BY EVA CHENG
Public anger against escalating corruption, smuggling, tax evasion, fee extortions and other forms abuses of power by Communist Party officials found expression among the delegates in the traditionally uncontroversial annual sessions
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Finding the enemy
Who is the enemy? This is a dilemma for the US military chasing funding
in a post-Soviet era of peace dividend.
In Cuckoo's Egg, Clifford Stoll's dramatic account of intrigue
and interference in data networks
BY NORM DIXON
The United States government, at the urging of the big Western drug corporations, is attempting to prevent Brazil expanding its production of cheap "generic" versions of patented anti-AIDS medicines. If Washington and the drug lords
On March 6 eight West Australian Liberal MPs wrote a letter calling on Prime Minister John Howard to block the imminent $10 billion takeover of Australia's 12th largest company, Woodside Petroleum, by the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell.
BY MARGARET PERROT
WOLLONGONG — The sacking of Dr Ted Steele from Wollongong University has attracted a great deal of media attention in the past month. Much less well known is the university's treatment of Green Left Weekly journalist and
BY JEREMY SMITH
BALLARAT — The National Tertiary Education Union at the University of Ballarat has voted to back the planned M1 blockade of Melbourne's stock exchange.
The motion, passed by the branch's executive on March 9, follows strong
BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — "The borders are open for the capitalists to exploit workers all over the world but they are shut in the faces of refugees and poor people", Surma Hamid of the Committee in Defence of Iraqi Women's Rights told a forum
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
On March 12, a group of 70 masked thugs armed with batons, machetes
and bamboo sticks attacked the Jakarta offices of the National Student
League for Democracy (LMND). They smashed the gate, door and windows, then
BY SEAN HEALY
The two letters — M1 — are certainly getting around: they're on flyers, on lamp posts, stencilled onto footpaths, they've even started to get into the mainstream media. The idea is getting around too: "we're going to blockade the