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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Museworthy: The Fragment Called Wisdom
There is a cracked stoneIt is wiseThere is a broken stickIt is wiseThere is water, forever formless always formedIt is wiseIt is unwiseto shake the whole from its sack of piecesThe head looks around at its
BY GRIFF FOLEY
The Western media portray Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe as the worst African dictator since Idi Amin. Mugabe is certainly tyrannical, but he is no freak or accident.
Mugabe's regime is a product of the politics of Zimbabwean
ALP trickle will become a flood
The response of rank-and-file unionists to Victorian Electrical Trades
Union leader Dean Mighell's resignation from the Labor Party was predictable:
Good on yer mate, it's about time! They don't want
BY CHRIS LATHAM
PERTH — The prospects for peace and a united Ireland had been enhanced by the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, Mitchell McLaughlin, national chairperson of the Irish republican party Sinn Fein, told a February 28 public meeting.
BY TIM GOODEN
GEELONG What could only be described as a David and Goliath battle
looks likely to end in a fall for giant energy corporation AES. On March
15, AES announced it was not proceeding with the construction of a gas-and-kerosene
BY EDWARD JOHNSTONE
MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance received 1608 votes in the six wards it contested in Moreland and Darebin council elections held in March.
In the city of Moreland, candidate for Merri ward Judy McVey received 374 votes,
BY SUE BOLTON
At a joint media conference on March 17, Electrical Trades Union Victorian secretary Dean Mighell and United Firefighters Union Victorian secretary Peter Marshall announced that they were quitting the Labor Party.
It is not
BY DICK NICHOLS
BARCELONA — The organisers said 500,000, the press said 350,000 and the police said 250,000. The organisers expected around 50,000 people to turn up at the protest; up to 8% of the population of Catalonia came. Not even the most
Racist cops
I finished brushing the paste on yet another Resistance "No War" poster, we rounded the corner and saw two police striding quickly, straight at us. "Cops" someone muttered as we all instinctively about faced and walked back round the