BY FALEH A. JABAR
The once moribund Iraqi National Congress (INC) has apparently gained a new lease on life. After weeks of intensive talks in Washington, Ahmad Chalabi — leader of the self-appointed Iraqi opposition in exile — visited Iran to
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Global Finance: New Thinking on Regulating Speculative Capital MarketsEdited by Walden Bello, Nicola Bullard and Kamal MalhotraZed Books 244pp., A$48.95
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IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful CorporationBy Edwin Black Little, Brown and Company, 2001519pp., $30 (pb)
IBM, as it delights in telling us, is the "Solutions
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE — Beautiful slides of Cuba were a highlight of a solidarity night held at the Resistance Centre on March 31. The slides were taken by Tim Stewart during his January-February visit to Cuba on the "In the Footsteps of Che"
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — The ACT Trades and Labor Council has decided to back the planned M1 blockade of Mining Industry House and to move its traditional May Day march from the following Saturday, May 5, to May 1 itself.
The TLC voted at its
BY KAREN FREDERICKS
BRISBANE — The decision to blockade the Australian Stock Exchange was the subject of much debate here at the March 31 "Fighting for the Future" conference, with some arguing that the movement needed to be more positive in its
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
BRISBANE — The International Women's Day collective here has launched
a petition campaign to demand that Peter Beattie's Labor state government
repeal 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ of the criminal code which make abortion illegal.
The
BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
Thousands of students took to the streets on April 5 in a national day of action called by the National Union of Students. Students and supporters demanded an end to corporate control of universities, a liveable income for all,
Immigration minister Philip Ruddock's proposed law to allow strip searches
of refugees, increase prison terms for those that flee detention and further
restrict visitor access to detention centres are a disgrace.
Their introduction into
BY SARAH PEART
MELBOURNE — Activists here have begun to consider what should happen after the M1 blockade of stock exchanges, with many participants in a "Global Action" conference here on March 31 welcoming a proposal for a September 11, 2001,
East Timorese band Five from the East performing at Darwin's March 31 Rage Against Racism band night, organised by the socialist youth organisation Resistance. Despite persistent rain, 350 people attended the event and raised $1500 for 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳
BY SUE BOLAND
Shock! Horror! Media magnate Rupert Murdoch's hired mouthpieces at the Australian have accused the Coalition government and the Labor Party of turning on big business, in particular the banks.
While the Murdoch family doesn't own
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