BY ROHAN PEARCE
On September 21, Kamel al Gailani, the Iraqi "minister of finance" and a member of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council (IGC), announced at a meeting of the Institute of International Finance in Dubai a plan which he claimed
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BY MATTHEW DIMMOCK
BANGKOK — Authorities are striving to make this city look its best for the October 20-21 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. The race is on to "sanitise" Bangkok's streets, or at least the ones that foreign
Thousands turned out across the United States on September 27 for a day of protest against the US occupation of Iraq and Israel's oppression of the Palestinians. The demonstrations were called by the International Act Now to Stop War and End Racism
[Radical "poet lorikeet" Denis Kevans, who joined the LBJ protests in Sydney and in Canberra, sent the following poem which he presented to "concerts, smoke-ohs and rallies". It was published and set to music in February 1962 when the anti-Vietnam
BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY
MOSCOW — There has been heated discussion in the camp of the Russian opposition this northern Spring. The crisis of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) led to the emergence of "renovating" tendencies in its
BY STEVE ELLIOT DORE
SYDNEY — NSW Labor Premier Bob Carr told the annual NSW Labor Party conference on October 5 that the NSW government does not plan to renew the leases for Patrick Stevedores' Darling Harbour and P&O's White Bay and Glebe
An Execution in the Family: One Son's JourneyBy Robert MeeropolSt Martin's Press, 2003273 pages, $59 (hb)The Brother: The Untold Story of the Rosenberg CaseBy Sam RobertsRandom House, 2003549 pages, $32.95 (pb)
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BY DALE McKINLEY
JOHANNESBURG — As the Congress of South African Trade Unions' (COSATU) eighth national congress, held September 15-18, was winding down, a senior leader, perhaps inadvertently, summed up: "We can only hope that these issues
BY BENJAMIN DANGL
COCHABAMBA — An intense series of protests, strikes and highway blockades continue to gain momentum across Bolivia as new sections of the population join the movement against the export of the country's natural gas to the US.
BY SUE BOLTON
MELBOURNE — After taking strike action for the first time in more than 10 years, 500 workers employed by the Swedish-owned auto components company Autoliv have won major concessions from the company.
The mostly female and mostly
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
CANBERRA — In a phone interview with Green Left Weekly on October 8, federal Labor MP Harry Quick, known for his strong opposition to the Iraq war, indicated he was thinking of wearing a white armband to protest the US
BY JIM GREEN
ADELAIDE — A bush camp was held near Coober Pedy from September 29 to October 1 to build the campaign against the federal government's plan for a national nuclear waste dump in South Australia.
The Kulini Kulini ("Are you
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