BY DEANNA SWIFT
GENEVA, Switzerland — Ever since the disastrous "Battle of Seattle" in 1999, the World Trade Organisation has been trying to remake its image, trading in the persona of global tyrant for that of a "hip", "with it" agent of change.
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BY JIM GREEN & SEAN HEALY
In just six months as "globocop", United States President George W. Bush has pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions, sabotaged the Biological Weapons Convention, sped ahead missile "defence" plans
Aston I
Make up your mind Â鶹´«Ã½. Your editorial on July 25 is headed "Why nobody won in Aston", and then it goes on to say that the Greens' preference policy handed the Liberals a propaganda victory.
Shouldn't your headline then have been:
BY EVA CHENG
Fifty-six years ago, on August 6, 1945, the US dropped a nuclear bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, killing and maiming hundreds of thousands of people. On August 6, 1991, under the cover of the United Nations, the US did it again — it
The ouster of President Abdurrahman Wahid and his replacement by Megawati Sukarnoputri has opened up a new, and likely volatile, era in Indonesia.
Reprinted here, in abridged form, is an interview with Budiman Sudjatmiko, the prominent and
BY CHRISTOPHER PERKINS
WOLLONGONG — Illawarra TAFE library unionists and their supporters staged two spirited demonstrations against job cuts and work casualisation on August 2. The NSW Labor minister for education, John Aquilina, was in the
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Small Comrades: Revolutionising Childhood in Soviet Russia 1917-1933By Lisa KirschenbaumRoutledgeFalmer, 2001232 pages, $45.10 (pb)
"Thank you, Comrade Stalin, for our happy childhood", proclaimed the poster that hung in
BY SEAN WALSH
MELBOURNE — Anti-Nike protesters have held the most colourful and energetic demonstration this city has seen since the S11 blockade of the World Economic Forum. Swelling to 250 people, the August 3 protest was the 19th weekly
The pen pushed to your lips —
mute whore, silent gigolo...
It was after the rocks fell
and fire replaced the sky
that the sun slipped, invisible,
into the story around it:
War looks beautiful here.
Too violent for
BY SEAN HEALY
An Italian police officer has confirmed eyewitness reports that the brutal July 21 raid on the headquarters of groups protesting the G8 summit of world leaders in Genoa was an act of vengeance ordered by higher authorities.
Speaking
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
SMITHTON — On August 1, in the largest farmer protest in Tasmania's history, 500 potato farmers and their supporters converged with tractors, trucks and other farm equipment on the McCain factory in Smithton. The blockade
BY VIV MILEY
The number of casual staff in Australian universities has more than doubled since 1990, a report by the Australian Vice-Chancellors, Committee has revealed.
The report, released on July 20, showed that the proportion of casual
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