REVIEWED BY KEITH MACKIE
When I first read a review of The Star Fraction by Ken McLeod I had to go out and get a copy of it immediately. Described as the first Trotskyist science-fiction novel, it is set in the future, but is an allegory on
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BY PETER BOYLE
At 6pm on Saturday June 9, 24 hours after the detained foreign participants at the Asia Pacific People's Solidarity Conference were first brought to Jakarta's central police HQ, the remaining 30 foreign detainees were allowed to
The police raid on the Asia-Pacific Peoples Solidarity Conference on June 8 was just one more in a string of actions taken by the Indonesian police, often working hand in glove with militia gangs, to push back the democratic space won by the student-led mass movement which forced the resignation of former dictator Suharto in May, 1998.
In a recent "event" put on for the media to highlight cuts to education funding, the Newcastle University Students' Association president and education officer dressed in drag and "prostituted" themselves on Maitland Road, Islington, Newcastle's
BY IGGY KIM
At the invitation of the United Auto Workers, a delegation of South Korean trade unionists visited the United States on June 1-8 to try to stop the sale of Daewoo Motors to US auto giant General Motors.
The delegation was made up of
“Alas, radio and television programming that does not, one program at
a time, promote the life and cohesive development of the entire human family,
destroys it.” — Irving Elmer Bell.
The mind boggles when faced with the stark reality of what
BY FRANZ VANDERPUYE
ACCRA — The campaign by individuals and non-governmental organisations to halt the government of Ghana's policy of privatising the water supply has been intensified, with the formation of the Ghana National Coalition Against
Prescription Games: Money, Ego and Power Inside the Global Pharmaceutical IndustryBy Jeffrey RobinsonSimon & Schuster, 2001343 pages $45 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Up there with the banks in the sheer unadulterated greed stakes would have to be
One of those detained by authorities after the June 8 raid on the Asia-Pacific Solidarity Conference in Jakarta was Auckland city councillor Maire Leadbeater.
The End of Privacy: How Total Surveillance is Becoming a Reality
By Reg Whitaker
Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2000
195 pages.
REVIEW BY ALEXANDER DEL SOL
In The End of Privacy, Reg Whitaker charts the development
of surveillance
The raid by the police at an international conference in Sawangan near Jakarta on Friday [June 8], and the arrest of 40 of the participants, including 32 foreigners, was bizarre, if not disturbing to the conscience.
You could be forgiven thinking
BY DANI BARLEY
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — The headline on the front page read in big bold letters, "8.14 am. It was over". The US federal government has executed Timothy McVeigh, the man who committed the worst act of terrorism on US soil.
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