One of the most enthusiastic peace monitors at the April 2 Books
Not Bombs protest in Sydney was Doris Owens, 65. Owens was one of 11 people
charged with treason for urging young people not to register for the
military
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SYDNEY — The April 2 Books Not Bombs student anti-war protest in Sydney is the latest of several peaceful political demonstrations to be declared "unlawful" in the last six months by the NSW Labor government, led by Premier Bob
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SYDNEY — The racist hysteria and red-baiting by the pro-war media were to be expected after the police aggression during Sydney's Books Not Bombs protest on March 26. The following resolution, however, adopted on March 27 without a
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GLASGOW The Scottish Socialist Party may win up to eight candidates in the May 1 elections for the Scottish parliament. At the very least, sole SSP parliamentarian Tommy Sheridan told the annual SSP conference on February
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Police raided the Kuala Lumpur office of malaysiakini.com, a progressive and independent web site, and seized computers on January 20. Ten hours later, while a protest vigil was being held outside the office, the site was up again,
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In real political terms the most important development in the November 30 Victorian election was the doubling of the Greens' vote — to 9.2% in the lower house and 10.3% in the upper house — and their beating the Liberals to win
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As the possibilities for deeper left unity is being debated within the Socialist Alliance, the Socialist Alternative (SAlt) group has written to the International Socialist Organisation (ISO) to suggest unity talks between the two
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As the once seemingly ever-exuberant US stock market plunges (Wall Street stocks have lost US$7 trillion in value since March 2000) and more reports of big business scandals dominate the headlines, establishment economic commentators
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No just business as usual, Economist magazine, East India Company, Daniel Drew, South Sea Company, Mississippi Company, Wall Street, John Law"> WorldCom: media excuses corporate greedIn the wake of the US$3.8 billion WorldCom
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The world has never produced so much food, there is no overall shortage and food has seldom been so cheap — yet some 800 million people are hungry today. That's the stark reality registered at the second World Food Summit held in
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There is a painful image from East Timor that remains engraved in my mind. It is the footage of Timorese throwing their children over the razor wire fence of the UN compound, then scrambling up the side of a hill dragging
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The indications from around the world are that the movement against globalised capitalist power has not been cowed by the United States' military and ideological offensive that masquerades as the post-September 11 "war against