BY DAVID BACON
RIO BRAVO, TAMAULIPAS — Advocates of the North American Free Trade Agreement promised that free trade would bring a new era of respect for workers rights in all three countries — the United States, Canada and Mexico. Especially
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BY SEAN HEALY
Anti-globalisation protesters demonstrated in their thousands on March 17 in the southern Italian city of Naples against the Global Forum, a meeting of government officials and representatives of the largest information technology
BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — The large turnout of 230 people for a March 17 dinner and public meeting here on issue "Free Aceh, Referendum now!" is an indication of growing interest in the struggle in Aceh among the Australian public.
The event was
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — The thirst for information, discussion and debate about issues facing the world's people and ecology in the era of neo-liberal globalisation was strongly evident at a "Fighting for the Future" conference held in Sydney
The article on the Guerrilla Girls in the last issue of Green Left Weekly mistakenly stated that Guerrilla Girls' spokesperson "Frida Kahlo" had been interviewed while in Sydney. In fact, Kahlo was in New York. She spoke to Green Left Weekly's Zanny
The Laramie ProjectBy Moises KaufmanBelvoir Street Theatre, SydneyUntil April 15
REVIEW BY MARK STOYICH
In 1998, near the town of Laramie in the US state of Wyoming, two young men tortured a young gay man, Matt Shepard, and left him for dead. The
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — Royal Air Force pilots have protested for the first time about their role in the bombing of Iraq. Pilots patrolling the so-called no-fly zone in the north of the country have spoken angrily about how they have been ordered
A former member of the Labour Party's national executive committee, Liz Davies, has announced her resignation from the Labour Party after two decades of membership, and declared her support for the Socialist Alliance and other left candidates in the
BY ROBERTO JORQUERA
PERTH — Organisers of the M1 blockade of the Australian Stock Exchange here have added an end-of-day march to state parliament house to their plans. The new Labor state government of Geoff Gallop will be sworn in on that day.
Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans KnewBy Richard BreitmanPenguin, 2000325pp., $21 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
It was "the greatest and most horrible crime ever committed in the whole history of the world",
REVIEW BY MARK STOYICH
Up For GrabsBy David WilliamsonSydney Theatre CompanyDrama Theatre, Sydney Opera HouseUntil April 21
Up For Grabs is ostensibly about the art market, but it is full of the usual gossip about the Sydney social types that
BY GREG HARRIS & MARGARET ALLUM
With Westminster elections likely to be called for May 3, Tony Blair's British Labour Party appears to be reaching the limits of government by image management. Leaving aside questions of ministerial competence and
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