Peter Boyle

  • 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

  • Prospects for resistance to the new Howard government

    Prospects for resistance to the new Howard governmentThere will be no shortage of attacks on the working class from the Coalition government in its second term: the GST, further austerity and privatisation and the second wave of

  • The 'new' John Howard

    The Howard government returns with very little political legitimacy. That's why PM John Howard is now desperately trying to refashion his image. He's changed! No more Mr Apologist-For-Pauline-Hanson. Now (after he has nearly

  • The left vote in the federal elections

    The socialist vote declined in the October 3 federal election, reflecting the swing back to the ALP in traditional Labor seats, where most of the 39 left candidates stood. The Greens and the Australian Democrats also suffered a

  • Why only 7% believe politicians' promises

    OZIf one thing is predictable about the October 3 election, it is that the winning party will not have the enthusiastic support of a majority of people. Labor or Coalition will have been pushed over the line mainly by the fear