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Message to Marxism 2000 from John Pilger

Message to Marxism 2000 from John Pilger I am very sorry and disappointed I can't attend such an important and exciting conference. We have cause for optimism. A little over a year ago, who would have thought Suharto would be history,

Ozomatli: The sound of the United States' future

The sound of the United States' future By Norm Dixon California is infamous for the 1991 bashing of black motorist Rodney King and the 1992 Los Angeles "riot" — in reality a spontaneous uprising — that was triggered when the cops responsible

Philippines women activists appeal for support

Among the Philippines' contingent at the Abortion in Focus conference in Coolum, Queensland, in November were SYLVIA ESTRADA CLAUDIO and ALEXANDRINA MARCELO from the newly formed Reproductive Rights Resource Group. Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's KAMALA EMANUEL

Kosova revisionists let NATO off the hook

By Michael Karadjis "The massacres that never were", ran the headline in the right-wing London Spectator. The article reported claims by journalist John Laughland that "only" hundreds of Albanians had been killed in Kosova during the NATO-Serbia

Ireland's 'gentlemen prisoners'

Out of IrelandBy Christopher KochDoubleday, 1999, 706pp., $39.95 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon During the Great Famine in Ireland from 1847-51, one and a half million Irish people starved to death while millions of pounds worth of food was exported,

NZ unionist killed on picket line

NZ unionist killed on picket line By Murray Addison AUCKLAND — The New Zealand port of Lyttelton, near Christchurch, came to a standstill on January 5 as 250 port workers defied their employer, the Lyttelton Port Company, and walked off the job