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Adolf Hitler deserves a smile By Dave Riley Adolf Hitler was no arsehole. It's true. He had a sweet tooth, was fond of eggs and neither smoked cigarettes nor drank alcohol. He loved Wagnerian opera and refused to eat meat. So what's a
Goss cuts Aboriginal control By Mick White BRISBANE — Les Malezer, the former head of the Goss government's Aboriginal Affairs Department, has resigned in protest at its restructuring. On March 16, he warned that the new Office of
By Lisa Renfrey SYDNEY — What are the prospects for socialism today? Is Marxism still relevant — either in theory or as a guide to action for grassroots campaigners? How are movement activists around the world relating to and using socialist
By Kim Moody If someone told you that the leaders of 125 nations had agreed to let 1000 or so transnational corporations take over the world and legitimise forced child labour, industrial home work, sweat shops and maybe even the "foreign
Leila and the Wolves — Heiny Srour's controversial film draws on Arab oral tradition to explore the collective memory of Arab women and their hidden role in the history of Lebanon and Palestine. SBS, Friday, March 31, noon. Taxi Driver —
By Pip Hinman Conservationists have condemned the federal government for failing to come up with a concrete greenhouse gas reduction strategy before an international conference on climate change in Berlin beginning on March 27. Recent
A word's history By Brandon Astor Jones "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content ... according to the circumstances and time in which it is used." —
As this is written, the people of NSW are going to the polls to elect a state government. Whichever of the two parties wins the elections, the voters will be the losers. Both Labor and Liberal are committed to cutting services, persecuting youth and
Hemingway Phil Shannon's review of James R. Mellow's Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences (GLW #180 22/3/95) is an unwitting regurgitation of the strategy of the reactionary literati to try yet again to defame their old enemy: Ernest
MELBOURNE — A new anti-privatisation group, Public First, was launched here on March 6. About 30 different organisations, including trade unions, church groups, welfare groups and environmentalists, are involved in the campaign to prevent the sale
By Sonny Melencio Protests are escalating across the Philippines over the hanging of Flor Contemplacion, 42, overseas worker, in Singapore on March 17. The body of Contemplacion was flown to her home town, San Pablo City, where it lay in wake
Partners in Turkey's crime The US and its NATO allies are displaying extraordinary hypocrisy in their support for Turkey's massive military incursion into southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq). US officials have justified the Turkish operation as