@box text intr = In the days following the September 11 attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon, millions of Australians were glued to their television sets, fixated by horror and aching empathy for the victims.
The disaster could
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Refugees solidarity tour
ADELAIDE — Local supporters of the campaign for justice for asylum seekers will join the Free the Refugees Solidarity Tour to the Woomera Immigration Detention Centre on September 21. So far more than 100 have
Market law
"[W]hat we are now seeing shows what can happen when commercial imperatives rule: a law of the jungle in which consumers gain lower prices during the battle, but the strongest player emerges dominant." — Melbourne Age economics editor
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — Students and staff from the Bankstown, Campbelltown and Penrith campuses of the University of Western Sydney rallied outside the vice-chancellor's offices at UWS Penrith on September 11. The action was dubbed UWS11.
The
BY ALISON DELLIT
The thing about capitalist competition is that it tends to negate itself. Back in the 1980s, when the Hawke Labor government began de-regulating commercial aviation, we were promised great benefits from increased competition. When
BY ALANA KERR
SYDNEY — In the last two weeks, four branches of the Socialist Alliance in metropolitan Sydney have pre-selected their lower house candidates for the upcoming federal election. These candidates, in the seats of Kingsford Smith,
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — ALP member Ted Alexander won the 2001 Tasmania University Union presidential election by a landslide, capturing 59% of the vote. Promising to provide more free beer and improved services Alexander defeated Greens
BY AHMAD NIMER
RAMALLAH — If those responsible for the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, DC, believed they were acting on behalf of the victims of US imperialism, the events of the last few days in the occupied Palestinian territories
BY JONATHAN GADIR
Cracks are emerging in Israel's social consensus about conflict with the Palestinians, as 62 high school students publicly declared their intention to refuse military service.
The declaration came in an open letter to Israel's
BY SEAN HEALY
If you've seen the movie, you'll know that, once it had hit the iceberg, the Titanic took a long time to sink. That might be just what we're seeing happen to the World Trade Organisation.
Almost two full years after its plans to
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