By Stephen Marks
In shanty towns outside Buenos Aires, the French-Argentine water company Aguas Argentinas has "encouraged" communities to voluntarily dig ditches and lay pipes to connect their homes to the water mains. Privatised water companies
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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
BY EVA CHENG
There has been such a big wave of domestic and cross-border corporate mergers and takeovers in the last few years that some commentators have started comparing their importance with the merger wave that took place in the US around the
BY LUKE FOMIATTI
SYDNEY — Early on the morning of February 19, 100 students and unionists joined together for a symbolic blockade of the "Designing, launching and managing a corporate university" conference at a luxury hotel in the exclusive
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>.
By Pat Brewer
2001 has been declared as the year of international solidarity against
the 41-year US economic, financial and trade blockade, the Cuban Adjustment
Act and all the supporting laws and regulations designed to isolate Cuba
By Neville Spencer
Over the last decade, neoliberal regimes compliant to the needs of Washington have been established in almost all the countries of Latin America with exception of Cuba. However, the election of left-populist Hugo Chavez in
BY SEAN HEALY
The word is out. The Australian left is on a roll. Fresh from the
inspiration of S11, when tens of thousands confronted the world's power
brokers at Melbourne's Crown Casino, and with plans well underway for mass
It can be hard to be a feminist in the 21st century. We face the myth that women are liberated and that we no longer need to fight. We are often asked questions like, "Why do you bother? Women were liberated in the '60s when they all burnt their bras
BY ALISON DELLIT
Avoiding Pauline Hanson these days is an impossible task. Her face looms from the mainstream papers every day and then pops up again on the TV news at night. Her image is more prevelant than any other politician in the corporate
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