20 years' jail for possession of a leaflet
By Karen Fredericks
BRISBANE — The Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) candidate in the Mundingburra by-election, Billy Tate, was charged on February 20 with possession of drug law reform literature.
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Socialists reject work for dole for Brisbane City Council
Socialists reject work for dole for Brisbane City Council
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — "We are standing against the two major parties on a platform of People Before Profits", Coral Wynter
A question of priorities
In New Zealand last week for talks on trade and "defence" links, PM John Howard took on the job of trying to persuade New Zealanders that it really is in their interests to spend millions more dollars on defence — and in
Swaziland democracy strikers hold firm
By Norm Dixon
Mass meetings of striking Swaziland workers in the vital sugar and forestry industries voted on February 16 to continue a general strike into its third week. The strikers, organised by the
Arnott's workers the 'innocent victims'
By James Vassilopoulos
Contrary to last week's claim by Arnott's Biscuits' managing director Chris Roberts that the company is the "innocent victim" in the current extortion attempt, the real innocent
The future of solidarityThe future of solidarity
By Peter Boyle
Federal and state governments are doing their best to abolish solidarity. It's against their law for workers for one capitalist to show their solidarity with workers of other
By Eva Cheng
The February 12 defection to South Korea of Hwang Jang-yop, a member of the central committee of the ruling North Korean Workers' Party, is being treated by the western media as evidence that the regime in Pyongyang is near collapse.
Lenin and the Revolutionary PartyBy Paul Le BlancWith an introduction by Ernest MandelHumanities Press, 1990, 1993. 417 pp. $40 (pb) Review by Karl Miller
This book is an excellent, detailed study of the Bolshevik party. Le Blanc examines the
details = The Captive Republic: A history of republicanism in Australia 1788-1996By Mark McKennaCambridge University Press, 1996334 pp., $29.95(pb), $90.00(hb)
Review by Alex Bainbridge
For many people, the republic debate is simply a bore — a
Reversing capitalism
As much as I applaud Alex Bainbridge's sentiment that "all that is needed is for humanity as a whole, rather than the wealthy profiteers, to control production", I am anxious to know how he intends to wrest that control? While
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