BY NORM DIXON
SYDNEY - The federal minister for trade, Mark Vaile, announced late on October 30 that the November 14-15 World Trade Organisation (WTO) informal meeting of trade ministers will be held at a new venue, the Novotel Hotel within the
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BY JANET BURSTALL
While Workers Liberty welcomes the Democratic Socialist Party's intentions to put far more of its resources into the Socialist Alliance (SA), we believe that there other measures that the alliance itself needs to take, to become a
BY JAMES CRAFTI
MELBOURNE Are all Aussies heartless bastards? This was the question
that was thrashed out at the third annual Green Left Weekly comedy
debate. Almost 200 people crowded into the Brunswick Town Hall on October
25 to find
BY SUSAN PRICE& LIAM MITCHELL
SYDNEY On November 2, members of the Labor Party attempted to have the Leichhardt Council close down a Socialist Alliance anti-war stall outside Norton Plaza.
The Socialist Alliance (SA) has held a stall
Illawarra anti-war rally
WOLLONGONG On November 2, 350 people attended a rally and march to stop the war on Iraq. Speakers included South Coast Labour Council secretary Arthur Rorris, Amy Parish from NoWar, Doreen Burrow from the
BY IGGY KIM
On October 24, a debate was held in Britain's House of Commons over the Foreign Office's handling of the detention of Lesley McCulloch in Indonesia. The debate was initiated by Alan Reid, the Scottish Liberal Democrats member for Argyll
BY ALISON DELLIT
Despite a Newspoll
indicating that public opposition to a war on Iraq has not been dented
by the Bali bombings, Prime Minister John Howard has strengthened indications
that Australians will be part of any US-led war on
In the largest
protest march in El Salvador's history, at least 200,000 Salvadorans, or
4% of the nation's population, completely shut down the country's capital,
San Salvador, on October 24 as they took to the streets in the second white
BY
PHIL SANDFORD
I would like to comment briefly on some of the issues in the important
and welcome discussion which the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) has opened
up around left unity.
The term united front is being used in a very
BY EVA CHENG
Created in 1989 to help break Third World resistance to the Uruguay Round of trade talks, the 21-country Asia Pacific Economic and Cooperation (APEC) forum plunged into near irrelevance in 1997 when the economic crisis hit Asia.
But
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