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REVIEW BY STUART MUNCKTON
"Writing songs about the war is like throwing peanuts at a gorilla", Tom Waits told the Los Angeles Times in August. "But then I think, look how important soul music was during
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NT Police Photo of Douglas Scott (#5). The position of the sheet conflicts with the injury depicted in photo #19. This also shows what appears to be cotton wool in the left ear, denied by Dr Kevin Lee.From 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, December 1, 2004.
INDIA: Left sweeps university election
The left-wing All-India Students' Federation won the president's position of the student union at Jawaharlal Nehru University in late October. It is the first time the AISF has won the position in 30 years.
Sue Bull
The Eureka Stockade at Ballarat on December 3, 1854, has become the most celebrated rebellion in Australian history. Anyone who considers themselves as progressive sees it as a decisive event in the development of democracy within this
Jorge Jorquera
A national civic strike demanding land redistribution has come to an end in Paraguay, with hundreds of campesinos (rural workers) still imprisoned and none of the demands of the strike met, not withstanding continuing promises by
BRITAIN: Students strike against racism
On November 25, the day after racist chanting marred an England-Spain soccer international, French teacher Sebastian Gnahore somewhat apprehensively went to work at his school in Leicester. Gnahore had
CHILE: Thousands protest APEC
Tens of thousands of Chileans turned out over three days to protest the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Chile. The biggest march was on November 19, organised by the Chilean Social Forum and attended by
David Bacon, San Francisco
Sometimes the fate of a single battle foretells the outcome of a war, long before it's over. The end of the San Francisco hotel lockout promises to be this kind of watershed moment.
On November 20, minutes before
Chris Slee, Melbourne
Daryl Croke, who works as a swimming teacher, coach and lifeguard at a leisure centre in the Moreland area, told a November 24 meeting in Brunswick that understaffing endangers the lives of swimmers at many Melbourne pools.
Palestine
Members of Socialist Alliance have every reason to be proud of Kim Bullimore and Rihab Charida who have left the safety of Sydney to enter the most dangerous regions of the Middle East to report to the Australian public about the
Stuart Munckton
On November 18, two bombs ripped through a car in Caracas, killing 38-year-old state prosecutor Danilo Anderson. Anderson was leading the campaign to bring to justice those responsible for the April 2002 military coup that briefly
Dean Mighell
I've been attending the Eureka celebrations in Ballarat for many years. Historians and academics — and even left-wing activists, some of them in the trade union movement — often argue about the aims and motives of the miners who
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