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BY AL GIORDANO While it is front-page news in South America, US President George Bush's half-billion dollar increase in funds for Plan Colombia — complete with a public relations facelift and attempted name change — has flown under the radar of
BY KAREN FLETCHER BRISBANE — The M1 Alliance has issued a call for nominations for "Corporate Scumbag of the Week" in the lead up to the blockade of the Brisbane stock exchange on May 1. The campaign was launched and warmly received at the
At the founding meeting of the Socialist Alliance on February 17, representatives of the eight founding parties — the Democratic Socialist Party, the International Socialist Organisation, Workers Power, Workers Liberty, the Workers League, the
Cruelty "[Abdurrahman Wahid's] advisers have taken to placing a vibrating mobile phone in his pocket so they can call and wake him during meetings." — The Washington Post on the Indonesian president's habit of falling asleep when he is bored.
BY MICHELLE BREAR SYDNEY — Workers are continuing their actions against swimming costume manufacturer Speedo, which shut the doors of its South Windsor factory on March 2, leaving 65 workers without jobs. Sixty of the workers were women who had
Imagine you are sitting your year 12 exam. Girls sit at the tables with pink-coloured test papers, while boys sit at the tables with the blue test papers. It may sound ridiculous, but this is exactly what is being proposed by the president of the
BY PETER REID The presence of mobile phone facilities in built-up areas, particularly near houses, schools and hospitals, often triggers fierce resistance from local residents and community groups, mirroring public disquiet nationwide over the
S11 DocoWritten, produced and directed by Charlie Hill-Smith, Cindy Elliot & Pat Stirling$8Order a copy by email at <charlie@cobweb.com.au> StruggleKineticDistributed by MGM Records BY SEAN HEALY I've spent most of the last six months
MELBOURNE — Feminist and socialist activist SURMA HAMID, from the Committee in Defence of Iraqi Women's Rights, has been active in the campaign to close Australia's immigration detention centres. In February, she was detained by Greek immigration
BY MARIA VOUKELATOS SYDNEY — One hundred women wheel 1950s prams, wearing neatly styled hair, respectable knee-length dresses and big smiles on their faces. It sounds like a scene from a B-grade documentary from 40 years ago telling women of the

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