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'Everybody should be in a revolutionary party'

BY ALISON DELLIT Following her participation in the September 26 protests in Prague against the meetings of International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Felicity Martin decided upon her return to Australia she would join the Democratic Socialist

Westies demand to be heard

Unearth ThisOb(zine) Blue Mountains/western Sydney music compilationAvailable from PO Box 300, Blaxland NSW 2774 or <http://fly.to/obzine> BY BARRY HEALY This collection of 17 tracks by different bands from the western Sydney/Blue

Illawarra TAFE staff draw the line

BY CHRISTOPHER PERKINS WOLLONGONG — Teachers and library staff at TAFE's Illawarra Institute of Technology are taking action against attacks which have flowed from repeated budget cuts by the NSW Labor government. TAFE library staff, members of

Torres Strait Islanders win fishing rights

BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — Traditional dances were performed outside Cairns District Court on January 31 to celebrate the acquittal of two Torres Strait Islanders charged with robbing a group of commercial fishers. Benjamin Ali Nona and George

IRAQ: John Pilger — The great cover-up

BY JOHN PILGER On the eve of an election campaign, the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair is attempting, with mounting desperation, to suppress a scandal potentially greater than the arms-to-Iraq cover-up. This is the deaths of

CUBA: 'We will conquer injustice'

BY JONATHAN STRAUSS PORTO ALEGRE — Cuban National Assembly president Ricardo Alarcon reaffirmed the internationalist and socialist perspective of the Cuban Revolution in a speech from the chair of a thematic panel at the World Social Forum

Refugees: 'Human rights cannot be sedated'

BY ANDY GIANNIOTIS SYDNEY — With the demise of the Refugee Action Collective, members of the International Federation of Iraqi and Iranian Refugees (IFIR), the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) and independent anti-racist activists have

No 'business as usual' at ASX

BY KAREN FLETCHER BRISBANE — The Brisbane M1 Alliance has pledged to build a peaceful mass blockade of the Brisbane office of the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) on May 1 and bring the business of neo-liberal globalisation to a standstill for a

UNITED STATES: Bush and Big Oil threaten world environment

BY NORM DIXON An international gathering of scientists in Shanghai mid-January presented a report revealing that global warming caused by the emission of greenhouse gases could result in the atmosphere's temperature rising by almost 6°C by

INDONESIA: Right moves against Wahid

BY MAX LANE In an escalation of tensions between President Abdurrahman Wahid and right-wing forces in the country's parliament, a full session of the DPR, the Indonesian house of representatives, voted almost unanimously on February 2 to accept a

Howard's education funding swindle

BY VIV MILEY John Howard upped the election stakes on January 29 when he unveiled his $2.9 billion innovation action plan, Backing Australia's Ability. The plan was applauded by business circles, university administrators and research bodies, but

EAST TIMOR: Foreign policy heads west

BY JON LAND Imagine someone referring to prime minister John Howard and his foreign minister, Alexander Downer, as "more generous than Mother Theresa". You wouldn't be surprised if it came from a Coalition backbencher — but these are the precise