BY DICK NICHOLS
PORTO ALEGRE — What exactly was the World Social Forum (WSF) that ended here on January 30 after 16 plenaries, 400 workshops, 20 testimonials, and endless concerts, artistic exhibitions and "happenings" dedicated to the theme that
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BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE — The Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) candidates in the February 17 Queensland elections have slammed the decision by 17 National Party candidates to give preferences to the racist One Nation party in the upcoming state
BY JOHN PERCY
At its 19th congress in January, the Democratic Socialist Party decided to support the holding of a second Asia-Pacific international solidarity conference over the 2002 Easter weekend (March 29-April 1).
The 2002 conference — to
BY ALISON DELLIT
January 1 marked the formal end of the 10-year process of "reconciliation" between black and white Australians set up in 1991 by the Hawke Labor government. This process, Labor argued, would address the past injustices inflicted on
BY ALISON DELLIT
Following her participation in the September 26 protests in Prague against the meetings of International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Felicity Martin decided upon her return to Australia she would join the Democratic Socialist
BY GAIL LORD
SYDNEY — Community activists from Richmond, Penrith and across the Blue Mountains are organising to stop a new women's prison from being built in Windsor, on the city's western outskirts. They say the state government should
BY NICK SOUDAKOFF
DARWIN — Twenty spirited demonstrators chanted "Deport Ruddock, not the refugees" in protest at an appearance by the minister for immigration at a meeting here on February 1.
The meeting, attended by 100 people, was part of
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
PORTO ALEGRE Cuban National Assembly president Ricardo Alarcon
reaffirmed the internationalist and socialist perspective of the Cuban
Revolution in a speech from the chair of a thematic panel at the World
Social Forum
Fools of the world, unite!
Each year, we here at Life of Riley Enterprises like to let our hair
down and sponsor a Festival of Fools.
Fools' fests go back for yonks. It was traditionally the one day of
the year
BY SEAN HEALY
The Burmese military regime has revealed that it has been in secret talks with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi since October, the first face-to-face meetings between the Nobel Peace Prize winner and the generals since 1994. But
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