BY JORGE JORQUERA
MELBOURNE — The World Economic Forum (WEF) will hold its Asia Pacific Economic Summit here on September 11-13. Hundreds of top corporate executives and political leaders will meet to discuss the global implementation of
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The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost WarBy Paul HendricksonVintage, 2000427pp, $19.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon
In his 1995 memoirs, Robert McNamara, US secretary of defence
The following speech by SHEMAL ALI from the Worker Communist Party of Iraq (WCPI) was presented to the 120 participants at the May Day toast at the Granville Town Hall on May 6, jointly sponsored by the Sydney west branch of the Democratic Socialist
Ford wins greenwash award
Ford Motor Company has won Corporate Watch (US)'s Earthday 2000 Greenwash Award, for the transnational corporation which best managed to bury its polluting record under mountains of "environmental" advertising and public
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, 9-11pm. Ph 9565 5522.
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The role of the International Monetary Fund in determining economic policy in Indonesia came under the spotlight after the 1997 economic crisis. In the wake of the crisis, the Suharto, Habibie and then the Wahid regimes surrendered virtually all
BY ANA KAILIS
PERTH — Recently, the Western Australian branch of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) decided to discontinue the appointment of Sarah Harris to its delegation to the WA Trades and Labor Council (now known as Unions WA).
BY CHRIS SPINDLER
MELBOURNE — Refusing to accept the outcome in an election for Victorian state secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, the backers of defeated incumbent Julius Roe have obtained a court injunction preventing the
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Earlier protests
Defining the beginnings of social movements and who started them is fraught with uncertainties. Â鶹´«Ã½ has published a theory about anti-nuclear movements and the anti-Vietnam War movement in Australia.
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International news briefs
Sri Lankan left demonstrates against the war
COLOMBO — On May 25, 3000 people participating in a demonstration called by the People's Liberation Front, the Nava Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) and the Muslim United Liberation
Letter from Ethiopia
I hesitate to attempt an analysis of the hostilities between Ethiopia and Eritrea, but, from the day the conflict began two years ago, I have watched with growing horror the waste of tens of thousands of young lives only nine
Kurdish refugees in Turkey need help
The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees has called on the United Nations High Commission for Refugees to cease its stalling on granting refugee status to thousands of people who have fled from Iraqi
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