BY BARRY SHEPPARD
SAN FRANCISCO — Editorial writers and TV talking heads have deplored the recall election of Governor Gray Davis in California as anti-democratic and a joke. Californian law allows for a recall election of officials if enough
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BY BILL TULLY
CANBERRA — One of the Canberra Sunday Times supplements of August 24 was a 16-page pictorial panorama, "Recovery: Canberra's journey from the ashes of January 18". At the beginning of August, however, the official "Inquiry into the
BY SUE BOLTON
In a move described by many delegates to the ACTU congress as having echoes of the 1998 waterfront dispute, Qantas on August 19 provocatively introduced three labour-hire workers from the company Blue Collar to work as baggage
BY MAIRE LEADBEATER
AUCKLAND — A forest of West Papuan "Morning Star" flags and chants of "Free West Papua" and "Observer status now" greeted the arriving delegates of the Pacific Islands Forum at the Sheraton Hotel here on August 14. Sixty
BY CHRITINE GAUVREAU
The US-based Labor Art and Mural Project's delegation to Palestine is facing a grave challenge. On August 22, the Israeli authorities — the Israel Defence Force, the Civil Administration and the police department — arrived
Why Do People Hate America?By Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn DaviesIcon Books, $21 (pb)
REVIEW BY DAVE RILEY
If you have ever wondered why the United States ("America") is hated around the world, then maybe you did come down in the last shower.
BY MICHAEL SHAIK
On August 12, a 40-day ceasefire was shattered by two Palestinian suicide bombings in Rosh Ha'ayin in northern Israel and the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the West Bank. Two Israelis were killed and 13 wounded in the attacks. The
BY JEFF SHANTZ
TORONTO — It's high time Ontario's low-income workers received a raise. The minimum wage in Ontario has been frozen at C$6.85/hour ($6.40 for students and $5.95 for liquor servers) throughout the eight brutal years of Tory rule.
BY BRIAN WEBB
Carmen Lawrence, who resigned from the Labor frontbench last December in protest at the party leadership's policies on refugees and the war on Iraq, is now standing for the position of party president.
A postal ballot of all members
BY LIZ FEKETE
LONDON — The European Union Border Control Program, introduced with scant regard to refugee protection and human rights, is leading to an increasing number of deaths on the borders of Europe — and beyond.
Over the last 18
The following speech was presented by LEONEL VIVAS, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's ambassador to Australia, to the August 2 "Latin America: New Movements of Resistance and Transformation" conference in Sydney, organised by the Committees in
BY BUSTER SOUTHERLEY
AUCKLAND — The New Zealand Herald newspaper has sacked its award-winning cartoonist following a censorship row. Malcolm Evans was dismissed after drawing cartoons criticising the Israeli government's treatment of the
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