UNITED STATES: 'The poor will not be disappeared'
PHILADELPHIA — While the smug elite of the US Republican Party gathered here in plush hotels and a huge new convention centre to celebrate their wealth and to anoint two rich white men to lead
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CISLAC campaigns against US aid
As US interference in Colombia has increased, now including a massive aid package to the Colombian military, Committees In Solidarity with Latin America and the Caribbean (CISLAC) made the decision at its June
Feel good
"Black ink makes people feel there is a cover-up. To make readers feel good, the censored parts will be whited out ..." — A Thai defence ministry spokesperson on plans to re-censor a highly censored report on the crushing of the 1992
Earlier this summer, a comprehensive school student from the north-east was refused a place at Oxford University, despite having exceptionally high examination grades. The Labour Party, in a populist outburst which even by their standards of cynicism
Bondi speak-out on Olympic deceit
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
SYDNEY — Riding the wave of protest against the volleyball stadium on Bondi Beach and against the numerous evictions imposed by profiteering property owners in the area, a lively speak-out
Four-year battle for reproductive rights
BY LISA YOUNG AND PAM CURRIE
BRISBANE — With women's reproductive and abortion rights under attack across the country, Queensland activist and mother of three Jennifer Morgan is leading the struggle to
[This week's Life of Riley column defers to this profile of one of the great puppeteers of our time. Gepeto was among 280 protestors arrested by police outside the US Republican Party convention in Philadelphia last week. — Dave Riley.]
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Defiant history of workers' theatre movement
Defiance: Political Theatre in Brisbane 1930-1962By Connie HealyBoombana Publications$21.90, 256 pp REVIEW BY DAVE RILEY
This may seem like an obscure subject. Who nowadays is interested in theatre
BY DAMIEN LAWSON
SYDNEY — With no media attention or public discussion, the federal Coalition government is using the Olympics to justify sweeping new powers which allow the military to suppress domestic unrest in Australia. Under the pretext of
PAKISTAN: 'No more Hiroshimas'
LAHORE — A seminar on the theme "No More Hiroshimas" was organised jointly by Lahore Peace Forum and Joint Action Committee for Peoples Rights on August 6 at Lahore Press Club. Despite severe rain, more than 200
BY JIM GREEN
Welcome to the world of the conservative think tank, a world in which modern forestry "helps preserve wildlife habitat", "radioactive waste has a great advantage over other kinds of waste", "a camel is a horse designed by a committee",
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