RIO BRAVO, TAMAULIPAS — Mexico's new national government of Vicente Fox hasn't taken office yet, but already it confronts its thorniest political problem. This challenge comes not from the country's former governing party, the Institutional
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Demanding reproductive freedom
LISMORE — Twenty-five activists organised by the Southern Cross University Queer Collective held a sit-in at the office of federal National Party MP Ian Causley to oppose the Coalition government's proposed changes
Sacked workers seek action from ALP
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
MELBOURNE — The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian secretary Craig Johnston has called on Victorian Labor Premier Steve Bracks to intervene to prevent the closure of
Media sell us the rope to hang them
BY JODY BETZIEN
MELBOURNE — The planned September 11 protests have become the story of the moment for the corporate media — and the most screaming of the screaming headlines are being devoted to a planned
Brandon Astor Jones, the author of the weekly "Looking Out" column in 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, believes that the prison authorities are withholding his personal mail. He usually receives 10 to 50 letters a week, but for the past few months he has been
Mal returns to form
'Tis a delightful irony of Australian politics that Malcolm Fraser should reinvent himself as a radical. Anyone who has been cohabiting with the man within the four walls of Australia these last so many years knows that Big
Why Pearson is wrong on Aboriginal welfare
BY SIMON BUTLER
Former Labor prime minister Ben Chifley was no radical. He was a staunch supporter of the "white Australia policy" and infamously called in the army to break the coalminers' strike in
Death of Indian Marxist Arvind N. Das
Distinguished Indian Marxist intellectual Arvind N. Das died on August 7, just a month before he would have turned 52, in Amsterdam's Free University Hospital. A fortnight earlier, he had suffered a cardiac
Workers draw line at Godfrey Hirst
BY TIM GOODEN
GEELONG — A two-week strike at the Godfrey Hirst carpet factory looks set to escalate this week with textile workers likely to join members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU)
COMMENT BY JORGE JORQUERA
MELBOURNE — Prime Minister John Howard and Victorian Premier Steve Bracks are now both on record decrying planned September 11 (S11) protests against the World Economic Forum as likely to be "violent". The protest
IRAQ: US, Britain bomb civilian targets
IRAQ: US, Britain bomb civilian targets
United States and British warplanes attacked sites in northern Iraq on August 15. This followed heavy bombardment in southern Iraq on August 10-12. The air strikes
Welfare 'reform' aims to attack the poor
The Coalition government is carrying out a "reform" of the social security, or "welfare", system. This is part of its multifaceted policy for shifting the burden of the problems of the economy onto poor and
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