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
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BY JIM GREEN
"What was done at Maralinga was a cheap and nasty solution that wouldn't be adopted on white-fellas land." This comment was made by nuclear engineer and Maralinga whistle-blower Alan Parkinson on ABC radio on August 5.
Parkinson was
BY MELINDA SMITH
SYDNEY On September 24, the Port Jackson branch of the Socialist Alliance decided that its candidate for the March 2003 state election would be Paul Benedek.
The decision to contest the seat gives voters an alternative to
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
In early August, three revolutionary socialist organisations in the Philippines the Partido ng Manggagawang Pilipino (Workers Party of the Philippines, PMP), the Sosyalistang Partido ng Paggawa (Socialist Party of Labour, SPP) and the Partido
BY ROHAN PEARCE
MELBOURNE
Even if United Nations Security Council support for this war is granted,
the agenda behind the war won't change, Kim Halpin, a member of Resistance
and the La Trobe University education officer, told a
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
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA As the Indonesian economy sinks into even deeper crisis, a major social and political crisis has begun to unfold. This crisis began with the September 11 re-election by the Jakarta provincial parliament of retired general
Santa's little helpers
"The HIH royal commission has heard the company threw extravagant Christmas parties for staff a little over a year before the company collapsed. The commission has been told HIH spent almost $1.2 million on Christmas parties
Paradise Betrayed: West Papua's Struggle for IndependenceBy John MartinkusQuarterly Essay, issue 7Black IncOrder at <http://www.blackincbooks.com>
REVIEW BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
The latest issue of Quarterly Essay features an essay by
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