[The following is an excerpt from a statement issued by the Socialist
Alliance in Melbourne on March 20.]
Dean Mighell is 100% correct to say that the ALP has turned its back
on the working class.
One of the first acts of the Bracks
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and ain't i a woman: US army harasses lesbians
Last year, women were twice as likely to be dismissed from the US army for being lesbians than men were for being gay, according to a report released on March 15 by the Servicemembers Legal
BY NICK SOUDAKOFF
The US government has requested an additional 300 troops be allowed to perform "civic duties" on the Philippines island of Basilian as part of the Balikatan 02-1 war games nominally aimed at destroying the Abu Sayyaf kidnap group.
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA I used to be an activist, where I was very flexible and
could criticise everything, but now I'm representing East Timor, East
Timor's deputy minster for foreign affairs and cooperation Fernando de
BY FAROOQ TARIQ
LAHORE — The national committee of the Labour Party Pakistan, meeting March 16-17, decided that the party should help form a united socialist electoral alliance in Pakistan.
Left-wing political parties, trade unions and social
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The United Nations-sponsored International Conference on Financing for Development — held in Monterrey, Mexico, on March 18-22 — produced a great deal of hot air, but little for the world's 1.2 billion people who live on less
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — "We want the people detained in the Villawood refugee prison, as well as the Australian public, to know that there are many people in this country, and around the world, who strongly oppose the Australian government's
BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD
Could it be that the very long prison sentences handed down to the five Cubans falsely accused of espionage were aimed at protecting Miami terrorist circles and dissuading any person or group who wants to counteract those
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — At its March 19 meeting the central Melbourne Refugee Action Collective (RAC-Vic) endorsed the idea of a national day of action for refugee rights for Sunday June 2.
While not discussing details of the action, RAC
Three million demonstrators marched through Rome on March 23 to protest new labour laws which will make it easier for employers to sack workers. The protest, the biggest ever held in Italy, was organised by the CGIL trade union federation.From Green
BY ALISON DELLIT
In
the biggest show of solidarity with asylum seekers yet seen in Australia,
more than 45,000 people attended Palm Sunday marches around the country
on March 24, calling for freedom and justice for refugees.
More than
BY A. SATTAR
"The rise of fundamentalism in Pakistan is a vote of no-confidence of the working people in capitalist and feudal parties. It is the failure of these parties in power, which has given rise to religious fanaticism", argues Farooq Tariq,
BY JACKIE LYNCH
MELBOURNE Electrical Trades Union state secretary Dean Mighell
received enthusiastic applause for his decision to leave the ALP at a mass
meeting of some 800 ETU members on March 20.
In a passionate and fiery speech,
A Pacific islands network which monitors globalisation in the Pacific
is calling on Pacific island leaders to think before they ratify trade
agreements and those who have ratified to withdraw from them.
Pacific Network for Globalisation
BY LAUREN CARROLL-HARRIS
If you believed everything that you read in the corporate media
then you would think that all young people are apathetic and that Australian
youth are the most apathetic in the world. This is what two recent
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE — "If you want to replace the World Bank, World Trade Organisation and International Monetary Fund, you need to create massive movements that are powerful, conscious and raise the social costs for the ruling class",
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