BY STEPHEN BENNETTS
FLORENCE Non ho mai visto Firenze cosi bella. Che bello vederla
cosi piena di gente; di solito ci sono solo le bancarelle d'oro e le cartoline.
E che palle! (I've never seen Florence looking so beautiful. How
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BY KIM BULLIMORE
SYDNEY Despite attempts by police to prevent it, an anti-war action
in Bankstown's Old Town Plaza on November 16 attracted 80 people. Initiated
by the Socialist Alliance and the Canterbury-Bankstown Anti-War Group,
the
BY JOHN PILGER
"What passing bells for these who die as cattle?", asked the great WWI poet Wilfred Owen. His famous line might have been written for those who perish in today's secret wars and terrorist outrages.
Owen's generation never used the
Episodes directed by Samira Makhmalbaf, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Sean
Penn, Denis Tanovic, Mira Nair, Shohei Imamura, Amos Gitai, Youssef Chahine,
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Idrissa Ouedrago
Now showing at the Nova and Cinema Europa,
Embryonic research
As the Senate debates embryonic research, it is important to reject the notion that humans have rights simply by virtue of being human.
The point of rights is to promote the interests of rights-holders. A never-sentient embryo
Over the past two months,
life in the Socialist Alliance has been stormy. The International Socialist
Organisation (ISO) threatened to disaffiliate if the Democratic Socialist
Party went ahead with a proposal to its December congress to convert
BY JEFF SHANTZ
TORONTO Greenpeace door
canvassers are used to pounding the pavements. Every evening, they walk
kilometres to spread the Greenpeace message of environmental care. However,
the organisations' canvass workers never expected
Following weeks of massive demonstrations, El Salvador's National Assembly voted on November 14 to ratify a decree that prohibits the privatisation in any form of the national health care system (known as the Salvadoran Social Security Institute,
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — "Building rank-and-file unionism" was the topic of discussion at the first public meeting of the Trade Union Solidarity Committee, which was held on November 19 at Trades Hall. The committee was set up by the Socialist
BY PATRICK BOND
JOHANNESBURG — On November 8, James Kilgore, the last fugitive member of the 1970s US terrorist group, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), was arrested in Cape Town. He was known in South Africa as John Pape, the respected left
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