Anthony Blunt:
His Lives
By Miranda Carter
Macmillan, 2001
590 pp, $25 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
In 1979, when British PM Margaret Thatcher exposed Sir Anthony Blunt
as the Fourth Man of the famous Cambridge University spy ring (Guy
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BY BENN BANASIK
SYDNEY — "Peace is possible! War is not the answer!" echoed through the streets of the famous seasside suburb of Manly on March 10 as more than 700 anti-war residents joined together to show they will not support a war on the
BY ALISON
DELLIT
It is usual for newspapers to canvass a range of opinions following
major government speeches such as Prime Minister John Howards National
Press Club address on March 13 in which he presented his government's case
for
More than 1 million people marched through Cairo on March 1 in a anti-war protest sponsored by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party. Members of the party, including the minister of information, marched with the
BY
STEVE O'BRIEN
CHARLESTOWN, NSW The newly opened campaign headquarters for the
Socialist Alliance's election campaign for the seat of Charlestown in the
March 22 NSW election is attracting the attention of voters. The windows
of the
BY ALISON DELLIT
Prime Minister John Howard's Liberal-National coalition government has taken a decision to commit to a war that Australians want no part of, and it has done so without even bothering to hold a parliamentary debate. In these
BY JAMES BALOWSKI
JAKARTA In response to continuing protests and press criticism,
the government of President Megawati Sukarnoputri is resorting to the tactics
used by the Suharto dictatorship to suppress dissent.
A March 1 article in the
BY ROHAN PEARCE
US President George Bush has increasingly resorted to the claim that the aim of his regime's planned invasion of Iraq is to spread "democracy" throughout the Middle East. The worth of this claim is belied by the US record of backing
BY BUSTER SOUTHERLY
"Now how many people must get killed? For oil families' pockets to get filled?", ask the Beastie Boys in the new anti-war song "In a World Gone Mad". The song was released on March 11 on the group's web site
MANILA — More than 3000 women, led by Women Rage (Women's Resistance to Globalisation and to End War), protested outside the US embassy here on International Women's Day, March 8. The women demanded that the Philippines government address issues of
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