BY ROHAN PEARCE
"It should be clear to us that there is no room in Palestine for these two peoples. No 'development' will bring us to our goal of independent nationhood in this small country. Without the Arabs, the land will become wide and
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BY LISA MACDONALD
A strike of public sector workers, launched on April 15 in Quetta, Baluchistan, continues to paralyse life in the city.
Led by the militant Baluchistan Civil Secretariat Staff Association (BCSSA), the strike involves paramedics,
BY NORM DIXON
Iraq's President Saddam Hussein is the only leader in the world
to have used chemical weapons against his own people this has become
a mantra repeated by US President George Bush, British PM Tony Blair, Bush's
political
BY KAREN FLETCHER
HAVANA It's every host's nightmare: US President George Bush refuses
to come if Cuban President Fidel Castro is there, and there will be the
usual pack of terrorists and hired assassins who try to murder Castro whenever
BY CAMILO JORQUERA
GEELONG — Almost 1000 people, mainly members of the the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) and the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), gathered to commemorate May Day on May 1 for the first time
South Africa, Limits to Change: The Political Economy of TransitionBY HEIN MARAISJuta AcademicCape Town, 2001Ordering enquires at <education@juta.co.za> or visit <http://www.juta.co.za>
REVIEW BY CHRIS BOLSMANN
Hein Marais'
Health care and income protection for all
Despite the federal government's $35 million handout to insurance fund
United Medical Protection in March, on April 29 UMPs directors announced
its provisional liquidation. The collapse of the
Free World I
[The United States'] goal is not combating a rival, but maintaining our
imperial position, and maintaining imperial order... we are in the business
of bringing down hostile governments and creating governments favorable
BY TAMARA PEARSON & SIMON TAYLER
SYDNEY — In a passionate show of defiance against police and media condemnation of militant protests, pro-refugee, anti-corporate and pro-Palestine activists converged on the Sydney offices of Australasian
REVIEW BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
Links #21New Course PublishersSydney 2002128 pages, $8 each or $39 for six issuesOrder at <links@dsp.org.au>Available form Resistance Bookshops (see page 2) or visit <http://www.resistancebooks.com>
BY NICK EVERETT
On May Day (May 1), the ABC's Sally Loane interviewed NSW Labor Council secretary John Robertson. When asked about M1, he objected strongly to M1 activists "taking over" May Day, declaring it was a day for "workers' struggles" not a
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — More than a month ago, I wrote about Venezuela [see GLW #485], pointing out that little had been reported in this country about the achievements of Hugo Chavez and the threat to his reforming government from the usual
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