BY DICK NICHOLS
MEXICO CITY — The leaders of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), headed by Subcomandante Marcos, are to emerge from Chiapas, the southernmost Mexican state where they led their famous 1994 uprising of the region's
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BY PAUL OBOOHOV
Public servants are prime targets for the federal government. In the last decade 110,000 public sector jobs have been lost through cuts to funding, restructuring and the outsourcing and privatisation of government services
Labor's 'promises' are rather slippery, to say the least — pinning down exactly what it will do is a bit like trying to nail jelly to a wall.
Dairy deregulation: Labor will not re-regulate the industry. A Beazley government would review the Dairy
The Full Montezuma: Around Central America and the Caribbean with the Girl Next DoorBy Peter MooreBantam Books 2000
Reviewed by Jackie Coleman
Australian travel writer, Peter Moore's The Full Montezuma, is an account of a six-month overland trip
By Roque Antonio Grillo
On December 29, Argentinian president Fernando de la Rua signed a decree reducing the sentences the "La Tablada" political prisoners after a 116-day hunger strike. In commuting the sentences of most prisoners, the government
Or a new system
"When you try all the tools in your toolbox and they don't work, then you have to try a new tool." — US Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill on attempts to revive the Japanese economy. He didn't suggest what the "'new tool" might be.
At 2pm on February 7, Ecuadoran indigenous leaders signed a 23-point
accord with President Gustavo Noboa Bejarano, ending an indigenous uprising
against economic policies imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The uprising started on
Networker: Crisis free production?
Can the new economy escape the problem of the old capitalist economy,
the boom-and-bust cycle? (New economy is a term applied to a range of
corporations and activities with some connection to new
BY SEAN HEALY
Support for the May 1 blockades of stock exchanges and financial districts continues to grow, including amongst trade unions.
Progress is most advanced in Victoria where a number of militant unions are growing increasingly keen on
BY MARGARET ALLUM
Human rights advocates are outraged by new legislation redefining the concept "terrorism", allowing for the banning of organisations considered terrorist and reversing the burden of proof, which was passed by the British