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Links No. 18128pp, $8.00Available at Resistance Bookshops REVIEW BY ALLEN MYERS The latest issue of Links magazine sets out to provide an indication of the breadth and depth of Marxist political activity and theory in Asia. It contains a
Rally saves planetarium BRISBANE — The Brisbane City Council has backed off from a threat to cut funding to the Brisbane Planetarium, after some 60 people rallied at the planetarium's Mount Coot-tha site on May 20 to demand it be kept open.
BY EVA CHENG Eight protesters who took part in the April 20-22 protests in Quebec City against the US-led plan for a Free Trade Area of the Americas have been sentenced to up to nine months imprisonment. Stephane Paquet, based in Quebec City, was
BY PATRICIA CORCORAN & ARUN PRADHAN The immediate measure to demand of "our" government is the unconditional right of entry and residence for all those who come here — an open door. Upon arrival, immigrants should be given equal access to
BY MAX LANE JAKARTA — More than 500 people, Acehnese and Indonesians, attended a series of lively debates and cultural events at conference organised by the Acehnese People's Democratic Resistance Front (FPDRA) and the Popular Youth Movement
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS M1, the first May Day of the new century, will be remembered by many of us for a long time. Twenty thousand students, workers, pensioners and mothers chanted, yelled, spoke, sang, danced and linked arms across Australia in a
BY PETER ROBSON NEWCASTLE — "M1 shares its name with a recent generation US Army tank, the M1 Abrams. It's ironic that today's crisis-addicts campaign against US imperialism — economic and cultural — when they enthusiastically take-up all the
BY SEAN HEALY Organisers of the protest against the Commonwealth Business Council Forum point to the record of the corporate leaders involved as motivation for their action. Hugh Morgan, chief executive, Western Mining Corporation,
Police violence at Perth M1 Jon Mayhew (Write on, GLW #449) raised the point that no riot shields were used on protesters. On this point he is correct. The mistake in my article was due to an error in the editing process. Police did not use riot
BY NICK EVERETT SYDNEY — Angry at federal budget plans to further erode access to social security and toughen "mutual obligation", local residents, indigenous community representatives, welfare recipients and Centrelink staff met in inner-city

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