BY SARAH STEPHEN
Imagine this: it's 2005, and a fundamentalist Christian regime has come to power in New Zealand. In its effort to consolidate power, it is undertaking a campaign of systematic persecution of all those who have organised against it
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BY MARGARET ALLUM
Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair is smug in the knowledge that his government is almost certain of victory in the June 7 British general election. Blair knows that the continuing political impotence of the Tory opposition will
BY ROHAN PEARCE
"CHOGM and the Commonwealth Business Council are the next stops for the anti-corporate movement and we're going take to the streets with a clear message — global justice not global misery", Angela Luvera, Sydney Resistance central
In the Blue HouseBy Meaghan DelahuntBloomsbury, 2001$35 (hb)
REVIEW BY KEVIN WILLIAMSON
There are few historical figures on the left who provoke such controversy, inspiration and opposition as that of the Russian revolutionary leader, Leon
BY ADAM MACLEAN
With an eye on countering a rural backlash, the federal Liberal-National
government has announced significant telecommunication policy backflips
in the May 22 budget.
As well as committing itself to not sell off the
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
SYDNEY â When the 165 employees of Metroshelf in Revesby turned
up for work on June 28 they found security guards standing in front of
the locked gates.
Management told 50 of them that they had been sacked for
BY GILBERT HOLMES
BRISBANE — A determined band of activists are preparing a blockade in an effort to save Brisbane's last piece of inner-city bushland. The two hectares of bushland, known as "The Gully", have received council approval for a
BY SEAN HEALY
A majority of people put more trust in the groups who protest outside the summits of major international institutions to operate in the best interests of society than in the representatives of governments and corporations inside the
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS & CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE Growing up in this area, I understand that working families
are doing it tough. Too many people are worried about losing their jobs
or about getting by with casual work, said Josephine
@box text intr = A global campaign to overturn a US patent on basmati rice has scored a further and near-fatal victory with the announcement that the US Patent and Trademark Office has thrown out 13 of 16 remaining claims from US-based RiceTec's
The people's rollback versus Labor's
In the five years since John Howard was elected prime minister, his
government has carried through a breathtaking range of attacks on the working
class. Key among these were the sale of Telstra, the
The Scottish Socialist Party office in Glasgow has been inundated with
requests from teachers for campaign packs for school pupils holding mock
elections.
One teacher phoning from a school in the Gorbals told the party that
she has been
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