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Review: The Full Montezuma

The Full Montezuma: Around Central America and the Caribbean with the Girl Next DoorBy Peter MooreBantam Books 2000 Reviewed by Jackie Coleman Australian travel writer, Peter Moore's The Full Montezuma, is an account of a six-month overland trip

Detention of refugees condemned

BY MARCUS PABIAN& TONY ILTIS MELBOURNE — About 300 people packed the Trades Hall auditorium on February 20 to oppose the federal government's policy of imprisoning refugees. The meeting, organised by the Refugee Action Collective, demanded that

SOUTH AFRICA: Welcome to the 'new' Johannesburg

BY PATRICK BOND  JOHANNESBURG — If you had a choice, which city would you choose to host the 2002 “World Summit on Sustainable Development” — also known as Rio+10 — in which 60,000 delegates will jaw-jaw about the world's social and

Union support for M1 grows

BY SEAN HEALY Support for the May 1 blockades of stock exchanges and financial districts continues to grow, including amongst trade unions. Progress is most advanced in Victoria where a number of militant unions are growing increasingly keen on

Accord ends Ecuadoran Indian uprising

At 2pm on February 7, Ecuadoran indigenous leaders signed a 23-point accord with President Gustavo Noboa Bejarano, ending an indigenous uprising against economic policies imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The uprising started on

Tommy Sheridan: Taking sides

Imagine: a Socialist Vision for the 21st Century By Tommy Sheridan and Allan McCombes Canongate Books, Edinburgh, 2001 $21 Available in March from Resistance bookshops (see page 2) Visit <http://www.dsp.org.au/rb/rb.htm>. 

On the box

Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9-11pm. Ph 9565 5522. That's Why I'm Working — Examines child

IWD Collective debates men's support

BY JANINE CURR SYDNEY — On February 19, the International Women's Day Collective debated, for the third time in as many weeks, the question of whether men should be encouraged to participate in the IWD rally and march on March 10. The

BRITAIN: Rights groups protest anti-terrorism law

BY MARGARET ALLUM Human rights advocates are outraged by new legislation redefining the concept "terrorism", allowing for the banning of organisations considered terrorist and reversing the burden of proof, which was passed by the British

Left unites to form Socialist Alliance

BY SEAN HEALY  The word is out. The Australian left is on a roll. Fresh from the inspiration of S11, when tens of thousands confronted the world's power brokers at Melbourne's Crown Casino, and with plans well underway for mass

Protest as development on Aboriginal land passed

BY BRONWYN POWELL WOLLONGONG — Three hundred people sat in on Wollongong City Council's February 19 meeting and watched in anger as council approved the first stage of a 428-lot residential development at Sandon Point in Thirroul. The council

Sweet, sensual delight

ChocolatWith Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Johnny Depp and Lena OlinDirected by Lasse HolstromPalace Cinemas, Sydney, other states to follow REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM I saw Chocolat on Valentine's Day. So too, it seemed, did a good