BY SARAH CLEARY
"Got pissed off and ripped Pamela Lee's tits off/And smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross ..." — so go the lyrics of popular rap artist Eminem's "My name is", a song that has been receiving high
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BY LINDA WALDRON
LAHORE — More than 200 activists of the Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) activists, members of other opposition parties, community activists and unionists packed the Lahore Press Club here on April 2 to welcome LPP general secretary
BY FALEH A. JABAR
The once moribund Iraqi National Congress (INC) has apparently gained a new lease on life. After weeks of intensive talks in Washington, Ahmad Chalabi — leader of the self-appointed Iraqi opposition in exile — visited Iran to
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IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful CorporationBy Edwin Black Little, Brown and Company, 2001519pp., $30 (pb)
IBM, as it delights in telling us, is the "Solutions
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE — Beautiful slides of Cuba were a highlight of a solidarity night held at the Resistance Centre on March 31. The slides were taken by Tim Stewart during his January-February visit to Cuba on the "In the Footsteps of Che"
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — The ACT Trades and Labor Council has decided to back the planned M1 blockade of Mining Industry House and to move its traditional May Day march from the following Saturday, May 5, to May 1 itself.
The TLC voted at its
BY KAREN FREDERICKS
BRISBANE — The decision to blockade the Australian Stock Exchange was the subject of much debate here at the March 31 "Fighting for the Future" conference, with some arguing that the movement needed to be more positive in its
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
BRISBANE — The International Women's Day collective here has launched
a petition campaign to demand that Peter Beattie's Labor state government
repeal Â鶹´«Ã½ of the criminal code which make abortion illegal.
The
BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
Thousands of students took to the streets on April 5 in a national day of action called by the National Union of Students. Students and supporters demanded an end to corporate control of universities, a liveable income for all,
Immigration minister Philip Ruddock's proposed law to allow strip searches
of refugees, increase prison terms for those that flee detention and further
restrict visitor access to detention centres are a disgrace.
Their introduction into
BY SARAH PEART
MELBOURNE — Activists here have begun to consider what should happen after the M1 blockade of stock exchanges, with many participants in a "Global Action" conference here on March 31 welcoming a proposal for a September 11, 2001,
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