In a revelation that "raises questions about whether the [weapons of mass destruction] stockpiles attributed to Iraq still exist", Newsweek's March 3 issue reported that the Iraqi weapons chief who defected from the regime in 1995 told UN inspectors
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TAMARA PEARSON
HARARE — At 8am, people here wait in long queues for the shops and
banks to open. Milk is scarce, and salt and oil can only be obtained at
ridiculous prices on the black market. Cars form 1-kilometre-long queues
for
Sect outlook
In her discussion article in GLW #526, presenting the Freedom Socialist Party's view of the future of the Socialist Alliance, Alison Thorne argues that the SA cannot become a vehicle for regroupment of the socialist left into a united,
BY KATE STOCKDALE
DARWIN — Local community organisations, politicians and activists — meeting regularly as the Refugee Action Network (RAN) — are campaigning to allow all 1800 East Timorese asylum seekers to stay in Australia.
A public
Already this year,
dozens of groups have been formed on high schools, organising students
to protest against war on Iraq and the accompanying slaughter of the Iraqi
people. The socialist youth organisation Resistance has put together some
BY DEBRA PAYNE
LONDON — Many people on the Februray 15 London anti-war march hadn't been on a march before. But I had and let me tell you it was terrific.
I was on one of 25 buses that left Nottingham for London, along with 300 buses from
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
SYDNEY — Sixty unionists attended a meeting organised by the NSW
Labor Council on February 26 to discuss the impending war on Iraq and the
response of the unions.
ALP foreign affairs spokesperson Kevin Rudd described the
BY EVA CHENG
Even though it was only a few years after the 1945 US nuclear attack on Japan, between 1950 and 1953, China's young Communist government, technologically miles behind the US, courageously fought alongside North Korea to repel US
BY DOUG LORIMER
On the weekend of March 1-2, two military transport ships carrying equipment, including 300 helicopters, for the 17,000 troops of the US army's 101st Airborne Division departed Florida on a three-week voyage to the Persian Gulf.
BY NICK SOUDAKOFF
The government of the Philippines' agenda of crushing the national liberation movement in Mindanao, with the active help of the US military, has been dramatically exposed. But it didn't come from a government leak; the political
BY TIM STEWART
BRISBANE — When the leaders of the trade union movement in Queensland proclaimed to the 100,000 anti-war protesters who rallied on February 16 that they would give the strongest possible support to the anti-war movement, what
BY LINDSAY ROWAN
"The revolution will not go better with Coke. The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath. The revolution will put you in the driver's seat. The revolution will not be televised" — Gil Scott Heron.
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