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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
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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,
The release of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) documents on East Timor for the period 1974-76 has provoked former Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and former Australian ambassador to Indonesia Richard Woolcott to try to defend their
BY TIM STEWART & SUE BOLAND
BRISBANE — While the Transport Workers Union was restricted from officially endorsing the blockades of oil refineries here and in Melbourne for fear of legal action, the union's national president and Queensland state
It was the movement which finally toppled the dictator Suharto in 1998 which made Romawaty Sinaga realise that workers and students had to unite to achieve any lasting fundamental change. IN that year, she left her position as an assistant lecturer
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