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Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9-11pm. Ph 9565 5522. Access News — Melbourne community TV,
The following is the address by Cuba's President Fidel Castro to the United Nations' Millennium Summit in New York, September 6. There is chaos in our world, both within countries' borders and beyond. Blind laws are offered like divine norms that
BY PIP HINMAN SYDNEY — On September 5 some 250 trade unionists, students and campaigners were treated to a radical-sounding speech from Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national secretary Doug Cameron, the most prominent of the ALP's "fair
Where in the world is ... ? In recent years it has become increasingly difficult to get lost, thanks to the use of the global positioning system (GPS). Covering the entire planet, GPS is based on signals from a network of 24
BY PIP HINMAN SYDNEY — In debates on workers' struggles against corporate globalisation, not a lot has been heard from community and trade union leaders from the Third World. However at the Globalisation and Corporate Tyranny seminar here on
BY JIM GREEN The federal Coalition government has taken a number of decisions to reassure big business that measures adopted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will have little or no impact. Federal minister for industry, science and resources
BY RICHARD PITHOUSE DURBAN, South Africa — Together with the bunnychow (see the glossary for a translation of South Africanisms), the spliff and the palm tree, life in Durban includes AmaZion trance dancing on traffic circles. So it's rather
Mexican environmentalists sentenced Rodolfo Montiel Flores, the imprisoned leader of a campesino environment group in the western Mexican state of Guerrero, was notified on August 28 that he had been sentenced to six years and eight months' jail
BY SUSAN PRICE MELBOURNE — Green Left Weekly condemned as censorship a decision by organisers of the World Economic Forum summit to deny accreditation to the newspaper's journalists. The World Economic Forum knocked back applications from other
Banks The major shareholders who control the banks are a law unto themselves. They are completely indifferent to the inconvenience that they have caused depositors by closing many branches, and also to the job insecurity of those who are still
Adelaide S11 — an eyewitness account. What really happened & where to now? Resistance meeting. Sat Sept 16, 2pm. Resistance Centre, (upstairs) 34 Hindley St, city. Ph 8231 6982. Fighting globalisation. Socialist training camp. Sat
BY RON BAKER If the Australian economy is in such good shape, why is it that poverty and disadvantage continue to grow at an alarming rate? The usual suspects are benefiting greatly, surpassing even their own levels of greed, while a large section