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NSW law is being moved closer to giving the fetus legal rights independent of the woman who is carrying it, following the release of a review into the state's manslaughter legislation. In his report, released on June 25, retired Supreme Court judge
BY MAX LANE The 2004 election campaign has started. There have been two important initiatives. The first relates to the major establishment parties, those with substantial numbers of MPs in the parliament. The second is the creation of the
BY WALTER LIPPMANN The online version of Walter Lippmann's report from Cuba's July 26 celebrations can be found at his web site http://www.walterlippmann.com. The complete English translation of Fidel Castro's speech is at
Marx's EcologyBy John Bellamy FosterMonthly Review Press, 2000310 pages, $32.40 REVIEWED BY BEN COURTICE Although Marxists have taken part in the environmental movement, especially since its rapid rise in the 1970s, there has always been
BY DOUG LORIMER While preaching "non-proliferation" of weapons of mass destruction to underdeveloped countries — and using allegations of WMD development as a justification for invading Iraq and threatening to attack North Korea, Iran and Syria
On July 23, Indigenous leaders from around the country were invited to Canberra to attend a round-table discussion on Indigenous violence. While Prime Minister John Howard has received praise from the mainstream press and sections of the Indigenous
BY EVA CHENG To get Third World countries to agree to a new round of global talks on trade rules, in November 2001, at the Doha ministerial summit, US President George Bush's administration supported a declaration that reaffirmed the right of
BY JOHN NEBAUER& RENFREY CLARKE ADELAIDE — Strike action planned for August 4 by 600 bus drivers employed by the Serco bus company has been deferred while the workers wait for representatives of the state Industrial Relations Commission to visit
BY ROHAN PEARCE In the end, it took a US$30 million bribe, six hours, several hundred troops, and more than 20 missiles fired from helicopter gunships for the US military to kill two armed thugs, a bodyguard and a 14-year-old boy. Fittingly for
SYDNEY — "Afghanistan has become a forgotten story once again", said Tahmeena Faryal, a representative of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), during her recent speaking tour of Australia. "A lot was promised by the

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