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MALAYSIA: Penans appeal for international help More than a hundred Penan people, from various settlements in the interior of Sarawak, have gathered at Long Kevok to stage a non-violent protest against sustained logging activities in their communal
Guevara says: Cancel Third World debt! Guevara says: Cancel Third World debt! REVIEW BY FEDERICO FUENTES Hailing from Fairfield, in the heart of working-class Sydney, Guevara is a rebel rock band refusing to write for a commercial market. The
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Why we'll be protesting at the Olympics BY SIMON BUTLER The 400,000-strong reconciliation march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on May 28 demonstrated to the federal Coalition government that a healthy anti-racism sentiment still
Every home should have one I wonder if I could have a few moments of your time? I feel that it is my responsibility sometimes to remind the reading public that a society such as ours goes about its everyday business often with strict regard to
Major donors to the Republican convention Organisation Total to convention Total soft money, PAC & individual contributions Dems Repubs General Motors $1,000,000 $469,665 $126,550 $338,215 Microsoft Corp $1,000,000 $2,282,868 $1,143,014
The current session of Indonesia's parliament, the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), began with much criticism of President Abdurrahman Wahid by politicians and threats that he would be deposed, forced to appoint a prime minister or made to
Join the Democratic Socialist Party By Peter Boyle Four months after the Seattle protests, representatives of Third World governments met in Cuba for the G77 South Summit Conference. Cuban President Fidel Castro's address to that gathering
It is difficult to imagine a more political person, and at the same time a more passionate and caring person, than our departed comrade Joseph Flexer. Socialist Action has lost more than a central leader, more than a brilliant writer, educator and
What the Olympics really celebrate BY ZANNY BEGG The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has spent $230 million on a series of advertisements around the theme "celebrate humanity". This exercise in "global branding" is supposed to encourage us
and ain't i a woman?: 'Where's the freedom?' OAKLAND, US - I'm a seamstress in a factory with 12 other people. We sew children's clothes - shirts and dresses. I've worked in the garment industry [in the United States] for 12 years, and at the
SOUTH AFRICA: Who is bringing the SACP's name into disrepute? The chairperson of the Johannesburg Central branch of the South African Communist Party (SACP), Dale McKinley, was officially notified of his expulsion from the party on August 16. He