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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,
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