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Competition, heart of the market Corel is a Canadian company that produces software for the publishing industry. Some of its products, such as CorelDraw and Ventura (a product it bought rather than invented), are among the best in the
PRAGUE — In the city of Kafka, hundreds of international visitors have been left wondering about the precise name of their crime, after the Czech police began a policy of random arrest following the global day of action against the World Bank and
BY SEAN HEALY There were no major announcements, no new policy initiatives, all the drama was outside with the protesters, and the meetings finished a full day early. Nevertheless, when the annual meetings of the World Bank and International
So advanced is Cuba's national health system, in spite of the strictures of poverty and a US economic embargo, that a child born there will live a longer healthy life than a poor child born in the world's richest country. Even a nation as wealthy as
Ginsberg: A BiographyBy Barry MilesVirgin, 2000627 pp., $24.95 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON He "ruined a great many young people" with his 1956 poem, "Howl", with its "glorification of madness, drugs and homosexuality, and its contempt and hatred
BY CHRIS SPINDLER MELBOURNE — As the picket line at the Arrowcrest-owned Brownbuilt factory here entered its fourth week, community activists and other unionists supporting the Brownbuilt workers targeted other sites owned by Arrowcrest. At ROH
By Erin Cameron ROCKHAMPTON — The Reclaim the Night committee and Green Left Weekly held a successful joint feminist film afternoon on October 1, part of a series of events organised in the lead-up to this year's Reclaim the Night march. Twenty
BY CHRIS SLEE Green Left Weekly is able to exclusively reveal what many have suspected for a long time. Not only are the policies of immigration minister Philip Ruddock identical to those advocated by Pauline Hanson — but they are actually one
Lesbian and gay groups and civil liberties organisations have expressed outrage at threats made by Namibia's home affairs minister, Jerry Ekandjo, on September 30. Addressing a graduation ceremony for police officers in Ondangwa, Ekandjo urged them
Harry's Gone FishingLeon RosselsonGadfly Records at <http://www.gadflyrecords.com> REVIEW BY BILL NEVINS Wry socialist-anarchism with a sharp historical eye and a taste for good, strong melody: that's the reputation of Leon Rosselson,
MAPUTO — In a stunning turn-around, Mozambique's ministry of environment announced on September 29 that they were no longer considering the Danish International Development Agency's (Danida) plan to convert a local cement kiln into a hazardous
Victorian teachers offered sham agreement BY NORRIAN RUNDLE & MICHAEL O'REILLY MELBOURNE — After seven years of working under no certified agreement on pay and conditions, Victorian teachers have finally been offered one — but it