On March 29, a Canadian judge dealt a crushing blow to farmers' rights by ruling that Percy Schmeiser, a third-generation Saskatchewan farmer, must pay Monsanto thousands of dollars for violating the gene giant's monopoly patent on genetically
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REVIEW BY NICK EVERETT
No LogoBy Naomi KleinHarper-Collins, 2000490pp., A$21.95
"A world united by Benetton slogans, Nike sweatshops and McDonald's jobs might not be anyone's utopian village", writes Canadian journalist Naomi Klein, "but its
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — As well as state governments trying to slash workers rights to fair compensation for injury, the federal government is aiming to push through its own attacks that will affect 285,655 commonwealth public sector and ACT
BY EVA CHENG
The state machines of the First World are prepared to go to enormous lengths to crush political dissent — if Canadian police's cold-blooded and calculated attacks on peaceful protesters in Quebec City are anything to go by. But to no
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Ph 9565 5522. Visit <http://www.channel31.org> for
BY MAX LANE
On April 23 a new organisation was established in Jakarta to campaign in solidarity with the Acehnese people. The organisation, Solidarity Movement for the People of Aceh (SEGERA), was formed in response to the issuance of Presidential
BY JIM GREEN
The Australian government has been the main accomplice of the United States in its efforts to kill the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions.
The US government's strategy was spelt out in an April 1 state department cable to US
BY SEAN HEALY
The military dictatorship of General Pervaiz Musharraf has arrested hundreds of oppositionists in an attempt to prevent them staging a pro-democracy protest on May Day in Karachi, Pakistan's main port and largest city.
Police and
BY JULIAN COPPENS
QUEBEC CITY — For three days, from April 20-22, this city was filled with the spirit of revolution and CS gas. The Summit of the Americas had come to town — and so too had tens of thousands determined to stop its plans for
Breaking the Banks: the Impact of the Asian Development Bank and Australia's Role in the Mekong RegionBy Jonathan Cornford and Michael SimonCAA-Oxfam Australia, 2001$17.95
REVIEW BY MELANIE GILLBANK
Breaking the Banks is a timely publication from
BY JON LAND
In the wake of the second round of negotiations between Australia and East Timor on the Timor Gap Treaty and the disputed seabed boundary, Australia's big business press are stepping-up its support for Canberra's push to deny East Timor
"Violence against women — it's against all the rules" is the name of the adverts broadcast on commercial radio and displayed on the back of buses on behalf of the NSW attorney-general's department.
The campaign is targeted at young men and
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