Lyndon LaRouche: Fascism Restyled for the New MillenniumBy Helen GilbertRed Letter Press, 46 pagesCopies available for $7 from the Solidarity Salon, 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick, Victoria; send a cheque for $8, payable to the Feminist Education
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300 rally for Medicare
MELBOURNE — On November 7, a lunchtime rally protested the cuts to Medicare and called for the public health care system to be extended.
The speakers included Dr Tim Woodruff; Sharan Burrow, the president of the
David Spratt, an organiser for the Victorian Peace Network, wrote to the Sydney Morning Herald's Webdiary, run by Margo Kingston, on October 21. Describing opposition leader Simon Crean as "dead in the water", he explained that he had resigned from
BY JAMES CRAFTI
MELBOURNE — The Victorian education department has threatened to sack several hundred staff.
Education workers have been threatened by the department with the loss of up to 400 jobs since August. The threat spilled over into the
BY DOUG LORIMER
The November 2 missile attack on a US Army Chinook troop transport helicopter — which left 16 GIs dead and 20 badly wounded — has finally forced leading officials in Washington to acknowledge that the US is involved in a
BY JO WILLIAMS
Australian women are having less children than ever before. Not only are more women childless, the one-child family is the fastest growing family type in Australia.
While much of the resulting talk of a "fertility crisis" is based
The federal Coalition government is clearly using the hysteria around the deportation of Willie Brigitte for alleged "terrorist" activities and the arrival of a small boatload of asylum seekers at Melville Island to prepare the most favourable terms
BY KARIN WARINGO
BRUSSELS — Soon, the 450 million citizens of the European Union will have their facial images screened and fingerprints taken if they request a new passport. Additionally, anybody from a non-EU state seeking entry or requesting
BY RAISA PAGES
Some call it an embargo, for others it's a blockade. But neither word correctly reflects the magnitude of the actions carried out by the US government against Cuba since 1959.
US Secretary of State Cristian Herter used the correct
BY JUERGEN MULZER
DARWIN — It has long been known that Darwin's Longgrass community is home to some fantastic musical talent, so it is not surprising that the launch of the first Longgrass Live CD at the third annual Freedom to Sleep Festivities
Anti-war movement and union action
In GLW #560, Bryan Sketchley argues that the massive worldwide anti-war protests went unheeded by US imperialism and that the anti-war movement needs to be reoriented away from mass street protests towards
BY NORM DIXON
Noam Chomsky, the distinguished US political scientist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, has attended the 25th Assembly of the Latin American Social Science Council. Addressing the conference on October 29, also
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