BY KEVIN SUMMERS
Military triumphalism is all about: in letters to the editors, opinion pieces, commentaries and indeed in the smug countenances of numerous politicians. "The war is won", they proclaim. "Saddam is gone and the anti-war protesters
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BY ALISON DELLIT
At the 1998 constitutional convention, which debated whether or not Australia should become a republic, then-Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane Peter Hollingworth spoke in favour of the minimalist republic model that was subsequently
BY AHMAD NIMER
RAMALLAH — The public announcement of the US-backed "road map" a few days after the inauguration of Palestinian Prime Minister Abu Mazen's new cabinet has been met with vocal opposition from leading Palestinian political
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Craig Milner (Write On, GLW #536) refutes my argument that "Zionism means belief in an exclusively Jewish state" by quoting the Zionist Congress of 1897: "The aim of Zionism is to create for the Jewish people a home in Eretz-Israel
BY KAREN FLETCHER
The manipulation of immigration policy has been one of the key strategies used by the US rulers in their 44-year campaign to strangle Cuba's attempt to build socialism. Bolstered by its "victory" in Iraq, Washington is now
BY DOUG LORIMER
SYDNEY — On May 8, NSW Greens MP Lee Rhiannon criticised NSW Labor Premier Bob Carr for his insistence that the state's parliamentarians vote on age of consent laws according to their personal views, rather than their party's
BY SARAH STEPHEN
On April 25, Abu Quassey was deported from Indonesia to Egypt. Quassey had admitted his responsibility for helping to organise the fatal SIEV-X voyage, in which 353 asylum seekers died on October 19, 2001, while trying to reach
SYDNEY — About 300 people demonstrated in Chifley Square on May 8 to protest the Coalition government's attacks on Medicare.
The speakers included Wollongong Greens MP Michael Organ, Con Costa from the Doctor's Reform Society and Arthur
Korea — the Unknown War: an Illustrated HistoryBy Jon Halliday and Bruce CumingsPenguin Books, 1990
REVIEWED BY CHRIS SLEE
The 1950-53 Korean War of was one of the bloodiest in history. Between 3 million and 4 million Koreans were killed, out
Women in the Philippines have launched a major campaign for reproductive rights in response to recent offensives against access to contraception and abortion.
These offensives were triggered by the United States reintroducing the "global gag" rule
BY SARAH STEPHEN
"We chose Australia as a country of justice and freedom", Iranian asylum seekers in Port Hedland detention centre wrote in an open letter to the Australian people on March 14. They were horrified, however, by what they found.
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Nina Simone: a powerful voice for black liberation
BY MONICA MOOREHEAD
The world is mourning the tragic loss of African-American vocalist and
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