COMMENT BY ROBERTO JORQUERA
PERTH According to countless media commentators and letter writers,
the M1 protesters who blockaded stock exchanges around the country were
violent, undemocratic and hypocritical because they were denying
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REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
War Criminals Welcome: Australia, A Sanctuary for War Criminals since 1945By Mark AaronsBlack Inc, 2001649 pp, $34.95 (pb)
When justice minister Amanda Vanstone said that the alleged Latvian war criminal Konrads Kalejs was
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Imagine this: it's 2005, and a fundamentalist Christian regime has come to power in New Zealand. In its effort to consolidate power, it is undertaking a campaign of systematic persecution of all those who have organised against it
BY MARK BROWN
GLASGOW — In a powerful blow against the anti-refugee bigots, the Campaign to Welcome Refugees here held a 200-strong hustings meeting in the city's Moir Hall on May 24. Representatives of all six parties, including the Scottish
BY MARGARET ALLUM
Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair is smug in the knowledge that his government is almost certain of victory in the June 7 British general election. Blair knows that the continuing political impotence of the Tory opposition will
BY ROHAN PEARCE
"CHOGM and the Commonwealth Business Council are the next stops for the anti-corporate movement and we're going take to the streets with a clear message — global justice not global misery", Angela Luvera, Sydney Resistance central
In the Blue HouseBy Meaghan DelahuntBloomsbury, 2001$35 (hb)
REVIEW BY KEVIN WILLIAMSON
There are few historical figures on the left who provoke such controversy, inspiration and opposition as that of the Russian revolutionary leader, Leon
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
SYDNEY â When the 165 employees of Metroshelf in Revesby turned
up for work on June 28 they found security guards standing in front of
the locked gates.
Management told 50 of them that they had been sacked for
BY ADAM MACLEAN
With an eye on countering a rural backlash, the federal Liberal-National
government has announced significant telecommunication policy backflips
in the May 22 budget.
As well as committing itself to not sell off the
BY GILBERT HOLMES
BRISBANE — A determined band of activists are preparing a blockade in an effort to save Brisbane's last piece of inner-city bushland. The two hectares of bushland, known as "The Gully", have received council approval for a
BY SEAN HEALY
A majority of people put more trust in the groups who protest outside the summits of major international institutions to operate in the best interests of society than in the representatives of governments and corporations inside the
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