BY GRIFF FOLEY
The Western media portray Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe as the worst African dictator since Idi Amin. Mugabe is certainly tyrannical, but he is no freak or accident.
Mugabe's regime is a product of the politics of Zimbabwean
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BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE — "If you want to replace the World Bank, World Trade Organisation and International Monetary Fund, you need to create massive movements that are powerful, conscious and raise the social costs for the ruling class",
and ain't i a woman: US army harasses lesbians
Last year, women were twice as likely to be dismissed from the US army for being lesbians than men were for being gay, according to a report released on March 15 by the Servicemembers Legal
Eighty people attended at refugee-rights protest in Leichhardt on March 21 organised by Free the Refugees campaign.
Photo by Jonathan Strauss.
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BY TIM GOODEN
GEELONG What could only be described as a David and Goliath battle
looks likely to end in a fall for giant energy corporation AES. On March
15, AES announced it was not proceeding with the construction of a gas-and-kerosene
ALP trickle will become a flood
The response of rank-and-file unionists to Victorian Electrical Trades
Union leader Dean Mighell's resignation from the Labor Party was predictable:
Good on yer mate, it's about time! They don't want
BY FAROOQ TARIQ
LAHORE — The national committee of the Labour Party Pakistan, meeting March 16-17, decided that the party should help form a united socialist electoral alliance in Pakistan.
Left-wing political parties, trade unions and social
BY KATE WILSON
Refugees, often fleeing war, poverty or government repression, risk
their lives getting to Australia. They are then locked up in detention
centres for months, sometimes years, in totally inhumane conditions. Australia
BY DICK NICHOLS
BARCELONA — The organisers said 500,000, the press said 350,000 and the police said 250,000. The organisers expected around 50,000 people to turn up at the protest; up to 8% of the population of Catalonia came. Not even the most
BY EDWARD JOHNSTONE
MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance received 1608 votes in the six wards it contested in Moreland and Darebin council elections held in March.
In the city of Moreland, candidate for Merri ward Judy McVey received 374 votes,
BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD
Could it be that the very long prison sentences handed down to the five Cubans falsely accused of espionage were aimed at protecting Miami terrorist circles and dissuading any person or group who wants to counteract those
Bob Crow, newly elected general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, RMT">
ENGLAND: Socialist Alliance holds trade union conference
LONDON — The first trade union conference organised by the Socialist
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