Delegates to the annual British Trade Union Congress conference on September 10 unanimously backed a motion calling for "work through the United Nations for the withdrawal without delay of coalition troops and for control of Iraq to be given to the
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BY HUW ELLIS
UK-based DJ Adam Freeland's debut album Now & Them, with its killer single "We Want Your Soul", will be released in Australia on September 29. With Now & Them, Freeland has spread his wings well beyond the dance floor. The album's
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third WorldBy Mike DavisVerso 2002464 pages, $48
REVIEWED BY DAVE RILEY
While drought is considered a natural phenomenon, famine is not so easily blamed on the elements. It may be
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — The Victorian Peace Network (VPN) decided at its meeting on September 9 not to organise a rally to coincide with US President George Bush's visit to Australia. However the meeting, attended by 21 people, agreed to fund
BY JAMES BALOWSKI
JAKARTA — Indonesian government officials and high-ranking military officers have been hinting that, despite the military's (TNI) much-touted successes in its war against the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in the province
BY MATTHEW DIMMOCK
John Bolton did time in US President Ronald Reagan's administration in the 1980s. More recently, he was vice-president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and a member of the Project for the New American Century, two key
BY SALLY HARBISON
"We are Aboriginal Women — Yankunytjatjara, Antikarinya and Kokatha. We know the country. We know the stories for the land. We are worrying for the country and we're worrying for our kids. We say, 'No radioactive dump in our
BY JACK A. SMITH
The Bush administration is in a panic as its political, military and economic house of cards in Iraq is beginning to collapse card by card. Nothing but an impending debacle that might subvert President George Bush's re-election
BY RUSSELL PICKERING
PERTH — Fifty building sites from Woodvale to Kwinana ground to a halt on September 8 as 4000 construction workers downed tools for 24 hours to protest the death toll in the building industry.
The latest fatality, that of a
"If cities are destroyed by flames, if women and children are victims of suffocating gases, if the population in open cities far from the front perish due to bombs dropped from planes, it will be impossible for the enemy to continue the war". This was German Nazi military strategist MK Dertzen's theory.
BY MARY MERKENICH
In the week preceding the September 17 Australia- wide day of industrial action by teachers' unions, including 24-hour strikes by teachers in three states and a half day stop-work in the ACT, the Victorian branch of the Australian
BY CHRISTANO KERRILA
A revolution is unfolding in Venezuela and a life and death struggle is taking place between the future and the past. Venezuela's mainstream national media is almost totally monopolised by the corrupt capitalist oligarchy.
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