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Hundreds toast Cuban Revolution

BY KIM BULLIMORE SYDNEY — Hundreds of supporters of Cuba have gathered here twice in the past two weeks to celebrate the 48th anniversary of the July 26, 1953, storming of the Moncada barracks, the spark which set off the Cuban Revolution six

Blue Mountains turn red

BY SUSAN BARLEY SYDNEY — "From the Sierra Maestra mountains to the Blue Mountains" was the theme of the inaugural Â鶹ӳ»­ Weekly solidarity dinner in the Blue Mountains, held at the Mid-Mountains Community Centre on July 28. Ricardo Andino

The Big Lie

@box text intr = Joseph Goebbels, the notorious Nazi propagandist (a job which today would be called "spin doctor"), came up with a theory in the 1930s called the Big Lie: the bigger the lie you tell people, the theory went, and the more you repeat

Feast inside, soup kitchen outside

BY SEAN HEALY SYDNEY — The contrast was obvious and deliberate. Inside, in the warmth of the luxury ANA Hotel, was World Bank president James Wolfensohn lecturing a $150-a-plate dinner on the joys of "globalisation"; outside, in the cold and