BOLIVIA: Landless farmers protest
On August 16, thousands of landless peasants began marching from several points of Bolivia to the capital, joining thousands of peasants already protesting in the country's south. The march is demanding Landless
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Barry Sheppard, San Francisco
"The Democratic Party's campaign of dirty tricks to keep [independent left candidates] Ralph Nader and Peter Camejo off the presidential ballot constitutes the most serious threat to voting rights in the US since the
Deirdre Griswold
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 has become a huge box office hit, even though the Disney Corporation did everything it could to torpedo the documentary. This alone makes it important to evaluate the film and try to understand why
Tony Kevin
We find it easier to deal with whistleblowing disclosures out of government on small stories than on big ones. Often , the really big ones don't even need whistleblowers — they are all there already on the public record.
Yet, they do
Review by Sarah Stephen
Vicious Streaks: Seven Stories for the New WorldWritten by Alex BrounDirected by George Ogilvie & Lee LewisDarlinghurst Theatre, Greenknowe Avenue, Potts Pointuntil September 4$27/$21 Bookings (02) 8356 9987
"It's about an
Kylie Moon, Sydney
Family and friends were angry and in tears on August 14 after hearing the NSW coroner's findings on the death of the 17-year-old son of Gail Hickey. Coroner John Abernathy described the February 14 fatality in Redfern as a "freak
Simon Butler
It Can't Happen Here: A Political History of Student ActivismBy Graham HastingsEmpire Times Press, Adelaide, 2003$30 (pb)
On September 27, 1971, five student draft resisters who had refused to fight in the Vietnam War announced to
Jenny Long, Sydney
Following two weeks of rolling 24-hour stoppages, cleaners from 100 public schools and TAFE colleges across inner-city Sydney mounted community information pickets at their schools before rallying at the office of NSW education
The postal division of the Victorian communications union has been under left-wing leadership since a sweeping victory for the members Reform ticket in July 2003. The division's secretary, Joan Doyle, discussed the state of her union's struggle at a
Malik Miah, San Francisco
Throughout the second half of the 20th century, the trade unions in the United States were regarded by working people as the preeminent vehicles for the defence of labour's interests because they won the best wages, health
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