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PRAGUE — This city was deliberately chosen as the venue for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to showcase what IMF managing director Horst Kohler triumphantly called "the new Prague", the jewel of a capitalist
Greens and front parties Geoff Ash's letter (GLW 422), responding to my article about David Oldfield's attempts to register front parties, focuses on one small inaccuracy, but fails to address the main issues raised. Ash correctly points out that
A question “Democracies cannot dispense with hypocrisy any more than dictatorships can with cynicism” — Georges Bernanos, 1888-1948. Before I begin, let me make it perfectly clear that I am not attacking anyone's sexual
PRAGUE — Green Left Weekly's SARAH PEART spoke to protesters at the rally on September 26 about why they were there and what they hoped to achieve. Raul, 24, from Slovakia: I am here to protest against the exploitation of the Third World and
Resistance has been globalised The massive S26 conferences, rallies and blockades in Prague, in opposition to the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, demonstrate that the movement against corporate
BY JIM GREEN ABC television's Media Watch program on September 11 took Channel Seven to task for "taking sides" in the debate over the proposed national radioactive waste dump in northern South Australia. The story was initiated by the federal
Zero interaction “Television, drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation”, sang the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy a few years ago. From its early days in the first decades of this century, television has been a
BY AARON BENEDEK SYDNEY — "Evictions are increasing, Olympic rents are going through the roof, and there is a chronic housing shortage", according to Gavin Sullivan, a Sydney Housing Action Collective (SHAC) spokesperson. But this hasn't stopped
BY SHANE BENTLEY SYDNEY — Two hundred people chanting "Refugees yes, racism no; Detention centres have got to go!" marched through the streets of Parramatta, in Sydney's western suburbs, on September 23. The rally was organised by the Refugee
BY CHRIS SLEE MELBOURNE — As tens of thousands of people linked arms, sang songs, danced jigs and blockaded the World Economic Forum from September 11 to 13, Victorian Labor Premier Steve Bracks was also extremely busy. In between loudly
Russian activists have appealed for international solidarity and protest after thugs of the neo-Nazi Russian National Unity party, armed with metal chains, burst into a school where Jewish children were taking religious lessons in the town of Ryazan,