IRAQ: US, Britain bomb civilian targets
IRAQ: US, Britain bomb civilian targets
United States and British warplanes attacked sites in northern Iraq on August 15. This followed heavy bombardment in southern Iraq on August 10-12. The air strikes
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Lucas Heights reactor from 'Dodgy brothers'
BY JIM GREEN
The federal Coalition government has been embarrassed by revelations about Investigaciones Aplicadas (Invap), the Argentinean company contracted to build a nuclear reactor in the southern
Training camp prepares activists for S11
BY MARCEL CAMERON
MELBOURNE — Forty activists attended a lively "socialist training camp" near Ballarat in country Victoria to prepare for the September 11-13 blockade of the World Economic Forum summit
INDONESIA: Workers demonstrate at legislature
Although most of the protests in Jakarta during the
annual session of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR)
were relatively small, the final day of the session, August
18, drew
DILI — Its 4.45pm and the heat is stifling. There is a crowd of students at the door, smiling at me hopefully. Some have travelled miles on foot, on top of buses and in carts to get here. Word had spread that English courses are being offered at
Bribery and big business: making the IOC run
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
The Great Olympic Swindle: When the World Wanted its Games BackBy Andrew JenningsSimon & Schuster, 2000390pp., $22.76 (pb) "And the winner is ... the IOC!" Wild cheering for
'No increased military powers!'
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — Chanting "Tax the rich, not the poor. Money for jobs, not for war!", protesters braved rain to demonstrate their opposition to increased military spending at the federal government's
Mal returns to form
'Tis a delightful irony of Australian politics that Malcolm Fraser should reinvent himself as a radical. Anyone who has been cohabiting with the man within the four walls of Australia these last so many years knows that Big
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — Romawaty Sinaga, the international officer of the militant Indonesian National Front for Workers Struggle (FNPBI), in Australia to meet other trade unionists, has appealed for greater assistance for the emerging independent
RIO BRAVO, TAMAULIPAS — Mexico's new national government of Vicente Fox hasn't taken office yet, but already it confronts its thorniest political problem. This challenge comes not from the country's former governing party, the Institutional
OXFORD, England — Over the past year, European activists have watched large political mobilisations unfold in the United States with keen interest. Although Europe has not recently witnessed a demonstration on the scale of the Seattle anti-World
BASQUE COUNTRY: ETA violence hinders Basque struggle
Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's SARAH PEART spoke to MIKEL ARAVA ETXEZARRETA from the United Left executive in the Basque Country about the state of the struggle for Basque self-determination. Question:
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