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BY NORM DIXON The fear of "bio-terrorism" in the United States is being cynically used to whip up war fever by politicians, the "attack Iraq" faction of the US administration and the mass media in the wake of the deaths of a Florida media worker on
BY ALEJANDRO RODRIGUEZ & ROQUE GRILLO On October 14, in the midst of the worst economic crisis in the country's history, Argentinians went to the polls to elect representatives to the Congress and Senate — and gave the government of
BY STUART MARTIN WOLLONGONG — On October 26, Naomi Arrowsmith cut up her ALP membership card and put a Socialist Alliance poster in support of Margaret Perrott's campaign for the seat of Throsby in her front yard. "This is what I think of Kim
BY KIM BULLIMORE SYDNEY — Banging on drums, blowing whistles and shouting anti-war and anti-violence chants, one thousand women participated in this year's Reclaim the Night march. The march began with a rally early in the evening of October 26
BY SARAH STEPHEN A 19-metre, rotting, leaky Indonesian fishing boat, with a capacity for 150 passengers, picked up more than 400 asylum seekers from Lampung on October 18 to make the journey to Christmas Island. A few hours out to sea, the boat
BY SHUA GARFIELD One prominent feature of Hobart's October 18 student walkout against Bush's war was the presence of two police officers with a video camera in a carpark 50 metres away from the anti-war rally. Despite the fact that it was an
BY SEAN HEALY In a rare win for environmental issues within the World Trade Organisation, the WTO's Appellate Body on October 22 upheld the legality of a United States ban on fishing practices which endanger the sea turtle. Malaysia had sought to
BY DANIEL HARRISON CANBERRA — "Change happens on the street, not in parliament", said James Vassilopoulos, Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of Fraser, during an interview for the local ABC drivetime radio program. "Choosing between Labor
For the November 10 federal election, the Socialist Alliance is directing preferences to the Greens ahead of Labor in the Senate. Some affiliates and members of the alliance disagreed with this. Here, Democratic Socialist Party member and Socialist
BY JESS MELVIN MELBOURNE — Federal education minister David Kemp was shocked to be interrupted mid-speech by screams of "You racist warmonger" during an October 23 forum of 1500 high school students in the Melbourne Town Hall. Kemp was
The speakers' lists at Reclaim the Night rallies across Australia were littered with election candidates from all political parties — in Adelaide it was Democrats Senator Natasha Stott Despoja and the Coalition's Trish Draper; in Sydney it was
Students form anti-war group CANBERRA — Following a student walkout on October 19, a dozen students from Narrabundah College have formed a new anti-war student group called Students Protesting Against Needless Killing, SPANK. The group