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WTO protests: ALP march ban defeated

BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS & LISA MACDONALD SYDNEY — Anti-corporate globalisation and anti-war protesters won a significant victory on November 13-15, when they successfully defied a NSW government ban on protest marches during the

THIRD WORLD: Coffee growers' misery

BY RAISA PAGES Every year, an average of over 400 billion cups of coffee are drunk throughout the world. It is the planet's favourite beverage. In fact, coffee is the second most important raw material in commercial volume, following oil. Coffee

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25 years of activism on show

Stand Up and Fight!Photographs by John EllisNew International Bookshop Gallery, Trades Hall, 54 Victoria Street, Carlton, MelbourneNovember 30-December 21Monday to Friday, 9.30am-6.30 pmSaturdays, 11am-5pm MELBOURNE — This excellent exhibition

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Christmas parade for peace LAUNCESTON — "Peace on Earth and Goodwill to all" — As the US and its allies plan for war on Iraq and asylum seekers in Australia languish in detention, this simple Christmas message couldn't be more relevant.

YEMEN: US commits terrorist outrage

BY ROHAN PEARCE On November 3, six men in Yemen were murdered in cold blood by a US "hellfire" missile launched from a remote-controlled Predator aircraft. The men were "suspected" of being al Qaeda members. The explosion, which obliterated the

Labor supports US-UN war on Iraq

It is a sign of how strong opposition to a war against Iraq has become that the Labor Party federal caucus on November 12 shifted its position slightly. But the shift is an illusion. Come a war, the ALP will almost certainly support it. The ALP now

ITALY: 1 million march against Bush's war on Iraq

JILL HICKSON, documentary filmmaker with Sydney's Actively Radical TV (ARTV), attended the European Social Forum in Florence and participated in the huge anti-war march on November 9. Here is her report. In every direction, all you could see was a

Tasmania to get 'best gay and lesbian laws in the world'

BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — The Tasmanian Labor government announced plans in early November to allow gay and lesbian couples to adopt children and to register their relationships (although not marriages) with the Office of Births, Deaths and

Freedom to travel is a First World privilege

BY SARAH STEPHEN "The young of Australia will not be deterred from travelling in the years ahead... We will continue to live the lives that we regard as the birthright of all Australians." Prime Minister John Howard made these comments during the

VENEZUELA: Chavez looks for an 'axis of good'

BY STUART MUNCKTON Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has answered right-wing commentators who have attacked Brazil's new president, the Workers' Party candidate, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, with the claim that Brazil will, with Venezuela and Cuba,

AMWU Campaign 2003 takes shape

BY SUE BULL MELBOURNE — Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) metal division stewards arrived from all over Victoria to discuss their next enterprise bargaining campaign on November 14. Over 250 stewards gave unanimous support to a