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BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — The state Labor government has a plan to close schools in Tasmania, disguised by the promise that "no school will be forced to close". The value of this promise is revealed by the dispute that has erupted over the plan
During television coverage of the Olympic Games, the first of three US-only Nike advertisements aired. US TV viewer Brian Anastasi described one of the ads on the AriseAction email discussion list: "[It opens] with a woman taking her shirt off,
HYDERABAD — A rally on September 17 demanded the reinstatement of sacked workers at different sugar mills in Sind. The rally, organised by Labour Party Pakistan, started from Beldia Chouk and ended at the Hyderabad Press club building.
More than
BY STEPHEN O'BRIEN
NEWCASTLE — The Che Guevara sign, which hangs at the front of Newcastle's new Resistance Centre, was formally switched on on September 22.
Abelardo Cueto Sosa, a member of the International Relations Department of the Central
BY BILL NEVINS
TAOS, New Mexico — John Trudell, founder/leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the 1970s, is now a movie star (Thunderheart and Smoke Signals), a recording artist (with albums Graffiti Man and his latest, Blue Indians),
The Ministry of Information and security forces of the Iranian government have summoned the president of the Saqqez bakers' union, Mahmoud Salehi, back to prison.
Last year, Salehi and four other members of the union were imprisoned for four months
BY SUE BOLAND
Blockades and protests against rising petrol prices by truck drivers, farmers and fisherpeople have spread through 14 European countries. In Australia, the Transport Workers Union is planning blockades. Governments, from the United
The US-led forces deliberately destroyed Iraq's water supply system during the 1991 Gulf War — flagrantly breaking the Geneva Convention and causing thousands of civilian deaths — reported the Glasgow Sunday Herald on September 17. Since the war
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
The S11 mass protests in Melbourne against the World Economic Forum, September 11-13, united a diverse alliance in condemnation of the neo-liberal economic order. Some of the most significant participants in this alliance were
On September 13, Dr Wen Ho Lee was freed from prison in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lee, a US citizen born in Taiwan, was convicted of a single felony for the mishandling of nuclear secrets. He had downloaded 10 tapes from the Los Alamos National
BY PETER BOYLE
The September 18 issue of the Melbourne Age carried an article by former left activist John Passant, who warned: "Kim Beazley should be worried. The events in Melbourne last week represent a long-term political threat to the ALP ...
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