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Apartheid minister backs ANC

Apartheid minister backs ANC By Norm Dixon The apartheid regime's longest serving foreign minister, Pik Botha, travelled the world defending the racist system and its dirty wars against Angola and Mozambique and its terrorist attacks

Ecuador's new president promises more of the same

By Neville Spencer Gustavo Noboa was installed as president of Ecuador on January 22. He has promised to continue the economic policies which led to the ousting of President Jamil Mahuad the previous day in a coup which took place on the back of a

Being John Malkovich: Manipulation in Wonderland

Manipulation in Wonderland Being John MalkovichDirected by Spike JonzeStarring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz and Catherine KeenerScreening in selected cinemas Review by Jonathan Singer Being John Malkovich has been categorised as comedy. I'm not sure

Russia's MiG resists marketeers

MOSCOW — ANATOLY BARANOV, a long-time activist on the Russian left, now holds a prominent post as public relations director for one of the country's leading military-industrial corporations, which produces the famous MiG fighter aircraft. Baranov

Campaigns to win with

Campaigns to win with For the last two and a half decades of neo-liberal attacks, the Australian trade union movement has been under siege from the bosses and their politicians. On the principle that the best form of defence is to go on the

Support the Pilbara workers!

By Anthony Benbow Since September, a battle has been unfolding in Western Australia's north-west Pilbara region, the outcome of which will affect the conditions and wages of workers throughout Australia. The fight to prevent individual contracts at

Candidate to campaign for prostitution law reform

Candidate to campaign for prostitution law reform By Philippa Stanford ADELAIDE — Speculation that brothel owner Stormy Summers will run for the position of lord mayor of Adelaide in the May council election has sparked enormous controversy.

Pakistani workers express solidarity

The following is abridged from a statement, in solidarity with the striking electricity workers of Uttar Pradesh, India, issued by the Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) on January 25. The Labour Party Pakistan expresses its deepest solidarity with the

Labor's coastguard to keep out refugees

By Sean Healy Federal Labor leader Kim Beazley has announced that his party will establish a new coastguard to "protect Australia's borders" when it is elected to government. Beazley said the initiative, announced on January 23, was motivated by

ALP challenged in Woodridge by-election

ALP challenged in Woodridge by-election By Jim McIlroy BRISBANE — Peter Beattie's Labor government is in danger of losing the outer suburban seat of Woodridge, traditionally one of Labor's safest, to an ex-ALP independent local councillor,

Police raids on One Nation condemned

Police raids on One Nation condemned By Margaret Allum On January 21, offices of the One Nation party in Ipswich, Queensland, and Sydney were raided by the Queensland police major fraud squad and the New South Wales commercial crime squad.

Write on: feature letter

Write on: feature letter Christianity and liberation Barry Healy (GLW #389) is unjustified in criticising Nick Carr and Kate Carr for their article "Why God hates homosexuals and women (and we hate Christmas)" (GLW #388). He charges Nick and