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The Cuban government has announced the capture of three Cuban-American terrorists from Miami, a small victory in its efforts to stop ongoing terrorist attacks against the revolutionary island country. State security official Manuel Hevia told a
BY MARY MERKENICH & NORRIAN RUNDLE Victorian teachers have been sold out again by their union, following its decision to abandon a campaign for increased schools funding in the state budget. The Australian Education Union had called a stopwork
BY MATTHEW EGAN & BRONWYN POWELL SYDNEY - More than 100 student activists from across Australia discussed the way forward for the anti-corporate movement at the June 29-30 Globalise This: Student Anti-Capitalist Conference. The conference began
BY STUART MARTIN WOLLONGONG — In stark contrast to the vague talk from officials in meetings elsewhere, the South Coast Labor Council's June 27 stopwork meeting on the campaign to save WorkCover debated a definite course of action — and was
By David Glanz, Aston by-election campaign manager "Scrap the GST — vote Socialist Alliance!" That's the message SA supporters have been taking to the streets of Aston for the past six weeks. The Aston federal by-election on July 14 is our
BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY To judge from opinion surveys, newspaper reports and simply from conversations on the street, Russian society is moving leftward. To judge from the statements of politicians and the relationship of forces within the elite,
Sex slavery is one of the ugliest and cruellest aspects of migrant trafficking, a trade which booms as the gap between rich and poor widens and the walls go up around rich countries. Trying to escape hardship for a new life, or to make money to
BY JESS RODGERS "Who did the killings? Who did the killings? Downer doesn't know — he hasn't even condemned them!", James Vassilopoulos, a representative of the Socialist Alliance told protesters in Canberra on June 29. The emergency protest
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS JAKARTA — "It's become much worse since the economic crisis. There are more homeless people, more street singers, and more street sellers", Onie told me, before turning back to his battered guitar and filling the tiny office of
BY SEAN HEALY Some of the world's largest corporations came under fire in the southern Californian city of San Diego on June 24, when 1600 environmentalists marched on the annual convention of the Biotechnology Industry Organisation, to protest
By Ian Rintoul & Dick Nichols, national convenors, Socialist Alliance The Socialist Alliance was formed last February by nine socialist organisations to meet the burning need for a real alternative in Australian politics: An alternative for all
BY SHANE BENTLEY NEWCASTLE — The state Labor government's determination to push ahead with the Workers' Compensation Amendment Bill has forced thousands of unionists in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley to reconsider their allegiance to the Labor