BY BERNIE WUNSCH
MIAMI — The protests against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) ministerial meeting climaxed on November 20 with a large and peaceful march by more than 30,000 people opposed to corporate globalisation. However, the riot
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BY BENJAMIN DANGL
COCHABAMBA — This interview with socialist leader Evo Morales took place a month after the massive popular uprising against the Bolivian government's proposal to export the country's natural gas to the US for a meagre sum. Huge
BY EVA CHENG
An international campaign was launched on November 20 to stop the contamination of Mexican corn (maize) with the DNA from genetically modified (GM) corn produced by multinational food corporations. Corn is the Mexican population's
BY JOO-CHEONG THAM
The ASIO Legislation Amendment Bill 2003 proposes to amend the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979 in a far-reaching manner, by inserting additional secrecy provisions into the act's detention and questioning
BY PAUL OBOOHOV
Opposition candidate Andrew Hall has won 45.1% in the ballot for the position of national president of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU). Hall is a member of the militant Members First group within the union.
"This
Fat Cats and Running Dogs: the Enron Stage of CapitalismBy Vijay PrashadZed Books, 2002, 246 pp, $28.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Enron, the giant US-based energy corporation, may have died from "creative accounting" and speculative
BY SUE BOLTON
The torrent of media speculation generated by the November 18 assault on Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) national secretary Doug Cameron has all the hallmarks of a good old-fashioned political stitch-up.
The media
To the land of libertyThey came in freedom's nameThey came out openlyTo expose the villain's game
From Miami's emigres"The Brothers" came in '96Their goals your power playTo injure and impoverish
Free the Five, free the Five
So five infiltrated
SAN FRANCISCO — Voters shocked the Democratic Party establishment in the November 4 mayoral election by giving Green Party candidate and city councillor Matt Gonzalez more than 20% of the vote.
He came in second to moderate Democrat Gavin Newsom,
BY DOUG LORIMER
Seven months ago, when the US army rolled into Baghdad, the US war machine seemed invincible. The US rulers seemed to be in reach of realising their goal of conquering Iraq and using it as a secure base from which to establish
BY MICHAEL KARADJIS
The recent horrific bombings of two historic Turkish synagogues and two British targets in Istanbul, which left 52 people dead and some 70 injured, raise the question of why al Qaeda would target Turkey and massacre large
BY EVA CHENG
The pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) had only 62 of its 206 candidates elected in Hong Kong's District Council elections on November 23. In the last DC elections in 1999, 83 DAB candidates were
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