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Monsanto: profits through deceit

The chemical company Monsanto has existed for just short of 100 years. Fraud and deceit have been associated with it for much of that time. This is a short history. The production of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) began in the 1930s. They were

SA unions protest against redundancy scheme

BY BRONWEN BEECHEY ADELAIDE — The United Trades and Labor Council of South Australia is considering turning its traditional Labor Day march, on September 29, into a strike following the refusal of the state Liberal government to contribute to a

Woomera protests expose government's vicious refugee policies

BY SIMON BUTLER It seems that for the federal Coalition government to even pretend to respect the human rights of refugees, women or Aborigines has become far too tedious and burdensome to bother with. On August 28, a desperate protest by asylum

Protesters tell Nike, 'Just stop it!'

BY OWEN RICHARDS SYDNEY — The roar of traffic along Parramatta Road in Auburn did not silence 70 spirited protesters gathered outside the Nike factory-warehouse on September 1. The protesters, organised by Resistance, heard speakers decry

Protests for refugee rights

BY SUSAN PRICE& STUART MARTIN More than 200 people rallied outside the Maribyrnong Detention Centre in Melbourne on August 26 in support of refugees' rights. The facility is run on behalf of the Australian government by Australian Corrections

Cuba exposes US hypocrisy on immigration

Last week, US secretary of state Madeline Albright let loose with a hypocritical blast at Cuba for supposedly having denied exit visas to 117 (yet to be identified) Cubans who wanted to leave the island and had United States visas. The US State

Networker: Money for nothing

BY GREG HARRIS You used to hear, "I had this friend who won umpteen hundred thousand dollars for almost nothing in a lottery syndicate". In the past year it has more likely been, "I had this friend who got involved in an internet company and made

Loose cannons

Exceptions make the rule "I don't think Australians will ever so far lose their common sense as to elect stupid people." — PM John Menzies Howard explaining in the August 23 Age why the new military powers legislation us unlikely to be abused by

Blood on many hands

REVIEW BY HELEN JARVIS Death in Balibo, lies in CanberraBy Hamish McDonald and Desmond BallSt Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2000. 199 pp., $24.95. "Blood on whose hands?" is the subtitle on the striking cover of this powerful book, which recounts

CUBA: Feeding the people organically

Organic farming — often considered an insignificant part of the food supply — can feed an entire country, concludes a report by the Oakland-based Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First (<http://www.foodfirst.org>), a group

Globalisation and the far right

BY ROBERTO JORQUERA PERTH — The campaign here against corporate tyranny has taken a new turn with the organising of a Globalisation Convention for November. The convention was initiated by the local Stop MAI (Multilateral Agreement on Investment)

WA teachers campaign for better pay

BY ANA KAILIS PERTH — Members of the Australian Education Union (AEU) WA branch packed the Entertainment Centre on September 1 to endorse an escalation of the campaign for better wages and adequate funding for WA's schools and TAFEs. The AEU