BY NORM DIXON
The February 16 bombing of Baghdad by US and British warplanes was a calculated signal by US President George W. Bush's regime that it will continue - and escalate - the genocidal war against the Iraqi people begun by the US
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BY GAIL LORD
PARRAMATTA — After staging the first International Women's Day march and rally in Parramatta for 30 years in 2000, feminists in Sydney's western suburbs are organising an even bigger IWD action on March 8 with the theme, "Women
The Full Montezuma: Around Central America and the Caribbean with the Girl Next DoorBy Peter MooreBantam Books 2000
Reviewed by Jackie Coleman
Australian travel writer, Peter Moore's The Full Montezuma, is an account of a six-month overland trip
BY JANINE CURR
SYDNEY On February 19, the International Women's Day Collective
debated, for the third time in as many weeks, the question of whether men
should be encouraged to participate in the IWD rally and march on March
10.
The
BY MARCUS PABIAN& TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — About 300 people packed the Trades Hall auditorium on February 20 to oppose the federal government's policy of imprisoning refugees. The meeting, organised by the Refugee Action Collective, demanded that
BY PATRICK BOND
JOHANNESBURG If you had a choice, which city would you choose to
host the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development also known as
Rio+10 in which 60,000 delegates will jaw-jaw about the world's social
and
At 2pm on February 7, Ecuadoran indigenous leaders signed a 23-point
accord with President Gustavo Noboa Bejarano, ending an indigenous uprising
against economic policies imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The uprising started on
ChocolatWith Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Johnny Depp and Lena OlinDirected by Lasse HolstromPalace Cinemas, Sydney, other states to follow
REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM
I saw Chocolat on Valentine's Day. So too, it seemed, did a good
Imagine: a Socialist Vision for the 21st Century
By Tommy Sheridan and Allan McCombes
Canongate Books, Edinburgh, 2001
$21
Available in March from Resistance bookshops (see page 2)
Visit <http://www.dsp.org.au/rb/rb.htm>.
BY BRONWYN POWELL
WOLLONGONG — Three hundred people sat in on Wollongong City Council's February 19 meeting and watched in anger as council approved the first stage of a 428-lot residential development at Sandon Point in Thirroul.
The council
BY MARGARET ALLUM
Human rights advocates are outraged by new legislation redefining the concept "terrorism", allowing for the banning of organisations considered terrorist and reversing the burden of proof, which was passed by the British
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
The Hidden WordsworthBy Kenneth R. Johnston
Pimlico, 2000690 pp, $35.15 (pb)
"I am of that odious class of men called democrats". Could the person who uttered this statement and who supported the Great French Revolution
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