BY NOREEN NAVIN
SYDNEY — The April release of the NSW Labor government's "Building the Future" report has generated a community backlash not seen since former NSW Coalition education minister Terry Metherell took the axe to public education in
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Craig Johnston, the militant
leader of Victoria's Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, has been one
of the Socialist Alliance's strongest backers since the announcement of
its formation. Here is an abridged version of his speech to the
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
For decades peasants, workers, urban poor and indigenous people in all the continents of the global South have fought mining companies, the International Monetary Fund, sweatshop operators and other forms of imperialist
BY SAM FROST & KATHY NEWNAM
ADELAIDE — The United Trades and Labor Council here has decided to back a "Unity Rally Against Corporate Tyranny", which will conclude the Adelaide M1 Alliance's blockade of this city's stock exchange.
The UTLC's
BY NORM DIXON
The Pacific tourist Mecca of Honolulu is to be the next focus of demonstrations against the international capitalist financial institutions — in this case the Asian Development Bank. The ADB's board of governors is to meet at the
BY EVA CHENG
It's not hard to understand why the unauthorised landing of a US spy plane on China's southern Hainan island on April 1 sparked an international diplomatic crisis. Just turn the tables.
Imagine what Washington would have done if a
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
PERTH — Metropolitan bus drivers here are fighting back against years of low pay and worsening conditions. At an April 18 stop-work meeting, drivers from three bus companies — Perth Bus, Path Transit and Southern Coast Transit
BY MALIK MIAH
In mid-March the United States Census Bureau released its official count for the US population. There are 281,421,906 people, as compared to 253,979,140 in 1990. Reflecting a historic trend, non-Hispanic whites declined from 75% to
BY MARIA VOUKELATOS& LAUREN CARROLL HARRIS
"What if she doesn't worry about her body and eats enough for all the growing she has to do? She might rip her stockings and slam dance on a forged ID to the Pogues, and walk home barefoot, holding her
The emergence of anti-capitalist sentiment in the First World, following the protests against the World Trade Organisation meeting in Seattle in 1999, represents a significant crack in the politics of quiescence. It follows years of opposition
BY JOHN McGILL
ADELAIDE — An attempt to sack maintenance workers employed at Mobil's Port Stanvac plant in South Australia was exposed by the Australian on April 12. Mobil is the Australian subsidiary of US-owned oil giant ExxonMobil.
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Universal income
John Tomlinson (GLW #442) calls for a universal citizens' income. The right vehemently opposes this idea, but isn't it being hypocritical?
Conservative Paddy McGuinness (Sydney Morning Herald, February 10) rejects the idea that
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