More than 40,000 people marched in London on October 13 against the US-British military attacks on Afghanistan. At the same time, 5000 people protested against the war in Glasgow. The London anti-war protest, which marched from Hyde Park to Trafalgar
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BY RENFREY CLARKE
In a cave in a remote valley of the Hindu Kush, a bearded man is holed up. He is the person responsible, more than any other, for the worst outrages of modern terrorism. He must be located, captured, killed.
How to find him? He
BY ROHAN PEARCE
SYDNEY — "The attacks on Afghanistan are already costing lives. There are lots of people who can see the hypocrisy of George Bush calling for justice for the victims of the September 11 attacks and then bombing Afghanistan and
BY MIKE BYRNE
BRISBANE — While originally billed as a "counter-conference" to the planned Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, a teach-in attended by over 150 activists expanded its field of vision and discussed the US war in the Middle East
Unbelievable
"I'm amazed that ... people would hate us. Like most Americans, I just can't believe it because I know how good we are." — US President George Bush on the hostility expressed in the Middle East to his war on Afghanistan.
We only
BY PATRICK CRAVEN& PHILEMON LUKHELE
JOHANNESBURG — Mario Masuku, president of Swaziland's opposition People's United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO), was arrested on October 4 and charged with failing to report to the police station as required
@box text intr = In a speech to the British Labour Party's annual conference on October 2, billed as the formal announcement of war with Afghanistan, Tony Blair outlined the sort of world the imperialist powers' claim they want to construct out of
BY ROB INDER-SMITH
DARWIN — Socialist Alliance senate candidate Gary Meyerhoff dropped a bombshell on live television on October 4 when he suggested that Northern Territory's chief minister Clare Martin had "just lied to us on national TV" about
Upcoming actions
Adelaide: Sunday November 4, 2pm. Victoria Square.
Brisbane: Saturday October 20, 11am. Defence Force Recruiting Centre, 288 Edward Street, City.
Canberra: Friday October 19, 5.30pm. Garema Place, Civic.
Geelong: Saturday
BY SEAN HEALY
On September 27, Guy Verhofstadt, the Belgian prime minister and European Union (EU) president, wrote an open letter to what he calls the "anti-globalisation movement", in which he questioned "contradictions" in its arguments, claimed
Walking time bombs
"The great secret, the deeply buried mystery of the apparent apathy to crime and to proposals for better controlling crime, lies in the persistent, intrusive wish for vengeance." — Karl Menninger, MD.
Administratively
BY CHRIS SLEE& SUE BOLTON
MELBOURNE — Between 8000-10,000 building workers marched through central Melbourne and converged on the Collins Street headquarters of the federal royal commission into the building industry on October 10, the day of the
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