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Stealing Colombia's resources through brute force

The Profits of Extermination: How US Corporate Power is Destroying ColombiaBy Francisco Ramierez CuellarIntroduction and translation by Aviva ChomskyCommon Courage Press141 pages, $20Order via <info@commoncouragepress.com> REVIEW BY BARRY

An insight into Castro's youth

Fidel: My Early YearsBy Fidel CastroOcean Press, 2005198 pages, $16.95 (pb) REVIEW BY OWEN RICHARDS Cuba supporters everywhere were heartened by the immense success of the Walter Salles film adaptation of Che Guevara's The Motorcycle Diaries,

Locked-out Boeing workers demand collective agreement

Ruth Ratcliffe, Newcastle The federal Coalition government's Defence White Paper in 2000 described the FA-18 fleet as the single most important component of Australia's defence infrastructure. Yet the workers who maintain the jets at Williamtown

SHOCKFACTS: Individual contracts

One of the federal Coalition government's proposed industrial relations changes will allow bosses to force workers onto individual contracts that cut pay and reduce conditions to just five minimum standards. Workers who refuse to sign individual

Waging war in Afghanistan won't stop terrorism

Doug Lorimer On July 13, Prime Minister John Howard announced that the federal Coalition government had decided to send Australian troops back to Afghanistan to help prop up the regime of US puppet President Hamid Karzai, in the face of a

Police attack Camp Platypus

Jim McIlroy, Brisbane At dawn on July 12, 130 police officers invaded the site of Camp Platypus on the banks of the Obi Obi Creek, in the small Sunshine Coast hinterland town of Maleny, to evict 60 protesters who had occupied the area of a

GLW discussion list approaches 700

Back in March, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly email discussion list had touched 500 subscribers, The list is now approaching 700 subscribers. While all subscribers don't necessarily read all posts and attention to the exchanges varies, this nonetheless

Back in March, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly email discussion list had touched 500 subscribers, The list is now approaching 700 subscribers.