Rohan Pearce
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, the most successful anti-war film ever, doesn't gloss over the atrocities committed by the US occupation forces in Iraq, depicting graphic scenes of carnage inflicted on Iraqis by US soldiers. But
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Dick Nichols
ALP leader Mark Latham would make himself very popular if he rejected the Coalition government's misnamed "free trade" agreement (FTA) with the United States and demanded its renegotiation.
He would become the hero of the Australian
REVIEW BY EVA CHENG
China and Socialism: Market Reforms and Class StruggleBy Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul BurkettMonthly Review July-August 2004130 pages
Is China today still socialist, or has it turned capitalist? This is a nagging question
Doug Lorimer
The Australian and British governments — Washington's partners in last year's illegal invasion of Iraq — have offered to send troops to Sudan as part of a UN "peacekeeping" force, despite the fact that there is no proposal before
Lance Selfa & Alan Maass
The price of admission to the posh convention affair was a soft-money donation to the party of $350,000 or more. The power brokers were all there, including the vice presidential candidate. The menu featured lobster,
The feminist struggle against the oppression of women has expressed itself in a commitment to gender equality — to winning equal rights for women, to gaining more access for women to jobs, to equal pay and to ending violence by men against women.
Mike Byrne
The July 17 Courier Mail exposed the staggering depth of the state Labor government's handouts of taxpayers' money to some of Australia's largest corporations conducting business in Queensland. A total of $21.5 million was handed out to
Stephen Garvey, Melbourne
Victoria's ambulance paramedics have refused to obey an order issued on July 30 by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) to lift work bans. Paramedics lifted bans on ambulance bypass, pre-bypass and
PERTH — PM John Howard came to Perth's working-class eastern suburbs on July 29 to campaign in the marginal Labor seat of Hasluck. He was met by a crowd of 100 protesters as he entered Midland Town Hall.
"The crowd represented a fair cross
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