BY BILL NEVINS
David Rovics, the US's most radical folksinger, stepped onstage in Albuquerque on October 2 wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the face of George Bush and the caption "International Terrorist". The audience applauded wildly.
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"These terrorists are serious, they're deadly and they know nothing except trying to kill. I understand that. That's why I will never stop at anything to hunt down and kill the terrorists." — John Kerry, St. Louis debate, October 8.
"[I]t is very
Eva Cheng
Hong Kong's recently elected pro-worker parliamentarian Leung Kwok-Hung, known as Long Hair, has overcome one threat to his elected position, only to have more descend.
After being elected to the Legislative Council (the territory's
INDIA — Villages condemn political killings
On October 1, a meeting of several hundred elected village representatives in Patna, capital of Bihar state, condemned the increasing number of killings of leading members of the Communist Party of
REVIEW BY ALISON THORNE
Revolutionary Integration: A Marxist Analysis of African American LiberationBy Richard Fraser and Tom BootRed Letter Press, Seattle 2004224 pages, $28.00 (pb)Available in Australia from Feminist Education Association, PO Box
Message Stick — Sydney Aboriginal artist Brooke Andrew challenges the stereotypical image of Indigenous art. ABC, Friday, October 22, 6pm.
Cuban Missile Crisis Declassified — Tells the story of 13 days in 1962 when the world stood on the brink
SYDNEY — In an interview printed in the October 14 Bulletin magazine, Indian writer and anti-globalisation campaigner Arundhati Roy, comparing Australia's Aborigines to India's untouchables, said she wanted to donate her $50,000 Sydney Peace Prize
Coming out of the October 9 federal elections, it seems that Family First candidate Steven Fielding may have the balance of power in the Senate, after receiving just 42,560 votes, because most parties, including Labor and the Democrats, preferenced
Kathy Newnam, Darwin
Postgraduate students at Charles Darwin University have declared their determination to continue to fight university management attempts to relocate 35 postgraduate research students to what they are calling "holding pens".
This is a man's account of Australasian Correctional Management (ACM) and immigration department (DIMA) staff's attempt to forcibly deport him from Villawood detention centre.
I'd been informed by the DIMA for the first time on 11 October 1999 I am
Sarah Stephen
Plans are underway for a national convergence on Canberra on November 16, the first sitting day of federal parliament since the October 9 federal election returned the Coalition to government.
The convergence is a joint initiative
REVIEW BY JESS MELVIN
The Resistible Rise of Arturo UiA play by Bertolt BrechtDirected by Erin ThomasPACT Theatre, Erskineville, Sydney. October 7-30Tickets $24/$18, bookings (02) 9699 344Concession tickets available for Green Left Weekly readers.
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