BY KAMAL FADEL
The pictures beamed across the world told one story: hundreds of smiling, happy people in the Western Sahara welcome the king of Morocco into their homeland. But the reality is very different.
The Saharawis were not happy about the
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A Dirty Little WarBy John MartinkusForward by Xanana GusmaoRandom House428 pages, $24.95
Just over two years since the heroic East Timorese people voted for independence and so many questions remain unanswered and so many problems unresolved. Like
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
The Socialist Alliance won 1182 votes or 1.46% in the ACT seat of Fraser, with 76% of the votes counted on November 10. When the count finishes we will probably get around 1400 votes. This is a modest but decent result.
The
The Socialist Alliance vote
Perhaps you need some help with the calculations? If the Socialist Alliance received about 1% in the 15 seats in which it stood, that works out at 0.1% of the total House of Representatives vote. The vote for the Senate
BY PHIL HEARSE
LONDON — More than 50,000 people participated in a marched through this city's streets on November 18 to protest the war in Afghanistan.
Organised by the Stop the War coalition, the march was notable both for the much-increased
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
PERTH — "When [Richard] Court and [Graham] Kierath were in power we had security guards and thugs on the wharves, now [Geoff] Gallop and the ALP are in and we have the same thing happening on construction sites. Is this what we
BY NICK FREDMAN
CONDONG — "Standin' on the picket line, cross the road from the mill/The war ain't over till the fat man pays the bill", local singer Steve MacDonald sang to cheering sugar mill workers and supporters on November 18. Pickets have
BY LEE SUSTAR
CHICAGO — The top US military brass, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wanted a war — but they didn't have popular support for military action. Their solution? Stage an attack on an American military base, followed by a series of
BY MELANIE COUTMAN
NEWCASTLE — Posters have started to appear around the University of Newcastle advertising the next Critical Mass. But rather than promote the action as what it is, a bike ride protest against car dependence, the posters imply
SYDNEY - One-hundred and eighty people packed into Casa DÂ’Italia
in Leichhardt on November 24 to celebrate 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly and
raise funds to support it. Enjoying the delicate flavours of Middle Eastern
food, attendees were entertained
BY JODY BETZIEN
MELBOURNE — More than 500 workers from the five western suburbs sites of carpet maker Feltex Industries have ended their industrial action, after the company was forced to withdraw legal action against workers and union
BY NORM DIXON
The speed with which the forces allied to the Northern Alliance (NA) took control of northern and western Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban's retreat from Kabul on November 12 left Washington flat-footed. The US is now scrambling
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