BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — The "liberation" of Iraq is a cruel joke on a stricken people. The Americans and British, partners in a great recognised crime, have brought down on the Middle East, and much of the rest of the world, the prospect of
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Venceremos Victor, We shall overcomeVenceremos Victor, We shall overcomeThe never ending spectre, of your stirring New SongOur source and our protector, that keeps us so strong.
Your mother's warm resilience, was scorched into your soulWith justice
REVIEW BY DANNY FAIRFAX
One No, Many Yeses: A Journey to the Heart of the Global Resistance MovementBy Paul KingsnorthEarthlight 2003$24.95 (Pb)
Former deputy editor of the British Ecologist magazine Paul Kingsnorth set himself an ambitious task
BY CHRIS SLEE
Dr Joe Toscano has worked as a doctor in private practice for 21 years and is joint national coordinator of Defend and Extend Medicare (DEM), a group initiated in Victoria but aiming to extend nation-wide. Toscano spoke with Green
BY EVA CHENG
On August 30, on the eve of the September 10-14 World Trade Organisation ministerial summit in Cancun, Mexico, the US government succeeded in having the WTO issue a "breakthrough" draft agreement that it claims will allow poor
BY BRONWYN POWELL
In a crackdown on political activists at Sydney University, two people have been arrested and a Resistance stall shut down in the space of two weeks.
On August 25, Lian Jevey, an activist in Socialist Alternative, was arrested
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
SYDNEY — Martin Kingham, the Victorian secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), was a keynote speaker at a Socialist Alliance organised trade union seminar held in Parramatta on August 30.
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Fourteen refugees from the MV Tampa, released from behind the barbed wire of the Nauru detention camp, were welcomed by supporters of refugees' rights when they arrived at Brisbane airport on September 3.
The 14 Afghan
BY DALE McKINLEY
JOHANNESBURG — Johannesburg Water Company (JOWCO) has embarked on a program of installing pre-paid water meters throughout Soweto, as part of "Operation Gcin'amanzi". The move is being resisted by the community.
JOWCO claims it
BY SUE BOLTON
An attempt by trade unionists working in the Pilbara mines in Western Australia to end rivalries between their unions, to present a united face to the mining industry bosses, has been sabotaged by the Australian Workers Union.
At
BY JORGE JORQUERA
My only vivid childhood memories are from Chile in September 1973 — the gunfire, the burning of documents and the waiting. Like thousands of Chilean workers, my father did not return home from work on the afternoon of September
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — A statement issued by Queensland Teachers Union members in the Socialist Alliance has sparked considerable discussion among teachers in this state.
Teachers are currently voting on whether to accept the government's
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