CHRIS BAMBERY, national secretary of the British Socialist Workers Party (SWP), spoke to Green Left Weekly's PETER BOYLE on September 5. Bambery was in Sydney to attend the International Socialist Organisation's Marxism 2003 conference.
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BY LESLIE RICHMOND
ADELAIDE — With the fate of five teachers forcibly transferred from Craigmore High School unresolved, there has been a disturbing silence from the Australian Education Union (AEU) in South Australia.
The removal of the five
BY PETER BAKER
HOBART — On September 11, 150 members of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union (LHMWU) held a march and rally drawing attention to their campaign for smoke-free work places.
The protest action was called to put
BY HASAN ABU NIMAH
The resignation of the Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (also known as Abu Mazen) on September 7 should have surprised no-one. His appointment was part of a scheme that was no more than an artificial arrangement intended
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — For the past few weeks, I have been watching videotapes of the US-led attack on Iraq. Most of the tapes have not bee shown in Britain. They concentrate on the epic suffering of ordinary Iraqis. There are photographs, too,
Delegates to the annual British Trade Union Congress conference on September 10 unanimously backed a motion calling for "work through the United Nations for the withdrawal without delay of coalition troops and for control of Iraq to be given to the
BY EVA CHENG
On September 5, the Hong Kong government indefinitely shelved its highly controversial anti-subversion law (Article 23 of the Basic Law, the territory's quasi-constitution) after a series of massive protests since December. Article 23
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — Talk to any Victorian teacher and you are likely to get the same story — the job's getting harder. Most of us are working longer hours, with more responsibilities and our pay rate is barely moving. More teachers are
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
CANBERRA — Preparations have begun to make the protests against US President George Bush as large as possible. Bush will visit Canberra sometime after the October 21 APEC meeting held in Bangkok, Thailand.
An informal
BY JAMES BALOWSKI
JAKARTA — Indonesian government officials and high-ranking military officers have been hinting that, despite the military's (TNI) much-touted successes in its war against the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in the province
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third WorldBy Mike DavisVerso 2002464 pages, $48
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While drought is considered a natural phenomenon, famine is not so easily blamed on the elements. It may be
BY EVA CHENG
On September 9, the Zapatista National Liberation Army's Subcomandante Marcos addressed protesters who had gathered to oppose the World Trade Organisation's September 10-14 ministerial meeting in Cancun, Mexico. He pointed out that the
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