BY PATRICK BOND
JOHANNESBURG For 90 years, we've waited to see the combined geographical and political implications of locating an urban bantustan in a small block of land in northeast Johannesburg called Alexandra.
August 31 was breakout
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Howard, Carr fuel racism
The combined efforts of John Howard, Bob Carr and the media to create a xenophobic atmosphere surrounding Muslims and all things Islamic has begun to bear its bitter and poisonous fruit.
On August 22, a pregnant woman was
Pakistani peasants shot dead
On August 26, Pakistani police and military fired on a gathering of 2000 peasants from Okara village.
The peasants had just been negotiating with the army landlords over the downgrading of tenancy rights. After
BY JAMES BALOWSKI
On August 31, a band of unidentified assailants ambushed a group of mine workers in Indonesia's eastern-most province of West Papua, leaving three dead and 11 injured.
Indonesian officials immediately blamed the Free Papua
BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY — Activists from a wide range of organisations attended a meeting on August 30 to organise action against the World Trade Organisation's "informal" meeting of trade ministers, due to be held in Sydney on November 14-15.
This
BY IGGY KIM
On September 5, Sri Lanka's government lifted its four-year ban on the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). This followed a clash over the
issue between the United National Front (UNF) government and President
Chandrika
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON Remembering September 11 merely as a gruesome spectacle is an insult to the victims of that epic crime. However, remembering is important in order to make sense of it, and especially of what happened next.
Most of the
BY TIM GOODEN
MELBOURNE The Socialist Alliance and the Skilled Six Committee
jointly hosted a rousing public meeting on September 2, discussing solidarity
with the militant unions in Victoria. The Victorian Trades Hall was occupied
by
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE
The struggle between militant Victorian Australian Manufacturing Workers
Union officials and the AMWU national office took a dramatic turn on September
2.
By noon of that day, the elected state secretary of the
In these awful times, as we struggle to understand what is happening to our world, we must keep in mind the events of the recent past.
At dawn on September 11, he received his orders.While others would attack the citadels of commerce and defenceTo
BY NORMAN BREWER
SYDNEY Reconciliation and peaceful dialogue among West Papuans
was the theme of the workshop of the West Papua Project, held at Sydney
University on September 2-3. The WPP is based at the Centre for Peace and
Conflict
BY NORM DIXON
In the week before the first anniversary of the devastating September
11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, TV networks aired
a seemingly never-ending string of special events featuring exclusive
or
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