It's a Free Country: Personal Freedom in America after September
11
Edited by Danny Goldberg, Victor Goldberg and Robert Greenwald
RDV Books, 2002
362 pages, $39.95 (hb)
REVIEW
BY PHIL SHANNON
One month after the September 11,
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BY RAUL BASSI
I am thrilled about the level of discussion on left unity. I have never before seen such a large number of contributions to such a discussion. I come from an old tradition of activism, politics and trade unionism. The best I can do is
BY
DOUG LORIMER
DELHI Red resistance to saffron subversion was the central theme
of the seventh congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)
held November 25-30 in the city of Patna, capital of Bihar state, in
BY
ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART Two floats in the November 30 Launceston Christmas parade
have sparked a string of letters in the Examiner, the town's daily
tabloid.
The Peace on Earth float was entered by a coalition of No War on Iraq,
BY
ALISON DELLIT
The Greens scored a whopping 9.2% of the vote across Victoria in
the November 30 state election. This was just the latest in a string of
successes that began with a better than expected result in the Western
Australian
PERTH Seventy-five
people dined and wined on a November 30 river cruise on the Swan River.
Greetings were presented by trade unionist Craig Johnston and Democratic
Socialist Party member Anthony Benbow. The cruise raised $900 for Green
Left
BY JON LAND
Dili, the capital of East Timor, was hit by a wave of protests and riots on December 3-4. The unrest culminated in at least two deaths and scores of injured, when police fired tear gas and live ammunition to disperse angry crowds of
MANILA Some
20,000 militant workers, together with the urban poor and student youth,
celebrated National Heroes Day on November 30 with a vow to continue Gat
Andres Bonifacio's struggle by resisting imperialist globalisation and
war.
BY CHRIS LATHAM
PERTH - On December 8, more than 1000 people rallied in Perth to oppose the impending war in Iraq. Organised by the NOWAR Alliance, the protest demanded: no war on Iraq; no Australian support for war; an end to sanctions on Iraq;
BY NICK CHINNA
As a non-affiliated member of the Socialist Alliance, I would like to contribute to the debate on left unity and the nature of the alliance.
I am relieved that the Democratic Socialist Party's (DSP) decision to postpone its
Islam and homosexuality
As a supporter of GLW, I am very disappointed that Leon Harrison (GLW #519) is attacking us like a right-wing columnist. It would have been very easy for him to contact myself through GLW, which has my email address and my
BY JOHN PILGER
Today, I am reminded of all the other great demonstrations that have happened around the world. At the end of September, I addressed 400,000 people in the centre of London. In Washington, there have been something like 200
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