BY LIISA RUSANEN
SYDNEY — In response to the human rights abuses of the military dictatorship in Burma, a protest action was held outside the Grace Brothers department store in the Pitt Street mall on November 10.
The Grace Brothers store was
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BY EVA CHENG
The Indian coalition government led by the Hindu chauvinist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has stepped up its neo-liberal privatisation and economic liberalisation push. The 24-party government and its bourgeois counterparts are using
BY CLAIRE FLYNNAND KATHY NEWNAM
ADELAIDE — The "Grim Reaper" and a paper mache "loan shark" were among the 70 people at a protest, organised by the Adelaide S11 Alliance, outside an address by the managing director of the World Bank, Dr Mamphele
BY SUE BOLAND
At the beginning of the 20th century banks had a reputation as "bloodsuckers". Is it over-the-top to still describe them this way? When we consider the record of the major banks today (see accompanying article this page), this
Billy Elliot
Directed by Stephen Daldry
With Jamie Bell and Julie Walters
REVIEW BY ADAM GOLDSTEIN
The depiction of British working-class life in films, beginning in
the late-1950s, emerged full-bloom in the 1990s. It has taken
Seizing on Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) president Chen Shui-bian's pledge to stop the construction of Taiwan's controversial fourth nuclear power plant, the former ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party is leading a major drive to unseat Chen from the
BY GEORGINA DAVIES
MELBOURNE — A 24-hour stop work meeting by 250 members of the Latrobe Valley branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) caused power blackouts and restrictions across Victoria.
The workers voted to
Some 400,000 people converged on the capital of Indonesia's nothernmost province of Aceh, Banda Aceh, on November 10 for a two-day independence rally, despite scores of killings by security forces trying to prevent demonstrators attending.
The
BY MELODY COUTMAN & ALISON DELLIT
NEWCASTLE — The ballots cast in the Newcastle University Student Association (NUSA) presidential by-election on November 6-7 are to be destroyed uncounted, following a decision by the NUSA executive to uphold the
Richest man is the poor's best hope
Odd as it may seem, it took the richest man in the world to remind us that when most of the world's population lives on the edge of extinction, it mocks the rosy predictions for our common future on a wired
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