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BY ALISON DELLIT "In all that we do, we will honour our obligation to provide protection for those fleeing persecution. We must not allow such tragic loss of life to continue." With this blatant lie British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Italian
Various left forces and progressive activists in India are planning to launch a National Campaign Against Globalisation in New Delhi on March 21-23. An appeal for attendance at a conference, to be held over the three days to coincide the launch,
BY TRISHA REIMERS Big Kev is excited — and he should be, because he's discovered that, just like sex, nationalism sells (in his case, sells cleaning products). Big Kev is just another Aussie capitalist who's telling workers that they should
BY ZANNY BEGG SYDNEY — Fred Nile's prayers for rain may have been answered but his prayers to halt this year's Mardi Gras were not. Between 400,000 and 500,000 people lined Oxford Street to watch the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade.
BY KATELYN MOUNTFORD Universities are back in full swing here in Queensland, and what better way to kick off a new semester than with a blatant and petulant attack on female students? Student paper Gravity, the publication of the Griffith
BY LISA MACDONALD SYDNEY — In what will be the broadest left conference held in this city for many years, activists from the growing anti-corporate movement and a wide range of local campaigns will gather at the University of Technology's Markets
BY SEAN WALSH MELBOURNE — The Port Phillip Action Group got more than they bargained for on February 25, when its "Resident Street Walk Against Street Prostitution and Drugs" through the streets of seaside St Kilda was met with 50
Socialist Alliance and the PLP — 1 Your reporting on the Socialist Alliance and position of leading members of the PLP in Sydney and Canberra was ambiguous and created a false impression. In Canberra there is, so far, no Socialist Alliance and
BY JOHN NEBAUER ADELAIDE — Five hundred construction workers marched on the offices of state workplace relations minister Robert Lawson here on March 8, angry that five of their colleagues have been killed on Adelaide building sites already this
BY TONY ILTIS MELBOURNE — Two hundred and fifty people packed Trades Hall on March 8 to discuss the struggle of the Latrobe Valley power workers against attempts by Yallourn Energy and other privatised electricity corporations to slash jobs,

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