On January 16, author and activist Arundhati Roy, winner of the 1997 Booker Prize, addressed the opening plenary of the World Social Forum in Mumbai. This is an abridged text of her speech.
Last January thousands of us gathered in Porto Alegre in
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Rohan Pearce
Little more than a week and a half after the publication of a book on the career of US President George Bush's former treasury secretary, Paul O'Neill, in which O'Neill confessed he "never saw anything that I would characterise as
Kerryn Williams
A damning report on the federal government's work-for-the-dole program has revealed "quite large significant adverse effects of participation" in the scheme.
The report, "Does 'Work for the Dole' Work?", was obtained by the
Dave Riley
A day after admitting that he took policy leads from interstate ALP governments and New Labour in Britain, state Coalition leader Lawrence Spingborg accused Queensland Labor of policy theft. "This is just plagiarism", he said, "at the
Doug Lorimer
The Labor Party's three-day 2004 national conference formally began on January 29 with federal ALP leader Mark Latham's keynote speech. However, the conference — a largely staged-managed public relations event to launch Latham's bid
Eva Cheng
Hoping that China's enormous population of about 1.2 billion people could be turned into mass consumers for the products of Western companies, Western leaders hailed China's initiatives in the early 1990s to reintegrate into the world
Mike Byrne, Brisbane
The Socialist Alliance's South Brisbane branch staged an "eviction" of ALP state MP Anna Bligh from her electorate office on January 31, as a protest against homelessness, which has dramatically increased under Premier Peter
Norm Dixon
A landmark report, commissioned by the environmental group Friends of the Earth and released on January 29, has revealed that the operations and products of the world's largest oil corporation, Exxon Mobil and its predecessors (beginning
"Good parenting and responsibility is not an optional extra in life, it's necessary for a good society", argued federal ALP leader Mark Latham in supporting plans by the Western Australian Labor government to issue "parental responsibility orders"
@intro2 = As the battle for the Democrat presidential nomination heated up, US Socialist Worker took a closer look at the most likely candidates. Profiles of all candidates are available at <http://www.socialistworker.org>.
John Kerry
Berta Joubert-Ceci, New York
Amid protests restricted by the government and a heavy police presence, the Americas Summit was held on January 12-13 in Monterrey, Mexico. Many protesting groups had signed a statement declaring US President George
Anna Samson, Sydney
There is little difference between "an irresponsible drunken man" wantonly vandalising private property and two individuals attempting to "make a serious political point" by marking a public building.
This is what Justice John
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