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GLW issue 458, published 2001-08-01.

UNITED STATES: Black union picketers threatened with five years' imprisonment

BY DAVID BACON
CHARLESTON — This September, five dockworkers will go on trial in South Carolina. Elijah Ford Jr., Ricky Simmons, Peter Washington, Jason Edgerton and Kenneth Jefferson face felony riot charges, arising from a confrontation on the

Protests against US sanctions

BY LISA MACDONALD
On August 6, the United States' brutal sanctions on Iraq will have been in place for 11 years. The Socialist Alliance, along with the Worker Communist Parties of Iraq and Iran, and the Committee to Defend Iraqi Women's Rights, has

Labor makes it worse for asylum seekers

On July 26 a young African man suicided in Villawood detention centre by hanging himself with a bedsheet. He had arrived at Sydney Airport a day and a half earlier, and had his visa cancelled by immigration officials — he was given no explanation

Abortion clinic 'resolved to carry on'

BY MARGARITA WINDISCH
MELBOURNE — The July 16 killing of security guard Steve Rogers at the well-respected Fertility Control Clinic in Melbourne has once again catapulted the abortion debate into the public domain, reminding many how tenuous a

ITALY: 'Revolution is back'

BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
GENOA — "Capitalism cannot be made to be more human, it must be overthrown", Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire leader and Euro MP Alain Krivine told a rally of 2000 which preceded the mass mobilisation of 300,000 on July

A steadfast defender of liberty

REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
The Quarrel of the Age: The Life and Times of William HazlittBy A. C. GraylingWeidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000399 pages, $69.95 (hb)
"Feculent garbage of blasphemy and scurrility", "loathsome trash", "disfiguring the records of

Business as usual in Melbourne

BY LINDA WALDRON
MELBOURNE — During the month of June, Melbourne was inundated with corporate self-promotion in the interests of developers, investors, big business and profiteers. The Melbourne City Council elections — for seven councilors,

WORLD ECONOMY: On the verge of global recession

BY EVA CHENG
Fears that an all-out world recession is about to hit have become increasingly pronounced, with Japan and the major European economies following the formerly booming United States into sharp deceleration.
In May, the International

Loose cannons

Dismal science
"My theory is that the nakedness of a woman is related to the performance of an economy. When an economy becomes more developed, women seem to wear less." — unnamed economist quoted in Beijing Evening News.
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GLW issue 458, published 2001-08-01.

Sydney activists organise for CHOGM

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

TAFE library dispute turns nasty

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

Loose cannons

Dismal science "My theory is that the nakedness of a woman is related to the performance of an economy. When an economy becomes more developed, women seem to wear less." — unnamed economist quoted in Beijing Evening News. They're only

Networker: Speaking to the world

Speaking to the world The language of the internet is English. This is a result both of its origin and of the dominance of the United States in the world's information technology industries. In the search for new markets there has been a major
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