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PORTUGAL: 'Globalise the struggles'
SAN GIAO — A huge banner with the words "Globalizar as lutas" (Globalise the struggles) heralded the 17th youth camp of the Fourth International, held in San Giao in central Portugal, July 23-29. Around 400
ADF gets five red stars
Community MusicAsian Dub FoundationLondon Records<http://www.asiandubfoundation.com> REVIEW BY DANIEL SULLIVAN
What could one expect from a band which has toured supporting Rage Against the Machine and worked
Networker: An Olympic performance
In recent years, the Olympic Games have been a showplace for the latest technology. Computer technology companies compete to provide hundreds of millions of dollars worth of equipment and services free in
Feature letter: Biological parenthood
I have keenly followed the debate on "biological parenthood" (GLW #405, 408, 409, 413). The argument that there is a "biological" imperative to bear and raise one's "own" children, while superficially
Students occupy in IVF protest
BY ANGELA LUVERA
BRISBANE — Students from various political persuasions — socialists, Laborites, anarchists — united to protest against John Howard's plan to restrict access to in vitro fertilisation by
Write on: Letters to the editor
Vilifying
Not content with vilifying many of the unemployed, conservatives have moved on to sole parent pensioners.
In Sydney's Daily Telegraph of July 29, Michael Duffy whinged about people "receiving the single
Why have an ALP conference?
BY SUE BOLAND
Why does the ALP hold national conferences? With almost all the votes sewn up before the conference and virtually all the delegates being MPs, party apparatchiks and union officials, it cannot be to
Big protest, little politics
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — "Greenies don't want to take away jobs, we want to save jobs and forests" was the best message that came from the platform of a rally against woodchipping here on August 2. The plea for
International news briefs
WTO recognises asbestos danger
World Trade Organisation officials are claiming a new trade ruling on asbestos proves that the body is not, as critics claim, stacked in favour of business interests.
A WTO dispute
The rise and degeneration of Polish Solidarity
BY CHRIS SLEE
Twenty years ago, on August 14, a strike began at the Lenin shipyards in Gdansk, Poland, which led to the birth of the independent Solidarity trade union movement. This movement went on
On July 15, 100 people protested outside England's Harmondsworth Detention Centre in solidarity with the asylum seekers imprisoned there. Most of the inmates are from poverty and war-stricken Third World countries outside Europe. The protest was
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