Raul Bassi
"The end of the last hope", was the way that a worker from Rio de Janeiro expressed her disillusionment with the Workers Party (PT) government of President Lucio Inacio "Lula" da Silva. "There is corruption, and the president is
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HOBART — Twenty people held banners and placards and chanted "Medicare, not warfare!" and "Bring the troops home now!" alongside a major road on July 26. The protesters, organised by the socialist youth organisation Resistance, were expressing
Sue Bolton
Quite a few places in the meat industry have AWAs. Some are in the retail services. Not a single AWA in the industry includes a rostered day off and the AWAs often allow the line to operate at a faster speed without increasing the amount
Satchmo Blows up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold WarBy Penny M. Von EschenHarvard University Press, 2004329 pages, $60 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Louis Armstrong was one of dozens of US jazz musicians sponsored by the US State
Turkeysthanksgivingandthose yankee doodleswiththeir big toysboomand gloomthe new centurionscast asliberatorswithno-man's landgrowing larger every daywhilecorpses pile upmulti-culturallyallreeking of democracy's deceptionandonly the desertkeeping it
Alex Miller
On July 22, a 27-year-old Brazilian man, Jean Charles de Menezes, was shot eight times by armed police in London — seven times in the head and once in the shoulder. The police later admitted that de Menezes had been unarmed and had no
REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN
Code 46Directed by Michael WinterbottomStarring Samantha Morton and Tim RobbinsOpens nationally August 4
Code 46 is a love story, but it's not your usual love story. It has as a backdrop some fascinating and very
ADELAIDE — Local bands Traveling Sacks, Mandala Project, Candle Wax and Ezulai, and musicians from Spacial Monkey donated their time and music to help raise more than $500 for Green Left Weekly and the Australia Venezuela Solidarity Network on
In the wake of the July 7 bombings in London, people in Britain and around the world are asking: why did this happen, and what can we do to stop it from happening again? Perfectly reasonable questions to which there are a variety of possible answers,
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