BY NORM DIXON
Both the Taliban and the factions of the Northern Alliance are veterans of US imperialism's last great "crusade", against the Soviet Union and "communism".
Then, as now, Washington dishonestly justified its war against the Afghan
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BY LYNETTE DUMBLE
Operation Enduring Freedom will not be remembered as US President George Bush and his global messenger British Prime Minister Tony Blair would prefer, by global peace movements, by the Islamic world, or by the world's women.
Taking control
In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the FBI has stepped up its campaign to police the internet. According to media reports, major internet service providers that had previously resisted
BY SEAN HEALY
The United States has given its clearest hints yet that the "war on terrorism" will extend to many more targets than Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban and many more countries than Afghanistan.
In the first days after the terrorist
BY NICK FREDMAN
LISMORE — Living in northern NSW, it has been impossible to miss anti-war activities with four actions in less than a week.
The most high profile action was a picket of National Party member for Page Ian Causley's campaign
Laying the blame
Yula Geredov ("Write On", GLW #466) claims that I have distorted the situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip by only providing the "Palestinian's account of the story". She claims that "blaming will not do a thing except
General Electric is one of the biggest corporations in the world — and one of its biggest arms manufacturers. Its engines power the war machine.
GE operates in more than 100 countries, including Australia, and employs 313,000 people. Its products
BY KYLIE MOON
MELBOURNE — In a win for left-wing students, activist ticket No War No Racism has won the position of education officer on the La Trobe University Students Representative Council in the student elections which finished on October
BY SARAH STEPHEN
SYDNEY — For two days, beginning on October 7 every section of the corporate media, from TV to newspaper, reported that a group of around 220 Iraqi asylum seekers had callously thrown their children overboard before themselves
BY SALEH AL MASRI
0nly by the latter years of the first intifada (uprising), which erupted at the end of 1987 did the buds of Palestinian military activity appear. However, this is in no way comparable with the developments witnessed in the "Aqsa
ONE Day eleven people poisoned themselves here.Somewhere between those blinded by diseaseand those blinded by rockets.
TWO Eyes that rested in fever and never moved again;eyes that saw the atom.
THREE Armies who have taken chargehave banned
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