BY WALTER LIPPMANN
The online version of Walter Lippmann's report from Cuba's July 26 celebrations can be found at his web site http://www.walterlippmann.com.
The complete English translation of Fidel Castro's speech is at
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Casualisation
It was great to have an article on casualisation in last week's Green Left Weekly (#547). This is an important issue, and one that is especially affecting young people.
Most young workers are casual. This is not just because these
The day they launched the Cuban RevolutionFrom darkest ashes rose, the fireThe spark that lit 10,000 eveningsAgainst their mortal foes they rose.
The dark was filled by Batista's brand of terror His dungeons dank and cold.Exploiting workers,
On July 23, Indigenous leaders from around the country were invited to Canberra to attend a round-table discussion on Indigenous violence. While Prime Minister John Howard has received praise from the mainstream press and sections of the Indigenous
NSW law is being moved closer to giving the fetus legal rights independent of the woman who is carrying it, following the release of a review into the state's manslaughter legislation.
In his report, released on June 25, retired Supreme Court judge
BY NOREEN NAVIN
SYDNEY On July 29, NSW public school teachers voted overwhelmingly at state-wide stop-work meetings in support of a proposal by the NSW Teachers Federation to hold a one-day strike.Teachers are demanding that Premier Bob
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
PERTH — On July 30, 70 people crowded into the Fremantle Hotel for a quiz night fundraiser organised by the Fremantle Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG).
FANG is committed to stopping the Seaswap program, under which US Navy vessels
BY ROHAN PEARCE
In the end, it took a US$30 million bribe, six hours, several hundred troops, and more than 20 missiles fired from helicopter gunships for the US military to kill two armed thugs, a bodyguard and a 14-year-old boy. Fittingly for
Marx's EcologyBy John Bellamy FosterMonthly Review Press, 2000310 pages, $32.40
REVIEWED BY BEN COURTICE
Although Marxists have taken part in the environmental movement, especially since its rapid rise in the 1970s, there has always been
JAKARTA — On July 28, the government of South Kalimantan (Borneo) and Indigenous Dayak commmunity leaders strongly denounced Placer Dome, a Vancouver- and Sydney-based mining company, for its plans for mining operations in one of the last protected
BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
PERTH — Ali Kazak, the head of the Palestinian delegation to Australia, spoke to over 200 people during his recent visit to Western Australia.
Organised by the NoWar Alliance, the tour enabled Kazak to explain firsthand the
BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
MELBOURNE — Dr Fikret Baskaya is a 63-year-old Turkish intellectual who has been imprisoned twice for criticising the strategy of the Turkish state in dealing with the issue of Kurdistan. Baskaya spoke at packed public
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