Unity
All the socialist parties believe in the unity of the working class, but it is essential for this concept to be realised.
The ruling class and their well-paid servile ideological defenders will be laughing all the way to the bank if we
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On April 25-26, the national committee of the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) decided to support the initiative by the Non-Aligned Caucus in the Socialist Alliance to move forward the process of left regroupment. The open letter
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ADELAIDE — Mrs Eileen Brown and Mrs Eileen Wingfield were announced as winners of the prestigious Goldman Prize for the Environment on April 15 for their role in fighting the federal government's plan for a national radioactive waste
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The Coalition government argues that it is impossible to provide a world-class health care system that is free to all citizens at the point of delivery. Yet that's exactly what a Third World country in the Caribbean has been able
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There is growing hostility among ordinary Iraqis at Washington's attempts to impose a puppet government on the country. While there is little nostalgia for the brutal rule of Saddam Hussein, there seems to be determination not to
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The nightmare of US health care — where medical bills are the highest cause of bankruptcy and 42 million people have no access to care — may be around the corner for Australia, as the Coalition government prepares to use the
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As the catalogues advertising cheap slippers, saucepans and vacuum cleaners drop into our letterboxes, it might be worth remembering that the woman widely credited with initiating Mother's Day, Julia Ward Howe, would be horrified by the marketing
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The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) will lose control of its funding powers under a new government plan. Following its implementation on July 1, all funding decisions concerning programs delivered by ATSIC
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On May 2, I was startled to read an article in the Melbourne Age quoting "opposition leader Kim Beazley" talking about federal housing. After a brief check, I confirmed that there had been no sudden change in the federal Labor
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RAMALLAH — Before the US-led invasion of Iraq, the US and British governments made it clear that they were planning for an immediate resumption of Palestinian-Israeli negotiations and a rapid implementation of the US "road map" to
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CANBERRA — Members of Australia's largest union, the Community and Public Sector Union, have begun voting for national office bearers to lead the CPSU for the next two and a half years. The broad left coalition Members First,
News
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Making the issues move forward "The idea is that you want to have a legitimate Iraqi interim authority in place because it makes the issues move forward more quickly, including the pumping of oil." — US State Department official, quoted in April
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MELBOURNE — This year's May Day rally, held on May 1 for the third year running rather than on the following weekend, had the theme "For a people's budget, not a war budget". The rally, which was organised by the Victorian Trades
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Sydney: M1 targets Halliburton SYDNEY — Chanting "Halliburton OUT! Troops OUT! US imperialism OUT! OUT! OUT!", 150 people held a spirited May Day march to the office of Halliburton after a rally in Martin Place on May 1. Halliburton was the
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Qld electricians win 25% pay rise BRISBANE — After months of negotiations and substantial industrial action, on April 29 contract electricians won a 25% pay rise as part of a new industry standard in south-east Queensland. More than 30
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On May 3 and 4, marches were held in several Australian cities to mark May Day, a traditional day of workers' struggle. In Sydney, around 2000 people rallied in Hyde Park on March 4 before marching, behind several trucks decorated with union
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PERTH — The WA branch of the mining division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union picketed the opening of Rio Tinto's annual general meeting on May 1. The unionists were protesting the company's attacks on workers
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MELBOURNE — Iraqi and Afghan refugees who now face the threat of forcible return to their "liberated" home countries addressed a forum held on April 29 at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, organised by the RMIT Refugee
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HOBART — After a two-year struggle, the Australian Nurses Federation (ANF) has successfully forced the Tasmanian state government to pay a postgraduate allowance to all qualified nurses. On May 1, the Federal Court ordered
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GEELONG — Six cleaning staff employed at the Gordon Institute, the largest provider of technical and further education in the Geelong region, have lost their jobs after a change of contractor. Waynes Cleaning Systems, a
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MELBOURNE — Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) state secretary Martin Kingham was acquitted of breaching the Royal Commission Act at the Melbourne Magistrates Court on May 2, following a three-day court
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NEWCASTLE — Aid worker and freelance journalist Donna Mulhearn spoke at a public forum at Club Nova on April 23, detailing her experiences as a "human shield" in Iraq. Mulhearn told the 70 people present that they were right
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MELBOURNE — A May 1 forum organised by the Socialist Alliance hosted a lively debate about whether the budget should be blocked, after Greens speaker Pamela Curr explained her party's opposition. The forum, attended by 60 people,
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GEELONG — On April 28 at 6am, one hour before the end of the 12-hour night shift, security guards removed and locked out 110 workers from Geelong Wool Combing's Corio factory. The company's justification was that during enterprise bargaining negotiations with the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia, the union had refused to accept 25% pay cuts over 12 months.
