BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY When I first heard about the idea of the Socialist Alliance,
these old bones straightened up a bit. I wanted to know more about it.
I wanted to be able to participate with tens of thousands of others to
change the
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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 TIM STEWART
BRISBANE — The M1 Alliance here has sent a letter to Queensland premier Peter Beattie and to the commissioner of police asking them to ensure that police officers exercise restraint and don't repeat the violent assaults of their
BY JIM GREEN
The best excuse that Western corporate polluters and their political allies have devised to justify their efforts to wreck the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions is that it does not mandate reductions in the countries of the
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.
According
All out on M1!
Something special will happen on May 1. For the first time ever in Australia,
thousands of people will take action, simultaneously across the country,
against the stock exchange, the symbolic heart and soul
BY PATRICIA CORCORAN
Refugees are demanding to be freed from their imprisonment in immigration detention centres around the country and from the fear of being deported back to persecution. They are demanding protection and sanctuary. Here are 10
BY TANYA VANAJA
DILI — East Timor's social and political tensions may boil over into violence during elections scheduled for August, the country's first since it gained freedom from Indonesian military rule in 1999.
Riots have broken out in two
BY IGGY KIM
SEOUL — Hundreds of riot police have attacked 400 workers laid off by the troubled Korean car manufacturer Daewoo, injuring 70, in an attempt to prevent the workers gaining entry to their own union office. But their assault may have
TrafficStars Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta JonesDirected by Steven SoderberghAt all major cinemas.
REVIEWED BY STUART MUNCKTON
Traffic, the latest film by director Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich), uses a series of
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