Once the news broke in Australia about the police and militia attack on the Asia Pacific People's Solidarity conference in Indonesia on June 8 and the detention of conference participants, friends and relatives of the detainees in
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The 21 adult Australian residents detained by the Indonesian police June 8-9 have sent an open letter to foreign minister Alexander Downer, demanding that the Australian government issue a statement condemning the Indonesian
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Shock! Horror! Media magnate Rupert Murdoch's hired mouthpieces at the Australian have accused the Coalition government and the Labor Party of turning on big business, in particular the banks. While the Murdoch family doesn't own
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Many people said it at the time of the 1998 election, many more are now saying it but still the government, and even the official "opposition", still deny the truth: no amount of compensation or exemptions can ever make the goods and
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As recently as December, most journalists predicted that Prime Minister John Howard's federal Coalition government would be assured of victory at the next federal election while federal Labor opposition leader Kim Beazley was a
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The Democrats' leadership battle between current leader Senator Meg Lees and challenger Senator Natasha Stott Despoja was sparked by the party's poor results in the recent Western Australian and Queensland state elections where they
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The quality of the majority of women's lives in the next few years will largely hinge on the success or failure of the international movement against neo-liberal globalisation. Neo-liberal policies such as privatisation of
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Just before Christmas, most newspaper columnists were writing off Labor's chances in the next federal election. It had no alternative policies, it was crippled by electoral rorting allegations and it had not a hope. Now, after
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The question on everyone's lips is, are the Coalition parties on the skids? This question can be answered by looking at the voting patterns since Prime Minister John Howard's federal Coalition government was first elected in
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One of the main claims made about the capitalist system by its defenders is that it is based on freedom of choice. If this was true, then the capitalist rulers in the United States and other countries would not go to such
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Governments don't mind if their policies are unpopular with the majority of the population, as long as the only reaction they provoke is passive grumbling. What they don't want is for widespread grumbling to turn into active and
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Capital isn't the only thing globalising. The revolutionary left is also, on the basic premise that if capitalist ruling classes play off working people in one country against working people in another, then the solution is