BY SEAN HEALY
SYDNEY — M1 2002 is up and running. On February 14, activists met to begin planning May 1 actions which will include protests across the city in the morning, a "unity rally" at midday in Martin Place and a festival or street party
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BY NICOLE COLSON
CHICAGO — In his State of the Union address, President George Bush piously declared that "America will always stand firm for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity" — including "respect for women". But in the two weeks
BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — Since his meteoric rise to cabinet five months ago, the NSW Labor government's minister for police Michael Costa has implemented a series of initiatives that will send more people to jail.
One of his more subtle changes
BY SUE BULL
— The royal commission into the building industry has returned to Melbourne amid a barrage of controversy. There have been sensational allegations about breaches of its security and lack of independence. Unions have continued to
An Indelible StainBy Henry ReynoldsViking Press, 2001209 pages, $27
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
In the introduction to An Indelible Stain?, historian Henry Reynolds predicts that after reading that book, "many people will seek more definite answers, firmer
If you have received a letter from the NSW State Electoral Office in the last six weeks requesting confirmation of your membership of Socialist Alliance, please reply NOW!
To succeed, the alliance's application for electoral registration in NSW
LumumbaDirected by Raoul PeckWith Eriq Ebouaney, Maka KottoScreening at Valhalla and Chauvel Cinemas, Sydney, and Lumiere Cinema, Melbourne
REVIEW BY NICK EVERETT
Lumumba ends as the film begins, with a heart-wrenching dramatisation of the brutal
BY KATIE NEVILLE
MELBOURNE — As thousands travelled to Canberra to protest the government's inhumane refugee policies, solidarity protests also occurred across Australia on February 12.
Four hundred people gathered outside immigration
BY LESLIE RICHMOND
ADELAIDE — Despite an (unofficial) election campaign that had dragged on for nearly six months, on the night before polling day in the South Australian elections, 10% of voters had not decided who they would vote for. This was
TEL AVIV — Around 10,000 people rallied here on February 9 to back the growing numbers of Israeli reserve soldiers who are refusing to serve in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
A year ago, at a rally called by much the same peace and human
BY MALIK MIAH
SAN FRANCISCO — President George Bush's "war on terrorism" is leading to some complex and contradictory reactions among African Americans.
Like an overwhelming majority of Americans, blacks reacted to the heinous crime of
Museworthy: Hostage Sonnet
he lost his head because they
realised the scale of value: try
one white for one hundred blacks
and then further down, one hundred
blacks from here equals about a
thousand from there... “Go West, young
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