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CUBA: Another shady and sinister story The case of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez, plucked from the Florida straits in November and held against his family's will for eight months until his July return, forced world attention onto US policy towards
Training camp prepares activists for S11 BY MARCEL CAMERON MELBOURNE — Forty activists attended a lively "socialist training camp" near Ballarat in country Victoria to prepare for the September 11-13 blockade of the World Economic Forum summit
Race and class in the US: The duopoly It's official: Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman are the Democratic Party nominees for president and vice-president of the United States; George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are the Republican Party nominees. The "race
Lucas Heights reactor from 'Dodgy brothers' BY JIM GREEN The federal Coalition government has been embarrassed by revelations about Investigaciones Aplicadas (Invap), the Argentinean company contracted to build a nuclear reactor in the southern
RIO BRAVO, TAMAULIPAS — Mexico's new national government of Vicente Fox hasn't taken office yet, but already it confronts its thorniest political problem. This challenge comes not from the country's former governing party, the Institutional
Demanding reproductive freedom LISMORE — Twenty-five activists organised by the Southern Cross University Queer Collective held a sit-in at the office of federal National Party MP Ian Causley to oppose the Coalition government's proposed changes
Sacked workers seek action from ALP BY MELANIE SJOBERG MELBOURNE — The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian secretary Craig Johnston has called on Victorian Labor Premier Steve Bracks to intervene to prevent the closure of