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Brenner's popularisation of 'Global Turbulence'

BY ROHAN PEARCE John Pilger has come under attack in Britain for his documentary Palestine is Still the Issue, to be screened in Australia on SBS TV at 8.30pm on October 8. A September 20 article in the British Jewish Chronicle

CFMEU's Kingham could be jailed

BY SUE BULL MELBOURNE — Martin Kingham, the Victorian state secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), faces the possibility of six months' imprisonment. Kingham was formally charged with being in contempt of the

COLOMBIA: MP flees Uribe's death squads

BY ROBERTO JORQUERA According to independent left-wing Colombian MP Gustavo Montealegre Almario, Colombia's president, Alvaro Uribe Velez, is the leader of the country's right-wing paramilitary death squads groups. Montealegre told Green Left

Resistance adopts 'call to action'

BY ROHAN PEARCE MELBOURNE —"We want to draw the link between war and corporate globalisation, and win people to the perspective that a movement against neo-liberalism and imperialism in a time of war needs to become an anti-war movement", Kylie

Activists plan to shut down the WTO meeting

BY MARINA CARMAN& DALE MILLS SYDNEY — A meeting initiated by the No WTO network was held on September 21 to discuss protest actions against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting of trade ministers to be held on November 14-15. Around 100

Poor Indonesians scapegoated in people-smuggling trial

BY SARAH STEPHEN A Perth District Court judge on September 27 sentenced two Indonesian fisherpeople to jail for their role in transporting 438 asylum seekers to Australia in August last year. The people responsible for organising the journey and

Labor's real plan for Telstra

BY ALISON DELLIT On September 19, federal ALP leader Simon Crean, accompanied by Labor's candidate for the Cunningham by-election, Sharon Bird, announced that the party would vote against the Coalition's proposed changes to Telstra's price controls

Humanitarian crisis in Palestine

BY SOBHI ALBADAWI& NOREEN NAVIN SYDNEY — Mustapha Barghouthi, president of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees, gave a presentation on the situation in Palestine at the Trades and Labor Council on September 20. Barghouthi was in

COVER STORY: Bush's Iraq war threat based on lies

On September 24, British Prime Minister Tony Blair presented his much-anticipated "dossier", Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction, to the parliament. Supporters of a US attack on Iraq had promised that Blair would provide the definitive "evidence" that

George Georges a fighter for socialist principles

BY JIM McILROY BRISBANE — Former Labor senator George Georges died in Canberra on September 23 after a long illness. He was 82. Georges was from a rare breed: an ALP politician who stood up for his principles at the cost of his

NETHERLANDS: US brands exiled Filipino leftist 'terrorist'

BY BEN COURTICE On August 9, the US State Department designated the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New Peoples Army (NPA) as “foreign terrorist organizations” and implored other governments to do the same. On August

CFMEU set to win pattern bargaining campaign

BY MICK BULL MELBOURNE — The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) and the Federated Engine Drivers and Fireman's Association (FEDFA) have reached an in-principle agreement with the Master Builders Association (MBA) over