Human rights in China have deteriorated sharply, according to Amnesty International, which described Beijing's crackdown on peaceful dissent in 1999 as "the most serious and wide-ranging" in the last 10 years. "Thousands of people were arbitrarily
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SOUTH AFRICA: Privatisers gets 'Seattled'
JOHANNESBURG — Holding up an unexploded orange water balloon like a trophy, South Africa's water and forestry department director-general Mike Muller beamed with relief. He and a gathering of water
While capitalist economists and mainstream press finance writers may have fervently embraced "free trade" as a cure for all ills, the multinational corporations and Western governments are far more pragmatic and cunning: they write the rules of
Urban guerillas confront injustice
Urban GuerillasJust a LifetimeMad in AustraliaCloud Above my HeadSelf-releasedOrder at <http://www.arch.su.edu.au/~stewa_k/Lyrics.htm> REVIEW BY ROBBIE CASEY
Marchers in this year's May Day parade in
Centrelink introduces 'No sign-no start'
BY TIMOTHY STARR
BRISBANE — In a mock presentation about a new social security regulation, a Centrelink call centre worker took three props to her weekly team meeting: a dictionary, a carrot and a stick.
Aboriginal rally condemns government 'war'
BY RUSSELL PICKERING
SYDNEY — The federal government's policy towards the Aboriginal people would turn the Sydney Olympics into "the games of shame, not the games of peace", Aboriginal Tent Embassy
The following statement was issued by Rebwar Ahmad, secretary of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq on July 14. Green Left Weekly readers are urged to respond to the WCPI's urgent appeal for solidarity. On July 14, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
INDIA: Bihar assembly besieged
Responding to a call by the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (Liberation), thousands of protesters staged a militant gherao (siege) of the assembly building in the poor, northern state of Bihar on July 11.
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — While the "walk for reconciliation" across the Tasman Bridge planned for July 23 has the endorsement of the political establishment as well as Aboriginal people, calls are also being raised for far more substantial
Police close Aboriginal concert
BY KAREN FREDERICKS
BRISBANE — Police have been accused of racism after 12 officers raided the Melbourne Hotel in the suburb of West End on July 7, shutting down a National Aboriginal and Islander Day of
Shed a tear for the marketeers of the last decade: technology had finally provided the ability to bombard a billion people with the same advertising message, but in most cases no one wanted to listen. Marketing is that area of modern commerce where
Rock Against Racism 2
The Urban Guerillas are performing at Rock Against Racism 2 in Sydney, Thursday August 10, 7.30pm, Harbourside Brasserie. Proceeds go to Green Left Weekly, Art Resistance and the Indigenous Students Network. Phone Jill on 9596
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