BY SUE JOHNSON
[The following is the text of a talk given at a session on the Socialist
Alliance at the International Socialist Organisation's Marxism 2002 conference
held in Melbourne, September 6-8. Sue Johnson spoke on behalf of the
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BY MARG PERROTT
WOLLONGONG The Illawarra Socialist Alliance met on September 8 and unanimously endorsed Chris "Will" Williams as its candidate in the October 19 federal by-election for the NSW seat of Cunningham.
Williams is a 24-year-old
BY KATELYN MOUNTFORD
In the last 25 years, capitalism's neo-liberal offensive has extended like a gag around the women of the world. It has stripped and privatised public services, pushing the duty of care back onto the family unit and, by
BY EMMA MURPHY
On September 6, a report was released from a coronial inquest held in May and June into three petrol-sniffing related deaths between 1999-2001 in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands. The coroner found that, in all three cases, "the
BY RACHEL COHEN
Drug research and development (R&D) for diseases that disproportionately affect poor people in developing countries is at a virtual standstill.
According to a study by Patrice Trouiller and colleagues, soon to be published in the
BY IGGY KIM
On September 11, the Indonesian army in Aceh announced that it had
taken into custody two foreigners Lesley McCulloch, an Australian academic
of British citizenship, and Joy-Lee Sadler, a US nurse and their Acehnese
Respectful, like a subordinate should be
"The United States helped found the United Nations. We want the United Nations to be effective, and respectful, and successful." George "The Crusader" Bush, addressing the UN General Assembly,
BY TIM STEWART
BRISBANE Three hundred people attended a September 14 forum organised
by Australians for a Just Peace around the slogan our grief is not a cry
for war.
The forum was chaired by ABC radio presenter Sandy McCutcheon,
BY SARAH STEPHEN
For two years, Kevin John Enniss was a paid informant of the Australian Federal Police (AFP). He was also at the heart of the people-smuggling business in Indonesia.
Enniss went far beyond the normal role of an informant. At the
BY IGGY KIM & NICK EVERETT
An "informal" meeting of 25 trade ministers will be hosted by the World Trade Organisation in Sydney on November 14-15.
The meeting will be a caucus, involving the advanced capitalist countries plus a handful of the
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BY PHIL CHILTON
PERTH On September 9, about 60 people staged a vigil outside the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs in Perth. The vigil was for Steven Khan.
Khan is one of the asylum seekers locked in
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