BY ALISON DELLIT
As the 2001 federal election approaches, immigration minister Philip
Ruddock has signalled that the government intends to make racist scapegoating
of refugees a central part of its re-election strategy.
Launching the
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BY REEM HALAWANI
As the Palestinian intifada enters its eighth month, the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon remains intransigently against granting any concessions to the Palestinians. Instead, it has escalated its attacks on the occupied
BY KATHY NEWNAM
ADELAIDE — Following the overwhelming success of Adelaide's M1 blockade of the Australian Stock Exchange, more than 500 people joined the annual May Day parade here on May 5.
A spirited contingent of Socialist Alliance members
Under the headline "Murdoch supports May Day — Oh yeah!", Rob Gowland wrote in the May 2 edition of the Guardian, weekly paper of the Communist Party of Australia:
"On Friday, April 27, The Australian, flagship of the Murdoch press and a paper
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BY KAREN FLETCHER
Law and order politics have been the ticket to success for many an ignorant and talent-less politician or media "commentator". A really
BY VIV MILEY
As if the federal government wasn't enough of a threat to Australia's crisis-ridden tertiary education system, an agreement currently under negotiation in the World Trade Organisation's Geneva headquarters could enforce the further
100 years of service ... to capitalism
When the likes of Kim Beazley, Paul Keating and Bob Hawke swell with
pride at something, you know it must really stink.
On May 8, Labor leaders, past and present, gathered in Melbourne to
BY LINDA WALDRON
MELBOURNE — Six hundred Bradmill workers seized the opportunity presented by the re-enactment of the first sitting of federal parliament in Victoria's Parliament House on May 10 to mobilise to save their jobs. They demanded to
BY JIM GREEN
Corporate polluters have enrolled powerful allies in their efforts
to prevent restrictions on the emissions of greenhouse gases politicians,
bureaucrats, public relations firms, corporate front groups, conservative
BY JABULANE MATSEBULA
The Swaziland government launched a vicious attack on the freedom of speech and the press on May 4, when it issued an order to shut down the Guardian of Swaziland and the Nation Magazine.
Police impounded copies of the
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