BY VIV MILEY
More than 200 young socialist activists from across the country met in the Victorian sea-side town of Anglesea for the 30th annual Resistance conference on September 28-29. A central focus of the conference was how to build opposition
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REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary WollstonecraftBy Diane JacobsAbacus, 2001333 pages, $28 (pb)
A "hyena in petticoats", wrote London literary eminence Horace Walpole in 1795 in a fit of misogynist pique against Mary
US President George Bush would like us to believe he is about to liberate the Afghan people from the tyranny of the Taliban. He's promised US$320 million worth of humanitarian aid, some of which is to be air-dropped into Afghanistan — once the
BY SEAN HEALY
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Washington, DC, on September 29-30 weekend in opposition to President George Bush's plans to launch a war in the Middle East in retaliation for the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US.
Wollongong
Five hundred people turned up to the "world's biggest hug for peace" on October 1, Stuart Martin reports. A week before a rally for peace initiated by the Socialist Alliance attracted 150 people.
Called by peace activists, the Hug for
BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — "We are here today to say we will not support Bush and his allies in their frantic drive to retaliate. Revenge will not stop terrorism, war will not stop terrorism; war will only generate more horrendous terrorist acts",
BY ALISON DELLIT
In 1970, thousands of young people joined Edwin Starr in asking "War — What is it good for?". In 2001, Prime Minister John Howard has come up with an answer — winning elections.
Before September 11, Howard was facing down one
A ConversationBy David WilliamsonDirected by Sandra BatesEnsemble Theatre, SydneyUntil November 3
REVIEW BY BRENDAN DOYLE
The theme of violence against innocents, and the justice or impunity that follows, has never been more timely. The real
BY SARAH STEPHEN
MELBOURNE — October 3 was to be the first day of the three-day blockade of the Commonwealth Business Forum — the O3 blockade. But in the wake of Howard's cancellation of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, and with it
BY CAROL BERRY
WOLLONGONG — Stages 2-6 of the upmarket housing development at Sandon Point were approved in a decision by the NSW Land and Environment Court last week. The decision on the first stage of the development has yet to be handed down.
Encouraging racism
I'm writing in response to Ahmad Nimer's article in GLW #464 "Attacks on US leave Israel the winner".
I simply cannot understand how such biassed and one-sided articles are allowed to be published in the GLW newspaper. His
BY BRUNO RODRIGUEZ
[The following is an abridged version of a speech by Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuba's permanent representative to the United Nations, delivered at the UN General Assembly session on October 1, 2001.]
In a speech delivered just
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