BY BEN REID
PORTO ALEGRE — The outstanding success of the second World Social Forum dealt a severe blow to the proponents of the "end of the anti-globalisation movement after September 11" pundits.
Some 51,300 people from all over the world and
480
and ain't i a woman?: Gender and the 'sanctity of marriage'
"Kevin" and "Jennifer" (names assigned to them by the Family Court) are a perfectly ordinary couple in their mid-30s, except that Kevin was born a female. In 1965, Kevin started life
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas TruceBy Stanley WeintraubThe Free Press, 2001206 pages, $39.95 (hb)
It was the war that was supposed "to be over by Christmas". It very nearly was. A spontaneous
BY RAY FULCHER
MELBOURNE — Julia Gillard, Labor's shadow minister for immigration and ethnic affairs, told a February 6 public meeting attended by more than 200 people that she was "not ashamed of the decisions Labor took in the run up to the
BY NORM DIXON
The United States has escalated its intervention in the civil war in Colombia with its February 5 announcement that Washington will help Colombia "protect" a strategic oil pipeline that is a frequent target of guerilla attacks.
The
BY JOHN PILGER
At the end of January the US government announced that it was building the biggest-ever war machine. Military spending will rise to US$379 billion, of which $50 billion will pay for its "war on terrorism". There will be special
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
BRISBANE — After attending an evening lecture at one of this city's universities last August, a young woman was dragged into the bushes and raped in a badly lit area of the campus. She could not identify her attacker. The woman
BY MAX LANE
PERTH — Almost 700 people turned out on February 4 to hear John Pilger condemn the corporate media bias in coverage of, and academic silence on, the so-called war against terrorism, refugees, globalisation and Australian government
BY ROHAN PEARCE
Predictions made by mainstream media commentators and spokespeople for the ruling elite that the movement against corporate tyranny would die in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks were disproved by the successful protests
Anti-refugee policy can be abolished
Prime Minister John Howard and immigration minister Philip Ruddock stood
firm throughout the two-week hunger strike by asylum seekers in the Woomera
detention centre. Some said this was proof that
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