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BY LAUREN CARROLL-HARRIS
SYDNEY — Forty activists protesting the police murder of 23-year-old Genoa protester Carlo Giuliani were met with large black steel barricades and dozens of police and security guards when they descended on the Italian

BY CHRISTOPHER PERKINS
WOLLONGONG — Illawarra TAFE institute management has upped the ante in its attempt to halt its library staff's stubborn fight against job cuts by threatening to dock the pay of union members who refuse to work evening

BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — The coalition which organised the May 1 blockade of the stock exchange has changed its name and its focus.
Twenty members of the group, meeting on July 26, decided it was to time to change its name from M1 Sydney to

BY SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON
Michael Arnold (GLW #455) makes a very good case for drug legalisation as an alternative to "law and order" or "harm minimisation" strategies. Sadly, many people in the campaign for drug law reform have been pursuing

BY JON LAND
As campaigning for the Constituent Assembly elections slowly gathers momentum across East Timor, the installation of Megawati Sukarnoputri as Indonesia's new president has drawn a mixed response from East Timor's political leaders and

BY ALISON DELLIT
"Slowly, inexorably, attitudes towards the unborn, in all but the most ideologically inflexible, are changing to reflect our growing knowledge. That's not because of anti-abortion fanatics but because of undeniable science." —

No bank closures!
CANBERRA — Socialist Alliance activists held a speakout outside the Bunda Street branch of the Commonwealth Bank on July 27 to protest its closure.
The action was the culmination of weekly Socialist Alliance campaign stalls

BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
GENOA — The repression unleashed on those who protested against the G8 summit here was the fiercest at any such protest to date: one person, Carlo Giuliani, was murdered iin Genoa, another was killed in unknown

BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — Despite widespread community opposition the New South Wales government is pushing ahead with plans to build a $48 million jail for women in western Sydney.
The new jail will be called Dillwynia (after an endangered plant

A large majority of US whites perceive African Americans as having equal or better opportunities than themselves. This incredible misconception is documented in a new national poll conducted by the Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family