You would think that discussions in the Australian capitalist press about politics in the coming year would be exhibiting some excitement.
After all, there is going to be a federal election and several state elections. Most bourgeois economists
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BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Two bills, passed into law at the end of 2000, reveal just how thoroughly former militant unionist Premier Jim Bacon has been tamed by business. The workers' compensation act and the industrial relations act have both
BY MARGARET ALLUM
On January 12, a delegation of 50 US activists and scientists, led by US former attorney general Ramsey Clark, boarded a flight to Bagdad. The plane also carried US$1.5 million worth of medical aid and school supplies. The
BY FAROOQ SULEHRIA
In its first major electoral success, the Labour Party Pakistan has bagged 12 local council seats in the Sindhi town of Larkana, home town and power base of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. One party candidate also won in
On why so many people attempt to move to Australia: "For some it might be the excitement and challenge of testing their resourcefulness" — National Press Club speech, March 3, 1998.
On torture: Ruddock rejected Amnesty International's demand that
BY MEENA NANJI
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — I am buzzing through the streets in an auto rickshaw with a woman whose real name I do not know. She has no fixed address and cannot tell me where we are going. The woman accompanying me was a member of RAWA,
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BY FRANCES SHEEHAN & SARAH CLEARY
Taking up the theme "Women fighting for global justice", the International Women's Day 2001 collectives have been launched in Sydney and Hobart. The Sydney collective is organising a political action for Saturday
BY SUE BOLAND
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
Write on: letters to the editor
One elector, one vote
The widespread resentment against the unfairness of Australia's electoral
system, which almost guarantees the exclusion of small political parties
and independents from state and
BY RUSSELL MOKHIBER AND ROBERT WEISSMAN
This year, rushing to the head of the pack of irresponsible biotech companies was the French corporation Aventis, the maker of Cry9C corn, sold under the name StarLink.
Earlier this year, StarLink corn —
BY SUE BOLAND
It is getting harder and harder to organise international conferences of the left these days. Rich imperialist governments have taken to routinely denying visas to delegates from Third World countries, even when those delegates have
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