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Write on: Letters to the editor

Melbourne M1 "Hundreds of ordinary workers were unable to access the building for several hours", stated the Melbourne Herald Sun's May 2 editorial (headed "A misguided mob"), referring to the May 1 blockade of the immigration department offices at

UNITED STATES: A creative way to define democracy

BY LANCE SELFA CHICAGO — People all over Latin America must have let out a hearty laugh when they heard US national security adviser Condoleezza Rice lecture Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez about his post-coup need to "uphold constitutional

PALESTINE: 'Intifada will continue until independence!'

BY AHMED NIMER RAMALLAH — One month into Israel's all-out assault on the Palestinian people of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Palestinian activists are attempting to address questions that are being more sharply posed than at any time in the

PALESTINE: Israel covers up ethnic cleansing

BY ROHAN PEARCE "It should be clear to us that there is no room in Palestine for these two peoples. No 'development' will bring us to our goal of independent nationhood in this small country. Without the Arabs, the land will become wide and

PAKISTAN: Public sector workers' strike

BY LISA MACDONALD A strike of public sector workers, launched on April 15 in Quetta, Baluchistan, continues to paralyse life in the city. Led by the militant Baluchistan Civil Secretariat Staff Association (BCSSA), the strike involves paramedics,

IRAQ: CIA picks war criminal to replace Hussein

BY NORM DIXON Iraq's President Saddam Hussein is the “only leader in the world to have used chemical weapons against his own people” — this has become a mantra repeated by US President George Bush, British PM Tony Blair, Bush's political

CUBA: Mexican president offers goat

BY KAREN FLETCHER HAVANA — It's every host's nightmare: US President George Bush refuses to come if Cuban President Fidel Castro is there, and there will be the usual pack of terrorists and hired assassins who try to murder Castro whenever

1000 march on May 1

BY CAMILO JORQUERA GEELONG — Almost 1000 people, mainly members of the the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) and the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), gathered to commemorate May Day on May 1 for the first time

The politics of the South African 'transition'

South Africa, Limits to Change: The Political Economy of TransitionBY HEIN MARAISJuta AcademicCape Town, 2001Ordering enquires at <education@juta.co.za> or visit <http://www.juta.co.za> REVIEW BY CHRIS BOLSMANN Hein Marais'

Health care and income protection for all

Health care and income protection for all Despite the federal government's $35 million handout to insurance fund United Medical Protection in March, on April 29 UMPÂ’s directors announced its provisional liquidation. The collapse of the

Loose cannons

Free World I “[The United States'] goal is not combating a rival, but maintaining our imperial position, and maintaining imperial order... we are in the business of bringing down hostile governments and creating governments favorable

M1 protesters defiant in face of police violence

BY TAMARA PEARSON & SIMON TAYLER SYDNEY — In a passionate show of defiance against police and media condemnation of militant protests, pro-refugee, anti-corporate and pro-Palestine activists converged on the Sydney offices of Australasian