BY EVA CHENG
The first Asia-wide "social forum" was held in Hyderabad, India, on January 2-7. It was attended by at least 15,000 people. The Asian Social Forum (ASF) was intended to be the Asian extension of the World Social Forum (WSF), which has
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BY
MICK BULL
MELBOURNE — Victorian state secretary of the Construction, Forestry,
Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), Martin Kingham, has urged all trade unions
to participate in an afternoon rally on the day that the US launches its
war
BY MALIK MIAH& JENNIFER BIDDLE
SAN FRANCISCO — How could the biggest airline in the world, with the most enviable route structure, largest and most diverse fleet, employing over 100,000 workers — an airline that made US$8 billion in net profit
BY PIP HINMAN
When Indonesian judge Asril Marwan on December 30 sentenced Joy-Lee Sadler to four months' jail and Lesley McCulloch to five months, he declared that McCulloch should have received a harsher sentence because her actions "could have
BY
MARG PERROTT
A delegation of doctors representing the Australian Medical Association
for Prevention of War (MAPW) delivered a “Prescription for Peace” to Prime
Minister John Howard at his Kirribilli home on January 12.
The prescription,
BY PAUL OBOOHOV
CANBERRA — The corporate media on January 14 and 15 denounced new
“flexible” leave conditions contained in the latest industrial agreement
for employees of the federal Department of Education, Science and Training
(DEST).
Hundreds of thousands of people in the United States mobilised on January
18 to oppose a US-led war on Iraq. A crowd estimated at between 100,000
and 200,000 rallied and marched in Washington. They listened to the radical
British band
REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN
Poetry by Mohsen Soltani ZandVocals by Annette Hughes, Yvette Duncan and Jane CamachoMusic by Geoffrey Datson$20, order at <www.stickylabel.com.au/mohsen.html> or <http://www.chilout.org>Send cheque or
BY
EVA CHENG
Four years ago, Malaysia's Registrar of Societies (ROS) turned down
the Malaysian Socialist Party's (PSM) application to be an officially registered
party. A subsequent appeal to the Home Ministry was turned down. In September
Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil FireBy Jack DoyleEnvironmental Health Fund, BostonAvailable for free download at <http://www.shellfacts.com>Hard copies can be ordered from Gary Cohen, Environmental Health Fund, 41
Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit
of Labor's Last Century
by Howard Zinn, Dana Frank, Robin DG Kelley
Beacon Press, 2001
174 pages, $34.50 (pb)
Three Strikes: Labor's Heartland Losses and What They Mean
Anti-war activists around the world have been inspired by two train drivers who, on January 8, refused to drive a freight train from Glasgow to the Glen Douglas NATO base on Scotland's west coast. The drivers believed the train was carrying
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