Analysis

  • Not good enough

    Not good enough The ALP's persistent refusal to repeal the GST when it next forms federal government is not good enough. There is already abundant evidence that the GST, even accompanied by income tax cuts, will make most people worse off. For

  • War drums in the Pacific

    War drums in the Pacific Coming hard on the heels of George Speight's terrorist coup in Fiji, the Australian capitalist media's battalion of “analysts” were quick to pronounce the Malaita Eagle Force's (MEF) June 5 seizure of Solomon

  • Support the right to organise

    Support the right to organise On May 29, the Federal Court fined two union officials $20,000 each for refusing to apologise to the court after being found guilty of contempt. The court had earlier found Dean Mighell and Craig Johnston, both

  • Reconciliation requires justice

    Reconciliation requires justice On May 27, in the Sydney Opera House forecourt not far from where the attempted genocide of Australia's indigenous people began, the spokespeople for the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation will hand their

  • The budget and 'democracy'

    The budget and 'democracy' Every year, at 7.30 pm on the second Tuesday of May, the federal treasurer gives a half-hour speech in which he (there has never been a woman treasurer) "hands down" the national budget. In the following hours and days,

  • The 'new' relationship with Indonesia

    The 'new' relationship In the wake of Labor leader Kim Beazley's meeting last week in Jakarta with Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid and PM John Howard's response to Wahid's announcement on April 27 that he was postponing his May visit to

  • Resisting corporate tyranny

    The disruption of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Seattle for three days last November by thousands of people, and the follow-up protest actions in Washington in mid-April showed the increasing anger about the blatant inequality and

  • Australia should cancel all Third World debt

    On April 21, the federal treasurer Peter Costello announced the cancellation of the bilateral debt owed by Nicaragua and Ethiopia to Australia as part of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) program to reduce the debt of heavily indebted poor

  • Olympics protests planned

    SYDNEY — Resistance believes that the level of community anger about the Olympics Games here lays the basis for large protest actions, and has pledged to mobilise high school and university students for protests during and leading up to the

  • What's wrong with the WTO, IMF and World Bank?

    Capitalist economists, media magnates, business people and politicians tell us that we are moving towards a "globalised" world economy in which capital and investment can move around freely and the Third World can compete in a "free" international

  • Zimbabwe crisis exposes refugee hypocrisy

    Zimbabwe crisis exposes refugee hypocrisy Australian politicians are falling over themselves to offer refugee status to wealthy, white plantation owners displaced from their properties in Zimbabwe by supporters of President Robert Mugabe. On

  • Howard and Burke's dirty deal

    Howard and Burke's dirty deal While the compromise on mandatory sentencing struck between Prime Minister John Howard and Northern Territory chief minister Denis Burke may have been sufficient to quell disquiet from the Liberal