Peter Boyle

  • Why corporate rulers fear the new people's movement

    Since the anti-World Trade Organisation protests in Seattle last November, a growing popular movement against corporate globalisation has taken to the streets several times around the world: Washington in April, Philadelphia and Los

  • Workers' action needed to solve fuel crisis

    Through militant action, with massive public support, truck drivers, farmers and fisherpeople have forced the French government to back down and reduce the price of fuel. This militant example has inspired protests throughout

  • S11 shows: there is an alternative

    The September 18 issue of the Melbourne Age carried an article by former left activist John Passant, who warned: "Kim Beazley should be worried. The events in Melbourne last week represent a long-term political threat to the ALP ...

  • S11 spells trouble for Labor

    Thousands of activists from the mass social movements of the last three decades joined with younger activists in a massive show of strength at the S11 blockade. It was a profoundly empowering event that revitalised faith in "people's

  • Socialists and the S11 blockade

    The S11 blockade of the World Economic Forum meeting was an important opportunity for the parties of the left in Australia.

  • Get serious about ending corporate tyranny

    Join the Democratic Socialist PartyFour months after the Seattle protests, representatives of Third World governments met in Cuba for the G77 South Summit Conference. Cuban President Fidel Castro's address to that gathering

  • Media spin the growing rich-poor divide

    Rupert Murdoch's Australian newspaper has been running a series of articles on the impact of economic deregulation in Australia. Entitled “Advance Australia where”, it analyses the results of studies commissioned from the

  • INDIA/PAKISTAN: Cruel borders

    Less than a month ago, Peter Boyle walked the sad and dusty one-kilometre stretch of the only open land border crossing between Pakistan and India, at Wagha.

  • Carr Labor excludes small parties from elections

    SYDNEY — The Carr Labor government of NSW has passed legislation making it almost impossible for political smaller parties without a lot of money to run in state elections. All parties will have to pay $2000 to register and submit

  • NSW election a setback for privatisers

    SYDNEY — You wouldn't know it from the establishment media's coverage of the result of the March 27 NSW state election, but its greatest significance was the rebuff of the ruling class's privatisation drive by a whopping 56% of

  • NSW elections: who are you really voting for?

    NSW elections: who are you really voting for?SYDNEY — So you've decided to vote against the Liberal-Labor establishment in the March 27 NSW elections and you want to support green and left parties. With a Legislative Council

  • Is Hansonism finished?

    Is Hansonism finished?The sudden resignation of a Queensland MP is the latest of a string of setbacks for the far-right Pauline Hanson's One Nation, but it is too early to write off this party. Ever since the mid-1970s, the