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
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BY DICK NICHOLS
[This is the text of a talk given to the final plenary of the September 22-23 Sydney Social Forum on the topic of alternatives to globalisation.]
Let me begin by asking an unpopular question and give what could well be an
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
BY ANDY GIANNIOTIS
SYDNEY Around
2000 people marched on September 26 to oppose the coming US-British war
on Iraq and to demand a stop to Israel's US-backed war against the Palestinian
people.
The rally was jointly organised by the
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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
BY SUE BULL& GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE A public meeting against war on Iraq on September 26 attracted 250 people. The meeting was organised by the Victorian Peace Network.
Featured speakers at the meeting were Dr Scott Burchill from Deakin
BY STEPHEN MARKS
MANAGUA Every pig has its Saturday is a popular Nicaraguan saying,
which refers to slaughter of fattened pigs on Saturdays for the weekend
cooking pot. For former right-wing president Arnoldo Aleman, Saturday seems
to
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
and ain't i a woman?: Scarlet classifieds
In late August, a classified ad was printed in the Florida-based Tallahassee Democrat. After listing the name of the author, along with her age, height, hair and eye colour, weight and race, it
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