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BOLIVIA: Evo Morales: 'After 500 years of resistance, we are retaking power'

BY BENJAMIN DANGL COCHABAMBA — This interview with socialist leader Evo Morales took place a month after the massive popular uprising against the Bolivian government's proposal to export the country's natural gas to the US for a meagre sum. Huge

New act threatens press freedom

BY JOO-CHEONG THAM The ASIO Legislation Amendment Bill 2003 proposes to amend the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979 in a far-reaching manner, by inserting additional secrecy provisions into the act's detention and questioning

MEXICO: Campaign against GM contamination

BY EVA CHENG An international campaign was launched on November 20 to stop the contamination of Mexican corn (maize) with the DNA from genetically modified (GM) corn produced by multinational food corporations. Corn is the Mexican population's

Militant gains support in CPSU elections

BY PAUL OBOOHOV Opposition candidate Andrew Hall has won 45.1% in the ballot for the position of national president of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU). Hall is a member of the militant Members First group within the union. "This

'Enron is dead, long live Enronism!'

Fat Cats and Running Dogs: the Enron Stage of CapitalismBy Vijay PrashadZed Books, 2002, 246 pp, $28.95 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Enron, the giant US-based energy corporation, may have died from "creative accounting" and speculative

Free the Five

To the land of libertyThey came in freedom's nameThey came out openlyTo expose the villain's game From Miami's emigres"The Brothers" came in '96Their goals your power playTo injure and impoverish Free the Five, free the Five So five infiltrated

An old-fashioned political stitch-up

BY SUE BOLTON The torrent of media speculation generated by the November 18 assault on Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) national secretary Doug Cameron has all the hallmarks of a good old-fashioned political stitch-up. The media

UNITED STATES: Left-wing Green to runoff for mayor

SAN FRANCISCO — Voters shocked the Democratic Party establishment in the November 4 mayoral election by giving Green Party candidate and city councillor Matt Gonzalez more than 20% of the vote. He came in second to moderate Democrat Gavin Newsom,

IRAQ: Is the US empire invincible?

BY DOUG LORIMER Seven months ago, when the US army rolled into Baghdad, the US war machine seemed invincible. The US rulers seemed to be in reach of realising their goal of conquering Iraq and using it as a secure base from which to establish

TURKEY: Who benefits from terrorist bombings?

BY MICHAEL KARADJIS The recent horrific bombings of two historic Turkish synagogues and two British targets in Istanbul, which left 52 people dead and some 70 injured, raise the question of why al Qaeda would target Turkey and massacre large

UNITED STATES: 'FTAA lite': a setback for Washington

BY EVA CHENG The United States' "free trade" push suffered another setback at the November 17-21 fourth ministerial summit of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), held in Miami. Due to opposition, led by Brazil, to aspects of the pact, the

HONG KONG: Voters turn against pro-Beijing party

BY EVA CHENG The pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) had only 62 of its 206 candidates elected in Hong Kong's District Council elections on November 23. In the last DC elections in 1999, 83 DAB candidates were