Analysis

  • More Zionist myths

    In a letter to Green Left Weekly, printed in issue #469, Yula Geredov continues to claim that I misrepresent the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by presenting a "one-sided, biased account" of the current situation.

  • Vote Socialist Alliance on November 10

    @box text intr = The November 10 federal election is unlikely to change much in Australian politics. The choice of an ALP or Coalition government offers no choice to stop the war against the Afghan people or to free the refugees or to reverse more

  • Labor won't guarantee job security

    Labor won't guarantee job security On November 1, unionists will gather across Australia to rally for job security. Such demonstrations are badly needed — the collapse of Ansett, Qantas' threatened job losses, Coles Myer's mass

  • Hell no, we shouldn't go

    @box text intr = The October 16 announcement that more than 1500 Australian military personnel will be actively involved in the war on Afghanistan should horrify all Australians. For years, both the major parties have defended increasing

  • Blair's siren call

    @box text intr = In a speech to the British Labour Party's annual conference on October 2, billed as the formal announcement of war with Afghanistan, Tony Blair outlined the sort of world the imperialist powers' claim they want to construct out of

  • How the CIA created Osama bin Laden

    Is this a call to jihad (holy war) taken from one of Islamic fundamentalist Osama bin Laden's notorious fatwas? Or perhaps a communique issued by the repressive Taliban regime in Kabul?

  • Solidarity, not patriotic xenophobia

    @box text intr = In the days following the September 11 attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon, millions of Australians were glued to their television sets, fixated by horror and aching empathy for the victims. The disaster could

  • The election Howard would have lost

    Pauline Hanson told a rally on the Sunshine Coast in February how One Nation would deal with asylum seekers coming to Australia by boat: "You go out and meet them, fill them with food and water and medical supplies and say 'Go that way'." In an

  • US backs apartheid Israel

    @box text intr = The United States government's threat to boycott the UN-organised World Conference Against Racism, being held in South Africa from August 31, raises the question why the self-proclaimed "land of the free" would want to avoid a

  • Mothers need more options

    The August 15 agreement between the Australian Catholic University (ACU) and its non-academic staff that provides one year of paid maternity leave, and three weeks of paid paternity leave, is a step forward for women. There are only two developed

  • Militants can't rely on Labor

    The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) has won a significant victory in the industrial dispute at the Sydney car parts manufacturer TriStar. The immediate issue was the safeguarding of workers' entitlements. In the face of an intense

  • The Big Lie

    @box text intr = Joseph Goebbels, the notorious Nazi propagandist (a job which today would be called "spin doctor"), came up with a theory in the 1930s called the Big Lie: the bigger the lie you tell people, the theory went, and the more you repeat