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It's a Free Country: Personal Freedom in America after September 11 Edited by Danny Goldberg, Victor Goldberg and Robert Greenwald RDV Books, 2002 362 pages, $39.95 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON One month after the September 11,
BY PAT POWER Is an Iraqi life of any less value than an American or an Australian life? A US-led attack on Iraq will lead to inevitable loss of life — hundreds, thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens will perish as a result. These are people who
BY DOUG LORIMER DELHI — “Red resistance to saffron subversion” was the central theme of the seventh congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) held November 25-30 in the city of Patna, capital of Bihar state, in
BY NORM DIXON Munyaradzi Gwisai, the revolutionary socialist MP who was elected to Zimbabwe's parliament in 2000 with the backing of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, has been stripped of his seat. Emmerson Mnangagwa, the
BY ANDREW HALL The launch of the revamped Labor Party refugee policy on December 5 has generated a renewed and much-needed debate over the need for a more compassionate refugee policy. Marketed by Labor leader Simon Crean and deputy
PERTH — Seventy-five people dined and wined on a November 30 river cruise on the Swan River. Greetings were presented by trade unionist Craig Johnston and Democratic Socialist Party member Anthony Benbow. The cruise raised $900 for Green Left
Bowling for Columbine Written, produced and directed by Michael Moore Opens December 26 At major cinemas REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM Visiting the Bowling for Columbine web site is more like visiting an activist site than a film
MANILA — Some 20,000 militant workers, together with the urban poor and student youth, celebrated National Heroes Day on November 30 with a vow to “continue Gat Andres Bonifacio's struggle by resisting imperialist globalisation and war”.
Solid lies "The president of the United States and the secretary of defence would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction ... if they did not have a solid basis for saying it" — White House
BY ALISON DELLIT On December 5, ALP federal parliamentarian Carmen Lawrence announced her resignation from the party's shadow cabinet in protest at Labor's new policy on refugees and asylum seekers. In a blistering 20-minute statement, Lawrence
Islam and homosexuality As a supporter of GLW, I am very disappointed that Leon Harrison (GLW #519) is attacking us like a right-wing columnist. It would have been very easy for him to contact myself through GLW, which has my email address and my
Boy Overboard By Morris Gleitzman Puffin Books 144 pages, $14.95 (pb) REVIEW BY ANDREA BLAKE Boy Overboard is a book that tackles the issue of refugees by humanising their experiences. It is written for readers who are 10 years old