Boom years
"More than 60% of all US companies paid no federal tax at all during the boom years of 1996 to 2000, the [US Congress's] General Accounting Office reports." — MSN Money website.
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On August 27, former Victorian secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Craig Johnston was jailed for nine months for an industrial protest in defence of jobs. Despite 40-50 people being involved in the protest, only
Johnston was
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Palestine photos exhibited
BRISBANE — On November 8, 50 people attended a public display of photographs taken by Vivienne Porzsolt, a Sydney member of Jews Against the Occupation, during her three-week visit to Israel/Palestine last
Across the globe, media is debating why United States voters seem to have become more conservative. In this article abridged from the US Socialist Worker <http://www.socialistworker.org>, Lance Selfa comes to different conclusions.
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Sue Bull, Geelong
The Shell oil refinery in Geelong has once again been caught out polluting Corio Bay. On November 4, Shell failed to inform the Environmental Protection Agency that a spill had reached the bay and the company was initially very
Jorge Jorquera
An alliance of the left, principally made up of the Communist Party of Chile and the Humanist Party, the main Green party in Chile, managed 9.14% of the vote in the October 31 municipal elections. This is the highest left vote since
James Balowski, Jakarta
The new government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono faces a staggering array of problems — rampant corruption, continuing human rights abuses by the military, massive unemployment, crumbling infrastructure, and a
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La Trobe University evicts NTEU
MELBOURNE — La Trobe University has served an eviction notice on the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), demanding that it vacate its office on campus by December 31. Campus unionists believe this is
Rohan Pearce
Many liberal commentators have spent their time since the November 2 US presidential election bemoaning the "stupidity" of US people for "re"-electing President George Bush, instead of voting for John Kerry, the alternative pro-war
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane
Sam Watson, prominent Aboriginal activist and Socialist Alliance member, slammed as "racist clowns" the members of the Australian army who were revealed in the November 11 Courier Mail, standing behind Aboriginal soldiers in a
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