BY RALPH NADER
US corporations aren't even subtle about it. Waving a flag and carrying a big shovel, corporate interests are scooping up government benefits and taxpayer money in an unprecedented fashion while the public is preoccupied with the
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BY ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE — "I got involved before the Tampa crisis", says singer Ross McLennan of Melbourne band Snout. "Turning refugees away was terrible — but locking them up, telling lies about them and inciting racism was enough for me to
BY FAROOQ TARIQ
LAHORE, November 13 — The Northern Alliance has taken over with little or no resistance by the Taliban forces. The much-threatened jihad of the Taliban was nowhere to be seen when the Northern Alliance forces arrived.
The myth
BY FELIPE PEREZ
[The following is a slightly abridged version of the speech made by revolutionary Cuba's foreign minister to the UN General Assembly on November 13.]
The war in Afghanistan must be stopped. The government of the United States must
BY OUPA LEHULERE
JOHANNESBURG — South African "civil society" organisations took their first major step towards organising for the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. During three days of intense debates, held September 26-28, the Civil
REVIEW BY TROY SAXBY
Marxism, Socialism & ReligionWritings by Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, VI Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg and Leon TrotskyResistance Books, Sydney 2001158 pages, $14.95Available at Resistance Bookshops (see page 2) or visit
Misery
"Some people know how to be people. They do not have to go to school for it. They are just naturally good at it." — Irving Elmer Bell.
At Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, those general population prisoners who have the
BY SEAN HEALY
In the game of "chicken", two drivers test their nerves by driving towards each other at catastrophic speed. The first one to swerve to avoid collision loses. In a high-stakes game of "chicken" at the World Trade Organisation summit
BY LIAM MITCHELL
SYDNEY — If unions hope to really represent working people, they have to break into, regulate and organise the labour hire sector, militant union leader Craig Johnston told a gathering on November 13.
Fresh from marching in an
Lockheed Martin is the largest producer of weapons in human history, the product of a 1995 merger of the world's two largest defence corporations.
Their lines of business include government satellites, information technology base systems and launch
Deaf man walking
"I have not heard a word of criticism from anyone about the way Kim Beazley campaigned over the last five weeks." — ALP national secretary Gary Walsh.
To inspire hope among the Liberals
"Inspiring hope is often difficult, but
Israel
I welcome Philip Mendes' reply (Write On, GLW #471) to my letter in GLW #470. I would suggest he read my letter again. He has tried to confuse my attitude toward the Israeli state with my attitude toward individual Jews in Israel.
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