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BY KATHLEEN SCOTT SYDNEY — "The people have saved Callan Park — the danger is now demolition by neglect", read the billboards dotted around the much-loved and valuable heritage site in Sydney's inner west. Callan Park is a vital resource, a
BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI PERTH — In May, a split occurred in the Perth NOWaR Alliance, the main city-wide anti-war organising body. Since then those who left the NOWaR Alliance have built towards the formation of a WA Peace Network. The first "public"
BY ROHAN PEARCE While it is still unclear who was behind the August 29 death of Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al Hakim, killed along with 100 Shiites by a car bomb as they left the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf, the assassination has proved to be another
BY DOUG LORIMER On August 31, Peter McPherson, a former Bank of America executive, close friend of US Vice-President Dick Cheney and, today, the top US economic "adviser" in Iraq, announced that the US-dominated Coalition Provisional Authority
BY CHRIS LATHAM FREMANTLE — Chris Cain, the recently elected Western Australian secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), spoke at an August 30 Politics in the Pub discussion on defending militant unions against the attacks of federal
BY TOM FLANAGAN &MATT EGAN LISMORE — On September 17, teachers in NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia are scheduled to take strike action. Tough stands by state Labor governments against teachers' pay demands have provoked this
BY JOHN PILGER LONDON — The "liberation" of Iraq is a cruel joke on a stricken people. The Americans and British, partners in a great recognised crime, have brought down on the Middle East, and much of the rest of the world, the prospect of
Venceremos Victor, We shall overcomeVenceremos Victor, We shall overcomeThe never ending spectre, of your stirring New SongOur source and our protector, that keeps us so strong. Your mother's warm resilience, was scorched into your soulWith justice
BY CHRIS SLEE Dr Joe Toscano has worked as a doctor in private practice for 21 years and is joint national coordinator of Defend and Extend Medicare (DEM), a group initiated in Victoria but aiming to extend nation-wide. Toscano spoke with Green
REVIEW BY DANNY FAIRFAX One No, Many Yeses: A Journey to the Heart of the Global Resistance MovementBy Paul KingsnorthEarthlight 2003$24.95 (Pb) Former deputy editor of the British Ecologist magazine Paul Kingsnorth set himself an ambitious task
BY EVA CHENG On August 30, on the eve of the September 10-14 World Trade Organisation ministerial summit in Cancun, Mexico, the US government succeeded in having the WTO issue a "breakthrough" draft agreement that it claims will allow poor
BY BRONWYN POWELL In a crackdown on political activists at Sydney University, two people have been arrested and a Resistance stall shut down in the space of two weeks. On August 25, Lian Jevey, an activist in Socialist Alternative, was arrested