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REVIEW BY MARINA CARMAN
If you want a chance to see some of the reality behind the glamour and glitz of the Sydney Olympics, then park yourself in front of the TV
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BY DAVE RILEY
As more activists from many cities and towns respond to the call for mass actions against corporate tyranny on May 1, cultural activists are to lend their support to these blockades and related events.
Taking our cue from the
BY EVA CHENG
Workers in Taiwan have frequently taken to the streets recently — and not only to defend their own conditions. In a clear rejection of neo-liberal propaganda which encourages national chauvinism, a section of the Taiwanese trade
Â鶹ӳ» Weekly's MARINA CARMAN travelled to South Africa in October and talked with a number of left activists about their views on the way forward for the left.
BY DAVE BELL
For two years the establishment media has carried the odd snippet about the NSW Labor Council's plans to lease Currawong, the trade union movement's beachfront holiday retreat on Pittwater, north of Sydney. Over the years Currawong,
BY ADAM HANIEH
RAMALLAH, WEST BANK — As Florida recounts distracted the international media, Israeli tanks and helicopters continued to bombard towns and villages throughout the West Bank and Gaza. Following the bombing of a settler bus, Israel
BY CAM PARKER
SYDNEY — Australian Broadcasting Corporation staff voted no confidence in ABC managing director Jonathan Shier at stop-work meetings across Australia held on November 29. The meetings followed revelations in the Senate Estimates
BY PAUL OBOOHOV
CANBERRA — Inflation figures for the September quarter were recently announced. Included in the figures is the initial impact of the goods and services tax (GST), which the Australian Bureau of Statistics describes as having a
Chockers already
“There is no room in the ALP for people who break the law.” — ALP federal
leader Kim Beazley.
Their health is another matter
“We commit to respecting the religious, cultural and ethical concerns of
people.” —
Call for solidarity
The situation in Gaza and the West Bank is deteriorating day after day due to Israel's practices against our people. Our children cannot sleep well, hearing the shooting and shelling at night and during the day. They cannot go
BY SARAH CLEARY
PERTH — The NUS West state conference was held here on November 26. The Labor Party right faction, Unity, had the majority of delegates.
Annette Haeker, former Murdoch University education vice-president was elected to the
BY AHMED NIMER
RAMALLAH — The ongoing uprising and the violent Israeli reaction in the West Bank and Gaza Strip took a new twist on November 28, when Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak announced that early Israeli elections would be held only two
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