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BY GREG HARRIS & MARGARET ALLUM With Westminster elections likely to be called for May 3, Tony Blair's British Labour Party appears to be reaching the limits of government by image management. Leaving aside questions of ministerial competence and
BY NORM DIXON President Fidel Castro on March 18 announced that Cuba has produced versions of anti-AIDS medicines patented by US drug corporations. He said Cuba was prepared to help South Africa, Brazil and other Third World countries to produce
Don't be despondent about 'dependency' BY JOHN TOMLINSON Some people in Australia are concerned about the painful brain condition called “dependency”. However, the only people who contract this condition are those who believe that the
“James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA, dumbfounded many at a guest lecture when he advanced his theory about a link between skin color and sex drive.” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 25, 2000. My attention was caught recently by
BY SEAN HEALY Anti-globalisation protesters demonstrated in their thousands on March 17 in the southern Italian city of Naples against the Global Forum, a meeting of government officials and representatives of the largest information technology
BY LISA MACDONALD SYDNEY — The thirst for information, discussion and debate about issues facing the world's people and ecology in the era of neo-liberal globalisation was strongly evident at a "Fighting for the Future" conference held in Sydney
BY PIP HINMAN The Indonesian military is stepping up its war against the Acehnese people. Jakarta has declared a "limited military operation" to "rid" Aceh of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM). The Indonesian government has branded GAM a "separatist"
BY NORM DIXON South African President Thabo Mbeki on March 14 declined to declare South Africa's debilitating AIDS epidemic a national emergency. Such a declaration would have allowed Pretoria to immediately invoke World Trade Organisation
Invisible War: Depleted Uranium and the politics of radiationSBS, April 3, 8.30pm REVIEW BY JIM GREEN Invisible War, produced by the French company Canal Plus and released in February last year, investigates the use of depleted uranium (DU)
The Laramie ProjectBy Moises KaufmanBelvoir Street Theatre, SydneyUntil April 15 REVIEW BY MARK STOYICH In 1998, near the town of Laramie in the US state of Wyoming, two young men tortured a young gay man, Matt Shepard, and left him for dead. The
BY JIM MCILROY BRISBANE — Community and Public Sector Union members in Centrelink offices and call centres around the country met during the week of March 19-23 to vote on a resolution from their union to launch a "community based campaign" to
BY JOHN GAUCI SYDNEY — The large turnout of 230 people for a March 17 dinner and public meeting here on issue "Free Aceh, Referendum now!" is an indication of growing interest in the struggle in Aceh among the Australian public. The event was