PRAGUE — More than 11,000 police, mostly in riot units, will be deployed on city streets during the IMF and World Bank meeting. They will be assisted in their tasks by more than 1600 troops.
The Czech troops will deploy six armoured personnel
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REVIEW BY MAX WATTS
It was almost 60 years ago. FDR's United States was, with Stalin's Soviet Union, leading the battle against fascism. Churchill's England tagged along behind.
BY ROSEMARIE GILLESPIE
Shane Warne, former vice captain of the Australian cricket team, on hearing of a complaint that he had sexually harassed an English woman, said: "If it had stayed private, it wouldn't have been a mistake".
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The following is the text of a model motion for trade unions and community groups to condemn police violence at S11.
This (union/meeting/executive) condemns the September 11-13 assaults by the Victoria Police on non-violent blockaders at Crown
BY PETER BOYLE
The September 18 issue of the Melbourne Age carried an article by former left activist John Passant, who warned: "Kim Beazley should be worried. The events in Melbourne last week represent a long-term political threat to the ALP ...
PRAGUE — Fresh from disrupting the World Economic Forum's summit in Melbourne, the next stop for the anti-capitalism express is Prague, in the Czech Republic, where on September 26 the two major enforcers of corporate globalisation, the
BY SEAN HEALY
The S11 protests against the World Economic Forum summit in Melbourne may have claimed a quite unintended, but welcome, victim: a quick launch of a new round of World Trade Organisation talks.
The Seattle ministerial meeting of the
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No matter where you go within the four walls of Australia, the games will be upon you. The nation is saturated. "I still call Australia home" has moved in for the duration, occupying musical fragments inside the head of every mother's
DILI — The newest addition to East Timor's political landscape was declared formally at the National Council of Timorese Resistance headquarters on September 20: the Social Democratic Party (PSD).
The founders and key leaders of the PSD are
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY
ADELAIDE — Unions covering workers at Perry Engineering are not confident that the new owners will re-employ staff who lost their jobs when the company closed. The firm went into receivership earlier this year, and workers are
BY BEA BREAR
HOBART — "What really happened at S11" was the theme of a September 19 Green Left Weekly public forum and multimedia extravaganza put together by Resistance and Democratic Socialist Party activists returned from the Melbourne
BY NICOLA BULLARD
The International Monetary Fund's new managing director's intention to "drive change from within the institution rather than have it imposed from outside" does not inspire confidence, given the fund's dismal record of reform so
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