BY STUART MUNCKTON
A Reuters news-wire report from Caracas on September 19 tells of a joke circulating among wealthy Venezuelans: George Bush wakes from a 10-year sleep to find that Saddam Hussein has embraced democracy. "What about Venezuelan
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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
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
BY RUSSELL PICKERING
PERTH Two thousand building workers rallied on the steps of Parliament
House on September 24 to protest another death in the construction industry.
Five days earlier, Des Walsh, a 47-year-old rigger with three
[This letter was received from
Lesley McCulloch via an email from the Acehnese human rights activists
working for her release from Indonesian custody. It was written on September
27.]
Those of you who know me personally can confirm I am
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
BY PAUL ROBERTS
MELBOURNE The Socialist Alliance's Melbourne South-East branch has preselected Josephine Cox as a candidate for the seat of Dandenong in the Victorian state election, expected before December. Cox, a TAFE student, ran for the
BY JIM GREENThe German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democratic-Greens coalition government was narrowly re-elected in the September 22 national elections.The Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the conservative Christian Democratic
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
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
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