BY TERESA FOARD
As a result of the May 13 elections, Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing La Casa delle Liberta ("House of Freedom") coalition will hold 177 seats in the 315-member upper house and 368 seats in the 630-member lower house of Italy's
450
BY DICK NICHOLS
Since it called off its truce in late 1999, the Basque armed independence organisation ETA (Basque Homeland and Freedom) has carried out a spate of bombings and assassinations across Spain. These have aroused such disgust among
BY SEAN WALSH
George Pell, the newly appointed Catholic archbishop of Sydney, is once again under attack from angry community groups, in particular those at the sharp end of Pell's bigoted, anti-gay and anti-lesbian stick.
Sydney gay and lesbian
BY SEAN HEALY
Fearful of being embarrassed by large anti-corporate protests at the October Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane, Queensland Labor Premier Peter Beattie is preparing a concerted effort to either intimidate or co-opt
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA The Socialist Alliance was the best thing to happen on
the left in Australia since the formation of the Communist Party following
the 1917 Russian Revolution a bold claim from the National Tertiary Education
BY VIV MILEY
"The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants", George 'Dubya' Bush, January 14, 2001.
Bush and his administration definitely know
BY MARIA VOUKELATOS
SYDNEY Coming hard on the heels of launches of local Socialist
Alliance groups across the city, 25 students at Sydney University gathered
on May 23 to launch the alliance on their campus.
Student activist Dom Rowe,
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Seventy of ship-builder Incat's 900 workers finished work on May 25 after accepting voluntary redundancies. The company extended an earlier deadline for workers to apply for redundancies but threatened forced sackings
Just weeks after another uprising at the Port Hedland refugee detention centre, federal immigration minister Philip Ruddock introduced the immigration detainees bill into federal parliament, which proposes to allow guards to conduct strip searches of
BY SEAN HEALY
One of the corporations which had a direct part in drawing up George W Bush's new energy policy was Houston-based corporate giant Enron, a US$100 billion empire which trades energy in every corner of the world.
Enron and its chief
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