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BY MARCE CAMERON BRISBANE — Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) activist Danny Dougherty was elected state secretary of the printing division of the union's Queensland branch on November 18. Dougherty comfortably won the postal
BY LISA MACDONALD A whirlwind speaking tour by Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) member of parliament Colin Fox left a trail of inspiration and optimism along the east coast of Australia last week. Fox, one of six SSP activists elected to the
BY MARCUS GREVILLE& JULIAN COPPENS LONDON — In a tremendous display of opposition to US President George Bush's and British Prime Minister Tony Blair's invasion and occupation of Iraq, a vast crowd — estimates vary between 200,000 and 300,000
BY JOHN PERCY Since Green Left Weekly first started being posted on the world-wide web in September 1995, we knew it was an opportunity to reach a whole new layer of readers. When, after a while, we were able to put all the back issues on the web
BY ALISON DELLIT This is the second week of our campaign to get more Friends of Green Left Weekly — people who will give a regular donation to the paper, to help us ensure that we can keep covering the news and providing analysis you won't find
BY SHANE BENTLEY SYDNEY — P&O Ports will cease stevedoring operations at White Bay on November 28. The company will then move its operations to Darling Harbour and share the facility with Patrick Stevedores. Lease costs paid to the NSW government
BY EVA CHENG South Korea's workers have launched a wave of industrial action in response to repressive labour laws which are aimed at helping local and foreign capitalists undermine workers' wages and conditions. Workers' resistance has been met
BY SUSAN AUSTIN PARIS — The second European Social Forum, held in Paris from November 12-15, attracted around 50,000 people, mainly from the countries of the Europe Union. The ESF is modeled on the World Social Forum (WSF), held for the last
BY DAVID SCRIMGEOUR The federal Liberal Party has realised that being too blatant about dismantling Medicare is electorally dangerous. After widespread negative reactions to its fraudulently named "Fairer Medicare" package, on November 18 the
Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The total market value of goods and services produced in the economy within a given period (usually a year) after deducting the costs of goods and services used up in the process of production. Balance on goods and
BY DAVID BACON SAN FRANCISCO — There is a free-trade agreement that gives an idea of what Latin America can expect from the US President George Bush's Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). In a few weeks, the North American Free Trade Agreement
BY MARGARITA WINDISCH MELBOURNE — One hundred and twenty socialists attended the Socialist Alliance's Victorian state conference, held on November 15 around the theme "Resisting the Empire". Renowned Marxist historian Humphrey McQueen opened