The Socialist Alliance joined the hundreds of thousands of Australians who rallied against the war on Iraq last year. Now we are building demonstrations against the US occupation as events in Iraq of the past two weeks have shown the world the brutal
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Chris White, Adelaide
On any one night, some 7500 South Australians are homeless.
One obvious reason for this crisis is a lack of housing, caused by the federal Coalition government's 60% capital grants cut to the South Australian Housing Trust.
Robyn Marshall, Caracas
Jorge Rodriguez, one of the five members of Venezuela's National Elections Council (CNE), announced on April 14 that the re-verification of signatures on the right-wing opposition's petition for a referendum to recall
Federal treasurer Peter Costello's superannuation plan is just what you would expect from a government that does nothing for workers, unless it first means a profit for the bosses.
Costello wants a flood of cut-price pensioners who "choose" to
Socialist Alliance members took to the streets in the northern working-class suburbs of Hobart on April 17 to promote Socialist Alliance legislative council candidate for the seat of Elwick, Kamala Emanuel. Eight cars displaying Socialist
Sarah Stephen
Mahmod Salem Yussef, an Iraqi refugee now living in Brisbane on a temporary protection visa, told the Brisbane Magistrates Court on April 6 that he saw armed Indonesian police on the beach at Cipanas in Indonesia and in small boats
Doug Lorimer
BBC television journalist Tara Sutton reported on February 4 that one of the first signs people see as they enter the Iraqi city of Fallujah in March reads: "Welcome to Fallujah — burial ground of the Americans."
The mass rebellion
Rohan Pearce
In the early days of the battle for Fallujah and the Shiite militia rebellion, almost every journalist in the corporate media would begin their reports with dire warnings about a country sliding towards civil war. In fact, the
SYDNEY — Canadian academic Leo Panitch discussed the making of global capitalism at a meeting of 25 people on April 14, organised by the Socialist Alliance. Panitch is co-editor of Socialist Register, a professor of political science at York
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"This is [US President George] Bush's 33rd visit to his ranch since becoming president. He has spent all or part of 233 days on his Texas ranch since taking office, according to a tally by CBS News. Adding his 78 visits to Camp David
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ACT Labor government bans appeals
CANBERRA - On April 16, the ACT ALP government responded to the Save the Ridge group's March 31 court victory by announcing not only an appeal, but also a change to land planning regulations so that objections
Alex Miller
The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) will initiate a campaign to abolish the local council tax wuith a mass demonstration in Glasgow on April 24, and with the presentation of bill in the Scottish Parliament by SSP MSP Tommy Sheridan.
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