BY CAROLINE LUND
SAN FRANCISCO — In the largest protest march since the 1991 Gulf War, tens of thousands of Californians demonstrated April 20 against Israel's murderous assault on the Palestinian people. The San Francisco Chronicle estimated "at
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The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish SufferingBy Norman G. FinkelsteinVerso, 2001182 pages, $29.95 (pb)
BY PHIL SHANNON
One of the great ironies (if that isn't too kind a word for it) of the Middle East conflict is
BY AHMAD NIMER
RAMALLAH — Despite widespread reports in the mainstream media that Israeli troops have withdrawn from Palestinian cities (excluding the area around Yasser Arafat's compound and Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity), the Israeli
BY DICK NICHOLS
[At its fifth congress, held April 4-7, Italy's 90,000-member Party of Communist Refoundation (PRC) endorsed a radical left turn. This is the second part of two articles on the congress. The first part appeared in last week's Green
Capitalist 'democracy'
"Venezuelan democracy is no longer threatened by a would-be dictator [now that power has] passed ... to a respected business leader." — New York Times editorial, April 13, welcoming the installation of bosses' federation
BY DICK NICHOLS
MILAN — Question: How can you tell when a general strike really is a general strike and not just the most organised parts of the working class taking a day off? Answer: When it's like the April 16 Italian general strike against
Behind the wiredreams expirestrangled andcongealed in themire of choked livesand hopes and dreams.
Behind the wiredead dreams walkseeking releasefrom all carein the drowning seaof racism's bile.
Behind the wirethe innocents shuffle,sad refuge
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — Insurance industry costs are threatening the delivery of home-birthing services across Tasmania.
The Australian Nursing Federation ordinarily pays insurance fees for nurses as part of their membership fees. In early
Fighting for global justice after M1
The 2001 May 1(M1) blockades of Australias stock exchanges rallied
support for the cancellation of Third World debt and the abolition of institutions
such the World Bank and the International
BY ALISON DELLIT
"If I stole your wallet, and then came up to you and said that it was too late, now that it was stolen, to give it back, and offered you just $15 of the $100 that was in it — would you accept?", Wajma Tapadshah, a member of the
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