BY SEAN HEALY
Authorities in the mid-west city of Cincinatti have lifted a week-long night-time curfew, imposed after the city's black residents rose up in anger at the police's April 7 killing of 19-year-old Timothy Thomas.
Thomas was killed as
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TrafficStars Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta JonesDirected by Steven SoderberghAt all major cinemas.
REVIEWED BY STUART MUNCKTON
Traffic, the latest film by director Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich), uses a series of
Dubious message
"Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must be open." — George W. Bush, at the swearing-in ceremony for US agriculture secretary Ann Veneman, March 2, 2001.
Free market system
"We don't think
BY NORM DIXON
In late March, newspaper headlines hailed the announcement that giant Australian-owned mining, oil and steel corporation BHP and the huge Anglo-South African mining and base metals conglomerate Billiton had agreed to merge, forming
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
For decades peasants, workers, urban poor and indigenous people in all the continents of the global South have fought mining companies, the International Monetary Fund, sweatshop operators and other forms of imperialist
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — Its final tactics all but refined, the Canberra M1 Alliance has predicted that its May 1 blockade of Mining Industry House, which houses the main national lobby group for the big mining companies, will be a resounding
BY SEAN HEALY
The decision to site the World Trade Organisation's next ministerial conference in the repressive emirate of Qatar wasn't only intended to prevent mass demonstrations. It was also designed to split opponents of a new trade round into
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
PERTH — Metropolitan bus drivers here are fighting back against years of low pay and worsening conditions. At an April 18 stop-work meeting, drivers from three bus companies — Perth Bus, Path Transit and Southern Coast Transit
BY JORGE JORQUERA
MELBOURNE It is exciting to hear of the newly established Socialist
Alliance. Australia has for some time now had a great need for a left alliance.
The Labor Party appears to have moved to the right, finding itself
REVIEW BY KATHY FAIRFAX
Aceh: The People's StruggleProduced by Actively Radical Television, SydneySend $24 to ARTV, 73-75 Princess Highway, St Peters, NSW, 2044Phone (02) 9565 5522
The people of Aceh, in the far north-west of the Indonesian
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