GLW issue 588, published 2004-07-07.

CANADA: Voters reject the right

Barry Weisleder, Toronto On June 28, voters across Canada rejected the newly formed Conservative Party, and punished the Liberals for 11 years of cutbacks and corruption and strengthened the New Democratic Party (NDP). The electoral shift to the

HONG KONG: 530,000 protest China

Some 530,000 people, braving a heat wave in humid Hong Kong, demonstrated on the seventh anniversary of the former British colony's July 1, 1997, handover to China. They were angered by Beijing's recent rejection of the demand for complete direct

Katie Ball

Disability rights campaigner Kathleen (Katie) Ball died in Melbourne on June 25 from pneumonia at the age of 39. Katie was a qualified secondary teacher, a community development worker and a grassroots activist, who never shied away from taking

Report exposes dangers for sex workers

Lynda Hansen, Brisbane The Selling Sex in Queensland report, commissioned by the Prostitution Licensing Authority 18 months ago and independently prepared by researchers from the University of Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology,

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Australian News

'Troops out' rallies mark fake hand-over

Kerryn Williams, Sydney SYDNEY — Rallies took place around the country on June 30 to "Bring the troops home" and to protest the fake handover of sovereignty to a US-appointed Iraqi interim government. The "handover" occurring two days early and

Save the Daly

Justin Tutty& Jon Lamb, Darwin Environmentalists rallied June 28 to demand a moratorium on water extraction licenses in the Northern Territory's Daly River Basin. The protest was held before a meeting of the Daly Community Reference Group. The

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International News

INDIA: Grassroots activists murdered, persecuted

Eva Cheng Members and sympathisers of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation, who have been leading grassroots worker and peasant struggles have been under increasing attack in the states of Bihar and Assam. In the northern

IRAQ: Resistance ends US occupation of Baquba

Doug Lorimer On June 24, Iraqi resistance fighters forced US Army troops to withdraw to the outskirts of Baquba, a city with 250,000 residents located 56 kilometres north of Baghdad. The assault was part of coordinated attacks against US occupation

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Cultural Dissent

Finding Brisbane's radical heart

REVIEW BY JIM MCILROY Radical Brisbane: An unruly historyEdited by Raymond Evans & Carole FerrierVulgar Press, Melbourne 2004329 pages, pb, $50Available from <http://www.vulgar.com.au> Radical Brisbane: An unruly history is a timely

Dawn of the Dead

With Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber and Mekhi PhiferDirected by Zack Snyder REVIEW BY RJURIK DAVIDSON There is no space for liberalism in the horror story, which proceeds from the assumption that there is something drastically wrong with

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