CHRIS BAMBERY, national secretary of the British Socialist Workers Party (SWP), spoke to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's PETER BOYLE on September 5. Bambery was in Sydney to attend the International Socialist Organisation's Marxism 2003 conference.
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BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — For the past few weeks, I have been watching videotapes of the US-led attack on Iraq. Most of the tapes have not bee shown in Britain. They concentrate on the epic suffering of ordinary Iraqis. There are photographs, too,
BY EVA CHENG
On September 5, the Hong Kong government indefinitely shelved its highly controversial anti-subversion law (Article 23 of the Basic Law, the territory's quasi-constitution) after a series of massive protests since December. Article 23
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — Talk to any Victorian teacher and you are likely to get the same story — the job's getting harder. Most of us are working longer hours, with more responsibilities and our pay rate is barely moving. More teachers are
Delegates to the annual British Trade Union Congress conference on September 10 unanimously backed a motion calling for "work through the United Nations for the withdrawal without delay of coalition troops and for control of Iraq to be given to the
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
CANBERRA — Preparations have begun to make the protests against US President George Bush as large as possible. Bush will visit Canberra sometime after the October 21 APEC meeting held in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third WorldBy Mike DavisVerso 2002464 pages, $48
REVIEWED BY DAVE RILEY
While drought is considered a natural phenomenon, famine is not so easily blamed on the elements. It may be
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