Analysis
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Every day last week, the newspapers carried full-page lists of medicines and dietary supplements recalled by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), after it suspended the manufacturing licence of Pan Pharmaceuticals for six months on April 28.
World
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The US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq has brought to surface the conflict that has been immanent between the US capitalist rulers and their French and German rivals since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold
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On May 1, 160 foreign intellectuals and artists — including Nobel Prize winners Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rigoberta Menchu, Aldolfo Perez Esquivel and Nadine Gordimer — launched an international declaration in defence of Cuba.
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PHNOM PENH — Hundreds of workers jammed into the premises of the Womyn's Agenda for Change on May 1 to celebrate May Day. The day's events were organised primarily by garment workers, who produce for subcontractors who supply
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KUALA LUMPUR — Around 1000 people, including plantation and factory workers, farmers, urban settlers and students, attended a lunch-time rally on May 1 in the Dataran Merdeka (Independence Square) to commemorate May Day. Organised
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Pat Finucane, a high-profile Catholic solicitor who acted for republican paramilitary suspects, was shot dead by the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association in front of his family in 1989. After 14 years, three inquiries,
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DARWIN — East Timor's parliament is discussing a new law that would allow the interior ministry to deport any foreigner who engages in political activity or even attends a political meeting or demonstration. The proposed law was
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JAKARTA — About 10,000 people marched on May 1 in a colourful display of opposition to the anti-worker policies of the Indonesian government. Organised by the May Day Action Committee, the demonstration drew together contingents
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GLASGOW — Socialism has taken a giant leap forward in Scotland. In a wonderful May Day election success, the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) will send six members into the Scottish parliament. The leader of the SSP, Tommy
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BY RUPEN SAVOULIAN& DOUG LORIMER While the world's attention is focused on Iraq, the US-led war in Afghanistan is still raging. US and British elite troops are battling Afghan guerrillas, making a mockery of Washington's claim that its military
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Following a meeting of the Indonesian cabinet security committee on April 28, security minister Susilo Bambang Yudotomo announced that Jakarta may consider resuming "security operations" and abandon peace negotiations in Aceh.
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With the destruction of the Baath Party regime, two significant political poles have emerged within Iraq — US-imposed administration headed by retired US general Jay Garner and the anti-US occupation Shiite clergy. It is the
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APTOS, California Despite staunch backing from fundamental religious groups, the Bush administration continues to face opposition over the war in Iraq from mainstream religious leaders. Many wonder how religious groups that claim
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The United States has created a real mess for itself in Korea. Washington's strategy of incessantly stirring up confrontation would be less risky if it wasn't also accompanied by a doctrine of permanent, global, pre-emptive war: For the
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"There is a driving force behind this revolution and nobody or nothing can stop it", declared Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on April 13 at the closing rally of the four-day World Encounter of Solidarity with the Bolivarian
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FASLANE NAVY BASE — More than 600 people attended "The Really Big Blockade" anti-nuclear protest at the British navy's Faslane base, 30 kilometres from Glasgow, on April 22. Many protesters locked themselves to the gates. As people were slowly
Culture
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In Iraqthe Yanks are back.Democracy,I suppose,is what they're goingto impose. Democracy,dictatorship,do not let your sweet lips slip. They now tell us thatOperation Enduring Freedomwas a success.Well I'd hate to see a failure.Though in one
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In the midst of parched desertno-one can come with usWe cannot journey hand in handThere is no green place to rest the eyeand the scorching wind of destiny lashes at our backsA call to DIMIA is like the smell of rain in the desertHope, like black
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Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell YouBy Norman Soloman and Reese ErlichContext Books, 2003188 pages, $31 (pb)"Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip", wrote George Orwell of journalists under dictatorships,
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SAN FRANCISCO — "We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace", this best sums up my opinion on militarism. The line came to mind at an organising meeting for a mass concert and rally we put on in San