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South Africa, Limits to Change: The Political Economy of TransitionBY HEIN MARAISJuta AcademicCape Town, 2001Ordering enquires at <education@juta.co.za> or visit <http://www.juta.co.za> REVIEW BY CHRIS BOLSMANN Hein Marais'
REVIEW BY JONATHAN STRAUSS Links #21New Course PublishersSydney 2002128 pages, $8 each or $39 for six issuesOrder at <links@dsp.org.au>Available form Resistance Bookshops (see page 2) or visit <http://www.resistancebooks.com>
BY CAMILO JORQUERA GEELONG — Almost 1000 people, mainly members of the the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) and the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), gathered to commemorate May Day on May 1 for the first time
BY TAMARA PEARSON & SIMON TAYLER SYDNEY — In a passionate show of defiance against police and media condemnation of militant protests, pro-refugee, anti-corporate and pro-Palestine activists converged on the Sydney offices of Australasian
What are we to do with the refugeeswhen we have racists to appease?What we needed was a specific resolutionbut had to make do with the Pacific solution.Just across from the Long White Cloudin the land of the John White Howardlived a people who once
BY JOHN PILGER LONDON — More than a month ago, I wrote about Venezuela [see GLW #485], pointing out that little had been reported in this country about the achievements of Hugo Chavez and the threat to his reforming government from the usual
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS MELBOURNE — More than 10,000 people took to the streets of Melbourne on May Day, protesting against attacks on workers' and refugees' rights and in solidarity with the Palestinian people. The protests' success was a step
BY URI AVNERY TEL AVIV — The real aim of “Operation Defensive Shield” was not to “destroy the infrastructure of terrorism”. This was merely a good slogan for uniting the people of Israel, who are angry and afraid after the suicide
BY NICK EVERETT On May Day (May 1), the ABC's Sally Loane interviewed NSW Labor Council secretary John Robertson. When asked about M1, he objected strongly to M1 activists "taking over" May Day, declaring it was a day for "workers' struggles" not a
BY KIM BULLIMORE SYDNEY — Calling for a free Palestine, 500 women and children — many wearing traditional dress and carrying olive branches — rallied in Hyde Park on May 4. Organised by the Palestine Human Rights Campaign, participants then
Museworthy: Wooden Bird painted crowd; unsurprised children quietly skipping; everyone where they are supposed to be following the announcement of a new world — until,into the very centre of the square from a juxtaposed tree and sky falls
BY ALISON DELLIT With the conclusion of two public hearings into proposed "anti-terrorist" laws, the Labor and Coalition parties are beginning to define their positions on the package of legislation. The package looks likely to pass with