Web of Deceit: Britain's Real Role in the WorldBy Mark CurtisVintage, 2003512 pages, $24.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
"We must at all costs maintain control of this oil", Britain's foreign secretary wrote to the US secretary of state in 1956.
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BY NORM DIXON
Noam Chomsky, the distinguished US political scientist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, has attended the 25th Assembly of the Latin American Social Science Council. Addressing the conference on October 29, also
BY TIM COLLINS
It has been nearly 60 years since the world was horrified by the destructive force of the nuclear bombs that were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And it is 50 years since Indigenous communities in South
BY BRYAN SKETCHLEY
A number of recent articles in Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly have carried a common thread of argument for what the anti-war movement needs to be doing now, its strategies and goals. That line of thought was succinctly encapsulated in the
[This message was sent by journalist John Pilger to the October 22 Sydney protest against the visit of US President George Bush.]
This demonstration, and our anger, is not simply directed at a foreign politician we don't like and like to poke fun
BY NORM DIXON
Major contributors to US President George Bush's election war chest have been awarded around US$8 billion in contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Washington-based US Center for Public Integrity (CPI) reported on October 30.
BY ALISON DELLIT
SYDNEY — Around 350 people attended the Sydney Social Forum, held at the city campus of the University of Technology Sydney, on October 24-26.
The forum was launched with a plenary, titled "Is the American empire unstoppable?",
BY ROHAN PEARCE
"The more successful we are on the ground, the more these killers will react", US President George Bush commented after the coordinated detonation of car bombs at four different targets in Baghdad on October 27. "The more progress
BY DOUG LORIMER
Chants of "Hell no, we won't go, we won't fight for Texaco!" and "Hey Bush, we know you, your daddy was a liar, too!" echoed through the streets of downtown Washington on October 25 as around 100,000 people marched in the largest US
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
CANBERRA — US President George Bush's one-day visit to Canberra and the protests against him received widespread coverage in the international news media.
The October 23 protest in Canberra was covered by the three main
BY MARGARITA WINDISCH
MELBOURNE — On October 27, 10,000 construction industry workers marched through the city centre to protest against the first prosecution of a unionist by the Howard government's building industry task force.
In a powerful
BY ALAN MAASS
CHICAGO — "The thing that was really heartening was that under the most difficult conditions that you can imagine, workers were not waiting one minute before they started organising themselves", reported labour journalist David
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