BY TAMARA PEARSON
Los Angeles, 1950: A pre-war light-rail system, one of the most extensive in the world, was dismembered by car, tyre and bus manufacturers and an oil company. Tracks were ripped from their routes, stations were torn down and row
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BY EVA CHENG
The delicate balance between the nuclear powers is up for a potentially dangerous shake-up after Russia and China on July 16 struck a formal alliance aimed at countering US President George W. Bush's "Son of Star Wars" anti-missile
BY JODY BETZEIN
MELBOURNE — An undercover police officer has arrested a prominent community journalist at the blockade of Nike's city superstore here on July 20, in the latest of many police provocations at such protests.
Numbers swelled for
By Neville Spencer
After 1997, when the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) called off peace talks with the Mexican government, progress on the Zapatistas' demands for indigenous rights stalled. Although moves by Mexico's new president to
[On June 17, the "Miami Five" while in custody sent a message to the people of the US]
We have been accused of endangering the security of the United States and indicted on numerous charges, including crimes such as conspiracy to commit murder that
["From the multitudes of Europe, rising up against the Empire and marching on Genoa", a statement released by the Italian White Overalls, the Tute Bianche, an autonomist movement involved in organising the protests in Genoa.]
We are new, and yet we
BY SARAH STEPHEN
SYDNEY — In the early hours of July 19, 23 men lifted the floorboards of a demountable building used as a mosque in the grounds of the Villawood immigration detention centre, and crawled through the drainage system to freedom.
BY ALISON DELLIT
"Why must anyone endure hunger, unemployment, early death from preventable diseases, ignorance, the lack of culture and all sorts of human and social afflictions for exclusively commercial reasons and profits?" — Fidel Castro.
The internet's origins
Talk to someone about the origins of the internet and you will get one of two views: the internet was originally developed to reduce the cost of US military research by allowing various research institutions to communicate
BY RACHEL EVANS
MELBOURNE — Following the July 16 fatal shooting of Steven Rogers, a security guard at the Fertility Control Clinic, pro-choice activists around the country mobilised to defend the right of women to safe, accessible abortion.
BY NOREEN NAVIN
SYDNEY — On July 7, delegates attending the NSW Teachers Federation's annual conference toured the most elite private schools in Sydney's eastern suburbs. The tour exposed the extent of federal and state government subsidisation
Due to a sub-editing mistake, an error appeared in Joyce Wu's article, "Labor left in bed with the sex industry" (GLW #456). The sentence, "In response, Lafayette ... argued that he did not see how the political and economic rights of women are
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