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BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — Two bills, passed into law at the end of 2000, reveal just how thoroughly former militant unionist Premier Jim Bacon has been tamed by business. The workers' compensation act and the industrial relations act have both
BY FAROOQ SULEHRIA In its first major electoral success, the Labour Party Pakistan has bagged 12 local council seats in the Sindhi town of Larkana, home town and power base of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. One party candidate also won in
BY MARGARET ALLUM On January 12, a delegation of 50 US activists and scientists, led by US former attorney general Ramsey Clark, boarded a flight to Bagdad. The plane also carried US$1.5 million worth of medical aid and school supplies. The
BY KAMALA EMANUEL For a treaty between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people to work, "first of all, [white people] have got to recognise, at the very beginning of the treaty, that this land belonged to Aboriginal people, and they stole it",
BY MEENA NANJI PESHAWAR, Pakistan — I am buzzing through the streets in an auto rickshaw with a woman whose real name I do not know. She has no fixed address and cannot tell me where we are going. The woman accompanying me was a member of RAWA,
Voices of the ValleyVarious artists, produced by Geoff FrancisAvailable from Hobart Resistance Bookshop, the Wilderness Society Shop or order from <glazfolk@trump.net.au>. REVIEW BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE The Voices of the Valley CD —
BY SUE BOLAND Capital isn't the only thing globalising. The revolutionary left is also, on the basic premise that if capitalist ruling classes play off working people in one country against working people in another, then the solution is
BY FRANCES SHEEHAN & SARAH CLEARY Taking up the theme "Women fighting for global justice", the International Women's Day 2001 collectives have been launched in Sydney and Hobart. The Sydney collective is organising a political action for Saturday
BY ALLEN MYERS PHNOM PENH — With 92 votes in favour and none opposing, the National Assembly on January 2 approved a bill to establish a special court to try former leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime, which was responsible for the deaths of up to
BY RUSSELL MOKHIBER AND ROBERT WEISSMAN This year, rushing to the head of the pack of irresponsible biotech companies was the French corporation Aventis, the maker of Cry9C corn, sold under the name StarLink. Earlier this year, StarLink corn —
BY SUE BOLAND It is getting harder and harder to organise international conferences of the left these days. Rich imperialist governments have taken to routinely denying visas to delegates from Third World countries, even when those delegates have
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Bob Dylan Behind the Shades: The Biography — Take TwoBy Clinton HeylinViking, 2000780 pp, $50 (hb) In February 1991, as the US was bombarding Iraq in a frenzy of bloodletting, Bob Dylan received a Lifetime Achievement