Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US, President George Bush's speechwriters have never been shy about employing grand, bombastic turns of phrase. The commentators of the corporate media treat his empty and dishonest phraseology as profoundly important. Despite the White House's deceptions in the lead-up to the Iraq war and the continuing lie that Iraq is being 鈥渓iberated鈥, Bush's November 6 announcement of Washington's 鈥渘ew policy鈥 鈥 鈥渁 forward strategy of freedom in the Middle East鈥 鈥 was not greeted with the derision it deserved.
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BY ROBYN MARSHALL
BRISBANE 鈥 African-American socialist Angela Davis called for the abolition of all prisons during a public lecture at the University of Queensland on November 27. Davis was attending the international conference on Women in
BY JOHN FRAME
An acclaimed documentary film-maker, Arthur Dong has released his first DVD project. The three-disc collection is titled Stories from the War on Homo Sexuality, and contains three of Dong's feature-length films: Coming Out Under Fire
International anti-war campaigner and radical left author Tariq Ali will be speaking at a 91自拍论坛 Weekly sponsored public meeting "Resistance and empire" at UNSW's Clancy Auditorium on the evening of Friday, March 19 next year. Booking for the
BY NICK FREDMAN
The Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) currently being negotiated between Canberra and Washington has been criticised as attacking the interests of working people and the environment. However, much of the
SYDNEY 鈥 The Australian Arabic Communities Council (AACC) has criticised the decision of the NSW government's Powerhouse Museum to remove parts of the Treasures of Palestine exhibition following representations by pro-Israel organisations.
It was
BY RICHARD FIDLER
OTTAWA 鈥 The past year has been a busy one for a new left-wing party, the Union des Forces Progressistes (UFP 鈥 Union of Progressive Forces) in Quebec, Canada's French-speaking province.
Founded in 2002, the party fielded
BY AARON BENEDEK& MEGAN CONNOR
SYDNEY 鈥 Fifty workers at the Insulation Solutions factory in the western suburb of Lidcombe went on strike on November 28. It was in response to more than four months of management opposition to their demand for a
BY JORGE JORQUERA
What would people think of Ernesto "Che" Guevara if he were around today? This leader of the 1959 Cuban revolution was anything but a moderate. He believed with extreme passion in the beautiful possibilities of humankind. Many
BY SARAH STEPHEN
In the two months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, University of NSW academic Kevin Dunn compiled a study on racism in Australia. More than half of the 5000 people surveyed said that they would be concerned about a relative
BY PATRICK BOND
JOHANNESBURG 鈥 On November 19, the African National Congress (ANC) government finally conceded that it must begin providing anti-retroviral (ARV) medicines to hundreds of thousands of people who are HIV-positive. Activists hope
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon PapersBy Daniel EllsbergPenguin, 2003500 pages, $38(pb)
On the evening of October 1, 1969, Daniel Ellsberg left the Rand Corporation offices in California after a busy day. His
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