PREVIEW BY AZLAN McLENNAN Melbourne artist Van Rudd responds to the contemporary political climate with his new art project entitled Portrait of an Exploding Terrorist. The project is to consist of a graphic painting by Rudd of a figure blowing
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Margarita Windisch, Melbourne On October 3, the Victorian Kurdish Association is hosting a conference titled "Political and Human Rights Dimensions of the Kurdish Question". Mahmut Kahraman told Green Left Weekly that the conference aimed to bring
Liam Mitchell On September 22, Progressive Enterprises distribution centre workers who had been locked out for four weeks by their employer returned to work after the company, a subsidiary of Woolworths Australia, reached a settlement the day before
During the night of September 19 Thailand's military overthrew the government of PM Thaksin Shinawatra while he was in New York to address the UN General Assembly, abolished the constitution and imposed martial law. In a national TV broadcast the
Business has been invited, but how will Australia's workers get a seat at the cabinet table of a future Beazley Labor government? The federal opposition leader has promised to set up a "council of business advisers" with special access to cabinet
Neville Spencer On September 16 — Independence Day — 1,025,724 registered delegates and many thousands of others gathered at the National Democratic Convention in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo. Accusing right-wing president-elect Felipe
Lafayette MarquisC C AdcockYeproc Records <http://www.yeproc.com> REVIEW BY BILL NEVINS "Oh, yeah, it's a runaway life," wails Charles "C C" Adcock from the stage of Tipitina's Uptown one rainy New Orleans night at the start of Jazz
Peter Boyle When George Bush addressed the UN General Assembly on September 19, he spoke like an angry emperor admonishing the majority of the world. But Bush's arrogant pretensions were punctured the next day by President Hugo Chavez of the
Graham Matthews The church and state hierarchies have combined to defend Australian values from a supposed assault from Islamic culture. But so feeble are the values that PM John Howard, Catholic Archbishop George Pell and Liberal MP Andrew Robb
Nicole Colson, Chicago On September 12, US magistrate Norbert Garney recommended releasing 79-year-old Luis Posada Carriles from the Texas detention centre where he has been held since last year on immigration charges. Posada is an anti-Castro Cuban
Briggs Bomba The cruel impact of the Zimbabwean crisis on the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans can no longer be fully described through terms such as rate of inflation, percentage unemployment, GDP, and so forth. Today one has to talk in terms of the
Doug Lorimer According to the September 11 Washington Post, Colonel Peter Devlin, chief of intelligence for the US Marine Corps in Iraq, sent a secret report to the Pentagon on August 16 saying that the 30,000 US marines, soldiers and sailors
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