BY BARRY SHEPPARD
SAN FRANCISCO — Editorial writers and TV talking heads have deplored the recall election of Governor Gray Davis in California as anti-democratic and a joke. Californian law allows for a recall election of officials if enough
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BY BILL TULLY
CANBERRA — One of the Canberra Sunday Times supplements of August 24 was a 16-page pictorial panorama, "Recovery: Canberra's journey from the ashes of January 18". At the beginning of August, however, the official "Inquiry into the
TARIQ ALI is a long-time political activist, author and socialist. In the 1960s and '70s, he was a leading figure in the British movement against the US war against the people of Vietnam. He is currently an editor of the New Left Review. Ali spoke
Why Do People Hate America?By Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn DaviesIcon Books, $21 (pb)
REVIEW BY DAVE RILEY
If you have ever wondered why the United States ("America") is hated around the world, then maybe you did come down in the last shower.
BY MICHAEL SHAIK
On August 12, a 40-day ceasefire was shattered by two Palestinian suicide bombings in Rosh Ha'ayin in northern Israel and the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the West Bank. Two Israelis were killed and 13 wounded in the attacks. The
BY DYLAN FERGUSON& LESLIE RICHMOND
ADELAIDE — After months of diluted information, stalls and community consultations few and far between, the Coastal Protection Board (CPB) is set to go ahead with a planned experimental breakwater at Semaphore.
The following speech was presented by LEONEL VIVAS, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's ambassador to Australia, to the August 2 "Latin America: New Movements of Resistance and Transformation" conference in Sydney, organised by the Committees in
BY BUSTER SOUTHERLEY
AUCKLAND — The New Zealand Herald newspaper has sacked its award-winning cartoonist following a censorship row. Malcolm Evans was dismissed after drawing cartoons criticising the Israeli government's treatment of the
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — On August 17, nearly 100 people attended a meeting at Trades Hall to launch of the Fair Go campaign. The meeting was sponsored by a coalition of groups including the Victorian Trades Hall Council (VTHC), the Ethnic
BY JUDY McVEY
Thousands of people around Australia marched on World Refugee Day in June. Even war on Iraq could not stop the development of this movement. In fact, more people have shown sympathy for refugees because of the war and the government's
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