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BY HEBA SALEH Ten days of rioting, beginning in late April, in the Algerian Berber-speaking region of Kabylia have led to the death of scores of demonstrators — all killed by the security forces' gunfire. As ever in Algeria, there are no

Analysing Australia's role in reconstructing East Timor, Lansell Taudevin, Jefferson Lee, JON LAND, East Timor, Indonesia, Australia, Timor Gap, militia, Andrew Plunkett, Dateline"> East Timor: A nation betrayed East Timor: Making amends?

BY SARAH PEART MELBOURNE - On May 18, for the eighth Friday in a row, anti-corporate protesters peacefully blockaded the entrances to Nike's superstore on Swanston Street, in the centre of the city. The authorities are hitting back, however, in
BY REBECCA MECKELBURG ADELAIDE — Despite the presentation of a petition signed by 80 students which called for the re-affiliation of the Flinders University M1 Action Group, the May 16 student council meeting of the Students' Association of
Perth M1 Grant Coleman ("Police assaults fail to deter blockade", GLW #447) asserts that police attempted to get people through the May 1 Perth stock exchange blockade rather than use a rear entrance that was left open by the protesters. In fact,
Three years after the chief of clothing giant Nike, Phil Knight, promised to improve standards in the company's factories, its workers still continue to suffer repression and poverty wages, a new report released on May 16 has found. “On
Keeping control Most internet business are facing financial crises today, a year after the “dotcom” bubble burst. Even the infrastructure companies, those that manufacture the boxes and phone lines, software and PCs that connect people
BY SIMON BUTLER BRISBANE — The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting here in October is set to be a focus for militant actions against the forum's expressed support for corporate globalisation. Groups and individuals involved in organising
BY NAOMI KLEIN Let's face it, the street theatre in London was a bit of a McProtest. The idea of turning London into a life-sized Monopoly board on May Day sounded like a great idea to me. The most familiar criticism lobbed at modern protesters
In urban America A reader asks, "What is it like to be a Black man in America?" I could go on for days answering that question but time and space will not permit that so I will just give you a view of a few minutes. The distinct hum of an
BY DICK NICHOLS There are hundreds of thousands of people in this country who know full well that since 1996 John Howard and Peter Costello have simply been carrying on the pro-corporate policies of the Hawke and Keating Labor governments of the
BY JENNY LONG SYDNEY — Affiliates of the NSW Labor Council on May 17 called on the state Labor government to split its workers' compensation "reform" package into two parts, in the latest bid to force concessions on the controversial