Kathy Newnam, Mumbai
One of the largest contingents to the World Social Forum (WSF) in Mumbai was from the Pakistan Social Forum (PSF). With nearly 400 delegates, it was the largest delegation of Pakistanis that has been to India for a specific
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Don Monkerud
High suicide rates among soldiers in Iraq should come as no surprise. Anyone who remembers America's last colonial-style war or who walks the nation's streets knows how Vietnam War veterans continue to suffer long after the last shot
REVIEW BY BEN REID
The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular CultureBy Roger LancasterUniversity of California Press, 2003442 pages, $60
Surely but subtly, an alliance of poor science and the popular media has established a new
HOBART — A recent Newspoll on woodchipping commissioned by Doctors for Forests has drawn angry responses from the forestry industry and Liberal and Labor state politicians. More than 85% of the 1200 people interviewed across Australia said they
The Crass Motor ShowKeep Left TheatreFebruary 18-28, Victorian Trades Hall, Carlton$15/$10Book on (03) 9489 1096 or visit <http://www.theatre.keep-left.org>.
REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN & JULIE SMITH
MELBOURNE — The Crass Motor Show is a
Sarah Stephen
Drunken brawls marred this year's Australia Day fireworks show on Perth's waterfront, with groups of intoxicated young men chasing each other down the city streets bent on violence. Fifty people were taken to hospital.
The ethnicity
REVIEW BY OWEN RICHARDS
Our BoysDirected by Kerry BrewsterProduced and edited by Andrea LangScreening on ABC TV8pm, February 10
A new television documentary series about marginalised students in the public education system gives the lie to Prime
On January 17, former diplomat Tony Kevin revealed that Australian SAS forces in Iraq had engaged in a "turkey shoot" against Iraqi troops — 30 hours before US President George Bush's declaration of war. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's Nick Everett spoke to
Shua Garfield, Hobart
University of Tasmania student Munyaradzi "Munya" Chiramiro is facing deportation to Zimbabwe after incorrectly completing a bridging visa application. Munya has lived in Hobart since mid-2001 and is one semester short of
James Crafti, Melbourne
At 7pm on January 17, a special edition of Melbourne Age newspaper listing the first round of university offers was released. The cover of the paper had a cartoon of a small young person reaching up to grab a key from a
Simon Butler, Newcastle
The state of the refugee rights movement and the role local governments can play in strengthening it were the themes of a public meeting hosted by the Newcastle branch of the Socialist Alliance on January 28.
Steve
Russian left and KPRF
Tom Freeman (Write On, GLW #566) provides a curious gloss on the article in GLW #565 in which Boris Kagarlitsky discusses the Future of the Left conference held by Russian oppositionists last November in the town of Golitsyno,
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