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Crisis for Coalition as ALP sweeps Qld election

BY JIM McILROY BRISBANE — Panic is sweeping the Liberal-National Coalition around the country after the crushing ALP victory in the February 17 Queensland state elections. As Green Left Weekly goes to print, the Labor Party has won 66 out of a

Union support for M1 grows

BY SEAN HEALY Support for the May 1 blockades of stock exchanges and financial districts continues to grow, including amongst trade unions. Progress is most advanced in Victoria where a number of militant unions are growing increasingly keen on

MEXICO: Zapatistas march for indigenous justice

BY DICK NICHOLS MEXICO CITY — The leaders of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), headed by Subcomandante Marcos, are to emerge from Chiapas, the southernmost Mexican state where they led their famous 1994 uprising of the region's

IRAQ: US escalates 'hidden' war

BY NORM DIXON The February 16 bombing of Baghdad by US and British warplanes was a calculated signal by US President George W. Bush's regime that it will continue - and escalate - the genocidal war against the Iraqi people begun by the US

Western Sydney IWD fighting for global justice

BY GAIL LORD PARRAMATTA — After staging the first International Women's Day march and rally in Parramatta for 30 years in 2000, feminists in Sydney's western suburbs are organising an even bigger IWD action on March 8 with the theme, "Women

IWD Collective debates men's support

BY JANINE CURR SYDNEY — On February 19, the International Women's Day Collective debated, for the third time in as many weeks, the question of whether men should be encouraged to participate in the IWD rally and march on March 10. The

Review: The Full Montezuma

The Full Montezuma: Around Central America and the Caribbean with the Girl Next DoorBy Peter MooreBantam Books 2000 Reviewed by Jackie Coleman Australian travel writer, Peter Moore's The Full Montezuma, is an account of a six-month overland trip

Detention of refugees condemned

BY MARCUS PABIAN& TONY ILTIS MELBOURNE — About 300 people packed the Trades Hall auditorium on February 20 to oppose the federal government's policy of imprisoning refugees. The meeting, organised by the Refugee Action Collective, demanded that

SOUTH AFRICA: Welcome to the 'new' Johannesburg

BY PATRICK BOND  JOHANNESBURG — If you had a choice, which city would you choose to host the 2002 “World Summit on Sustainable Development” — also known as Rio+10 — in which 60,000 delegates will jaw-jaw about the world's social and

Sweet, sensual delight

ChocolatWith Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Johnny Depp and Lena OlinDirected by Lasse HolstromPalace Cinemas, Sydney, other states to follow REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM I saw Chocolat on Valentine's Day. So too, it seemed, did a good

Accord ends Ecuadoran Indian uprising

At 2pm on February 7, Ecuadoran indigenous leaders signed a 23-point accord with President Gustavo Noboa Bejarano, ending an indigenous uprising against economic policies imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The uprising started on

Tommy Sheridan: Taking sides

Imagine: a Socialist Vision for the 21st Century By Tommy Sheridan and Allan McCombes Canongate Books, Edinburgh, 2001 $21 Available in March from Resistance bookshops (see page 2) Visit <http://www.dsp.org.au/rb/rb.htm>.