BY PATRICK BOND
JOHANNESBURG If you had a choice, which city would you choose to
host the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development also known as
Rio+10 in which 60,000 delegates will jaw-jaw about the world's social
and
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ChocolatWith Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Johnny Depp and Lena OlinDirected by Lasse HolstromPalace Cinemas, Sydney, other states to follow
REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM
I saw Chocolat on Valentine's Day. So too, it seemed, did a good
At 2pm on February 7, Ecuadoran indigenous leaders signed a 23-point
accord with President Gustavo Noboa Bejarano, ending an indigenous uprising
against economic policies imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The uprising started on
Imagine: a Socialist Vision for the 21st Century
By Tommy Sheridan and Allan McCombes
Canongate Books, Edinburgh, 2001
$21
Available in March from Resistance bookshops (see page 2)
Visit <http://www.dsp.org.au/rb/rb.htm>.
BY BRONWYN POWELL
WOLLONGONG — Three hundred people sat in on Wollongong City Council's February 19 meeting and watched in anger as council approved the first stage of a 428-lot residential development at Sandon Point in Thirroul.
The council
BY MARGARET ALLUM
Human rights advocates are outraged by new legislation redefining the concept "terrorism", allowing for the banning of organisations considered terrorist and reversing the burden of proof, which was passed by the British
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
The Hidden WordsworthBy Kenneth R. Johnston
Pimlico, 2000690 pp, $35.15 (pb)
"I am of that odious class of men called democrats". Could the person who uttered this statement and who supported the Great French Revolution
BY SEAN HEALY
The word is out. The Australian left is on a roll. Fresh from the
inspiration of S11, when tens of thousands confronted the world's power
brokers at Melbourne's Crown Casino, and with plans well underway for mass
By Neville Spencer
On July 2, Vicente Fox Quesada of the conservative National Action
Party (PAN) was elected president of Mexico putting an end to 71 years
of continuous rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Though
the rule
By Raul Cienfuegos
The US$7.5 billion Plan Colombia, designed by the US State Department
as an anti-drug plan, is beginning to show its true purpose. Of the US$7.5
billion, US$1.3 billion has come from the US, mostly as military
Adelaide:
M1 action. Notice to be served on all businesses in Adelaide Stock Exchange. Thurs March 1, noon. Meet at trading board, Santos bldg, Currie St. Ph 8231 6982.
M1 Adelaide meeting. Every Thurs, 6.30pm. Canon Poole Rm, 5th flr, Adelaide
On January 29, Chilean investigative judge Juan Guzman Tapia announced the indictment of former dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte on 57 counts of homicide and 18 of kidnapping, as co-conspirator in the October 1973 Caravan of Death, in which 74
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