The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo RevolutionBy CLR JAMESPenguin, 2001364 pp, $22(pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Which country defeated the largest ever invasion force sent by Britain in its colonial heyday? Which country
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BY MARGARITA WINDISCH
MELBOURNE — A lively protest of about 30 anti-sweatshop activists targeted the headquarters of women's clothing retailer Sussan on September 5, parking a huge mobile billboard outside the building featuring a woman throwing
BY SEAN HEALY
Steel fences which barricade off city blocks, police baton charges, the use of tear gas and even live ammunition against protesters may be the most obvious signs of the authorities' attempts to repress, or at least contain, the rising
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — The Australian Industrial Relations Commission has ruled that Yallourn Energy's draft enterprise agreement, known as EB2000, should be adopted as the award governing workers' pay and conditions, despite its rejection in
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The SS St Louis left Hamburg, Germany in May 1939 with 937 Jewish refugees aboard. They had paid $150 each for permission to land in Cuba, a huge sum of money at that time. Most were on a waiting list for entry into the United
BY JON LAND
Fretilin, the party which declared East Timor independent in 1975 and which was the largest single force in the long fight against occupation, has won 57% of the vote in the country's first elections since the end of Indonesian rule —
BY DANIEL KELLY
SYDNEY — Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) workers employed on the waterfront here held a stop work meeting on September 6 over concerns about workplace safety and government plans to replace them with casuals.
BY JANA DK
DILI — In its first major mobilisation since the beginning of East Timor's election campaign, on August 25 some 5000 Timorese Socialist Party members and supporters gathered at Dili's Independence Field for one of the most energetic,
BY MARIA VOUKELATOS
Ngadinah binti Abu Mawardi made Indonesian history on August 30 when she became one of the first workers to defend herself in a court of law and win.
The factory worker, who produces merchandise for giant Western sportswear
Prime Minister John Howard's handling of the crisis aboard the MS Tampa, home to more than 400 asylum seekers for more than a week when the government denied the Norwegian ship permission to allow its passengers onto Australian soil, sparked outrage
BY MAX LANE
Despite protests by human rights groups and large Â鶹´«Ã½ of the legal profession, Indonesia's police are continuing their prosecution of more than 30 people for their political activities.
In the northern province of Aceh, where the
Cuban President Fidel Castro delivered the following address to the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, in Durban, September 1. It has been slightly abridged.
Racism, racial discrimination and
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