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ALP trickle will become a flood

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

PAKISTAN: Labour Party calls for Socialist Alliance

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

Youth campaign to free the refugees

BY KATE WILSON Refugees, often fleeing war, poverty or government repression, risk their lives getting to Australia. They are then locked up in detention centres for months, sometimes years, in totally inhumane conditions. Australia

BARCELONA: 500,000 demand global justice

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

Socialist Alliance consolidates vote

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,

UNITED STATES: Terrorists flaunt themselves in Miami with impunity

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

ENGLAND: Socialist Alliance holds trade union conference

Bob Crow, newly elected general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, RMT"> ENGLAND: Socialist Alliance holds trade union conference LONDON — The first trade union conference organised by the Socialist

Loose cannons

We also decide who's a 'democratic nation' "With respect to democratic nations that are friends of ours, we only go where we are invited." — US Secretary of State Colin Powell, March 21. Too bad for everyone who's not "Not only will we win

Write on: Letters to the editor

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

Thousands protest for refugees

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

TCFUA workers do it with Flair

BY LINDA WALDRON& NATALIE ZIRNGAST MELBOURNE — Workers at Flair Menswear Preston, manufacturers of Hugo Boss fashions, held a victory barbecue on the morning of March 18, after a two-week picket. A planned solidarity sausage sizzle at the

Legally murdered 'in the interests of discipline'

Blindfold and Alone: British Military Executions in the Great WarBy Cathryn Corns &John Hughes-WilsonCassell & Co, 2001543 pages, $59.95 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON "I think an example is necessary in the interests of discipline", wrote