Inessa, Lenin's Mistress
By Michael Pearson
Duckworth, 2001
257 pages, $65.95 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
When Inessa Armand met Vladimir Lenin in a Paris caf in 1909, so
began one of the most speculated about love affairs on the
495
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON Soon after New Labour came to power in 1997, the then foreign
secretary, Robin Cook, announced an ethical dimension to British foreign
policy. He said that the government will not issue an (arms) export licence
if
BY EVA CHENG
The rulers of India and Pakistan — both nuclear-armed allies of Washington in the US-led "war on terrorism" — are terrorising each other with the threat of nuclear war.
The Pentagon estimates that a full-scale nuclear exchange
BY SUE BOLTON
The ballot for the position of national secretary of the Australian
Manufacturing Workers Union food and con- fectionary division has still
not been decided. The ballot closed on May 20 and counting was carried
out on May
GLW #494 incorrectly stated that Doug Cameron is the national president
of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union. He is the national secretary.
GLW apologises for the error.
From Green Left Weekly, June 5, 2002.
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BY JESS MELVIN
Tens of thousands of people around the country attended public meetings
featuring Tenzin Gyatso, Tibets 14th Dalai Lama, in late May. His May
20 Melbourne address attracted 9000 students.
Gyatso received the 1989 Nobel
BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — A non-violent blockade of a meeting featuring immigration minister Philip Ruddock, extreme right-wing Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt and anti-immigration academic Bob Birrell was violently attacked by police in front
BY ROHAN PEARCE
Media-monitoring group Electronic Intifada has released a report by Nigel Parry into media coverage of the April 2-May 10 siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, during which seven Palestinians were killed, and
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN — Supporters of Green Left Weekly are once again having to defend their right to distribute the papers in public space. The latest attack on that right has come from Mindil Beach Sunset Markets Association (MBSMA).
GLW
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The government is responsible for institutional child abuse, according
to a May report by two Melbourne organisations the Catholic Commission
for Justice Development and Peace (CCJDP) and the Western Young People's
BY EVA CHENG
Anticipating he would not be able to get parliamentary approval for a six-month extension of the state of emergency in place since November 2001, on May 22 Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba dissolved the parliament and called
BY ALLEN JENNINGS
The May 26 election of Alvaro Uribe Velez as Colombia's next president represents a watershed in both Colombia's and the United States' approach to the country's spiralling discontent and four decades of armed insurgency.
The
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