“It would not hurt you to go see someone in prison ... doing so might
put you in touch with your own humanity.”
Moments after hearing a local radio personality reveal unbridled contempt
for prisoners, I wrote a letter, including the words
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 NORTHERN IRELAND: South Armagh — the
militarised zone
BY STUART ROSS
“How many days of normality have you gained because the checkpoints
on the border aren't there anymore, because honest people can go to a pub
or a school or a
BY ALLEN MYERS
PHNOM PENH — With 92 votes in favour and none opposing, the National Assembly on January 2 approved a bill to establish a special court to try former leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime, which was responsible for the deaths of up to
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The Taj Mahal, that tomb of white marble,travels the world on lips of tourists,in books, film, on-line, sent postcards.No other human edifice so exquisitely lovelyfixed the image in all our headsexpressed the royal grief of one man.She died so young
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BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
The December 2000 National Union of Students (NUS) conference held at Ballarat endorsed a motion to support the upcoming May 1 blockades of stock exchanges being built by M1 alliances around the country. The conference also voted
On January 15 the 24th session of the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women began the first of its twice-yearly sessions in UN headquarters in New York — for the next few weeks it will receive and consider
BY FAROOQ TARIQ
In a dramatic political move, the ruling military government has allowed ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif to leave Pakistan for Saudi Arabia with 19 family members. Sharif had been sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for trying to
BY DAVID BACON
BERKELEY — California's experiment with deregulating electricity is on its last legs. "Deregulation is dead", declared Public Utilities Commissioner Carl Wood. And from the governor to the PUC to the legislature, almost everyone
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Two bills, passed into law at the end of 2000, reveal just how thoroughly former militant unionist Premier Jim Bacon has been tamed by business. The workers' compensation act and the industrial relations act have both
You would think that discussions in the Australian capitalist press about politics in the coming year would be exhibiting some excitement.
After all, there is going to be a federal election and several state elections. Most bourgeois economists
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