420

BY PIP HINMAN SYDNEY — In debates on workers' struggles against corporate globalisation, not a lot has been heard from community and trade union leaders from the Third World. However at the Globalisation and Corporate Tyranny seminar here on
A day in the life, on Georgia's death row #4 I am sharing another important letter-writing day with you. It is obvious to me that the prison administration is well aware of the content of this letter via the governor's office. Perhaps you, my
More than 4000 people from around the world are expected to attend the Second World Meeting of Friendship and Solidarity with Cuba to be held in Havana, November 9-14. The five-day conference has been organised by the Cuban government to bring
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS SYDNEY — Journalists, photographers and artists at the highly profitable John Fairfax Holdings, publishers of the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Financial Review, Business Review Weekly, some regional and

Ever wanted an accurate description of Cuba's socialist democracy? Or to know how the Cuban People's Power structures work? Then this is the book for you.

Oppose corporate tyrannyResistance Books, 2000$5.95, 58pp. REVIEW BY JONATHAN STRAUSS Oppose corporate tyranny: why the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO should be abolished is about the corporate takeover of the planet and the international
BY NORM DIXON The federal Labor "opposition" on September 7 voted with Coalition government senators to pass the Defence Legislation Amendment (Aid to Civilian Authorities) Bill. The law hands sweeping powers to the federal government to deploy
BY JO ELLIS AND PETER JOHNSTON DARWIN — Darwin City Council has made a significant concession to the distributors of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly. Council said that it will reconsider later this year the fees applying to "low impact uses" of public places
BY HELEN BRANSGROVE& OWEN RICHARDS SYDNEY — "Waiting is the greatest punishment in life." With these words, Maqsood Alshams encapsulated the plight of refugees held in Australian detention centres. Alshams, a member of the Refugees Action
BY RICHARD PITHOUSE DURBAN, South Africa — Together with the bunnychow (see the glossary for a translation of South Africanisms), the spliff and the palm tree, life in Durban includes AmaZion trance dancing on traffic circles. So it's rather
Here, too “Anywhere else in the world this would be seen as a first-class opportunity for the leaders of the country.” — International Olympic Committee vice-president Kevan Gosper, on corporations providing Olympic handouts to politicians.
The war against Iraq continues its deadly course. This small nation of 20 million people has been singled out for inhuman punishment yet the world's press has been largely silent. An entire nation has suffered a decade of starvation and