaining agreement, which will now be put to an
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Jewish
Dawn Cohen (Write On, GLW #534) equates anti-Zionism with being anti-Jewish, and thus denies the anti-war movement the right to attack Israel's role in the US-led invasion of Iraq.
"It is important to criticise the
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The following letter, initiated by non-affiliated Socialist Alliance members John van der Velden and Michael Morphett, was first circulated in late March in the run-up to the alliance second national conference, to be held on May 10-11. So far it has
BY AMY PARISH
On April 11, the University of Wollongong's council appointed George Maltby as chairperson of the Illawarra Technology Corporation (ITC), the corporate arm of the UOW.
Maltby was already chairperson of Thales International Pacific
BY BILL
MASON
BRISBANE — At meeting of 50 people at the Paddington Workers Club
on April 10, Humphrey McQueen — Australia's most eminent left-wing historian
— spoke on the theme of the “War on Work”, outlining the links between
the war
REVIEW BY BRIAN JONES
The PianistDirected by Roman PolanskiWritten by Ronald Harwood and Wladyslaw SzpilmanWith Adrien Brody and Thomas Kretschmann
In 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played the last live music heard on Polish radio before the Nazi
BY
NORM DIXON
The parents of a British solidarity activist shot in the head by
Israeli occupation forces on April 11 have accused the Israeli government
of “deliberate recklessness”. The attack, the third on foreign supporters
of the
BY
PATRICK BOND
The rift between the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the
Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) over privatisation has
deepened substantially since January, when Pretoria launched the full sale
of the
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