S11 benefits
CANBERRA — Several hundred people enjoyed two benefit concerts here, on August 19 and 23, to raise funds for the Canberra S11 Alliance. The concerts featured local bands, including Iron Sausage, Recalcitrate, The Bigots, Jedis on
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CUBA: Money has 'tainted' Olympics
The head of Cuba's Olympics committee, Jose Ramon Fernandez, has accused Western commercial influences of corrupting sport. Fernandez, who is also one of the country's vice-presidents, charges that rich countries
Race and class in the US: The duopoly
It's official: Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman are the Democratic Party nominees for president and vice-president of the United States; George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are the Republican Party nominees. The "race
Melbourne Uni students to vote on s11
BY RAY FULCHER
MELBOURNE — Students at Melbourne University will vote on August 31 on whether their student union will support the S11 protests against the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting here on
Spotlight on Indonesia
Massive public transport strike
A strike of some 10,000 public transport drivers paralysed North Sumatra's capital city, Medan, on August 21. The strikers were demanding cheaper spare parts, subsidised fuel and an end to
Oslo
It was said that the Oslo Accord(s) will ease the everyday situation of the Palestinians. However, the Palestinians are not fighting to see everyday life eased, but for the end of Zionist occupation, for the right of return and for the
Globalising women's liberation
BY KATH O'DRISCOLL & NIKKI SULLINGS
Women make up 70% of the world's poor, according to the United Nations Development Program. And "globalisation" (read: global capitalism) is forcing on women ever greater
Around 20,000 people from around the state of Bihar braved torrential rains to march to Parliament Street in Delhi on August 23. The march and rally were organised by the Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) to support demands for an economic
Queensland Labor threatened by electoral fraud
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
BRISBANE — The Queensland Labor Party has landed in hot water after ALP member and Townsville political identity Karen Ehrman, jailed for nine months in early August, alleged
Brandon Astor Jones, the author of the weekly "Looking Out" column in Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, believes that the prison authorities are withholding his personal mail. He usually receives 10 to 50 letters a week, but for the past few months he has been
World Bank admits failure
The World Bank has admitted that a sector adjustment loan for the restructuring
of India's coal industry “has exacted a severe toll on citizens whose lives
ultimately were supposed to have been made better by
Job satisfaction
"I know I can do more for lifting human standards ... than in just about any other job on this planet." — Mike Moore at a meeting of the Canterbury Employers' Chamber of Commerce on August 18, one year since his appointment as
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