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BY MALIK MIAH George W. Bush became the 43rd president of the United States by a five-to-four vote of the US Supreme Court. But the die was cast long before the November 7 election. One of the dirty aspects of the 2000 presidential elections was
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS What do revolutions look like? Many people have a stereotyped picture of what a revolution is: a revolution is an event in which people with guns take over a city or a country. This image confuses a revolution with an
The French seaside resort town of Nice, on the country's Mediterranean coast, added its name to the list of "insurgent cities" — a list which already includes Seattle, Washington, Prague and Melbourne — when, on December 6-7, 70,000 people from
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS Leigh Hughes joined the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) in November 2000 following the tumultuous events at the S11 protests in Melbourne. He is 17 years old, and is a Year 12 student at Tuggeranong College, a college in an
BY STEPHEN O'BRIEN NEWCASTLE — Mining company Colrock has followed in the nefarious tradition of National Textiles and Steel Tank and Pipe (STP) by sacking workers without paying them their entitlements. Colrock, whose parent company is the
BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), the child of Gennady Zyuganov, might to almost the same degree be called the child of Boris Yeltsin. Throughout the entire period from 1993 to 1999 the party had a clearly
Bougainville Voices was recorded in central Bougainville in 1998 by musicologist Justin Tonti-Filippini at the personal invitation of Bougainville's leaders. He began work as soon as a truce was brokered on the war-torn island that has been fighting
Rebel RadioCD/CD-ROM by Up, Bustle and OutNinja Tune Records The Rebel Radio DiariesBy Rupert MouldLa Prensa Rebelde REVIEW BY NICK FREDMAN "On February 1958, in the Sierra Maestra Mountains to the Northwest of Santiago de Cuba, Che installed
BY NORM DIXON George Walker ("Dubya") Bush will be inaugurated as the United States of America's 43rd president on January 20. Even before he sets foot in the White House, vast numbers of Americans are already convinced that Bush has no legitimate
BY SEAN HEALY This week, Green Left Weekly celebrates its 10th birthday. Through a decade of tumult, of wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions, we've lived long and prospered. Our first issue actually appeared on February 28, 1991 but, such
The call for swift execution of 13-year-old Nathaniel Brazill, who was suspected of shooting a school teacher to death earlier this year, sparked controversy. Many people all over the world are joining the struggle against death as a