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THAILAND: Thousands protest at AIDS conference

Minnie Bruce Pratt, New York Chanting "Bush lies, millions die", protesters at the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok on July 14 shouted down Randall Tobias, the US global AIDS coordinator and the former CEO of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly

Carmen Lawrence: End 'time torture' of refugees

The following are abridged speeches to a June 22 Refugee Action Committee forum in Canberra, given by Kerrie Tucker, Greens Senate candidate in the ACT; Carmen Lawrence, ALP president and MP for Fremantle; and James Vassilopoulos, Socialist Alliance

UNITED STATES: Kerry v Bush: Is this really a choice?

Elizabeth Schulte, Chicago Call him the "me too" candidate. Republican President George Bush is for a stronger military. Democratic Party challenger John Kerry says "me too". Bush shredded civil liberties with the USAPATRIOT Act. Kerry says "me

SHOCKFACTS: Violence against women

At least one-third of all women have been beaten, coerced into sex, or abused in their lifetime. More than 60 million women are "missing" from the world today due to sex-selective abortions and female infanticide. Every year, millions of women

Is China still socialist?

REVIEW BY EVA CHENG China and Socialism: Market Reforms and Class StruggleBy Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul BurkettMonthly Review July-August 2004130 pages Is China today still socialist, or has it turned capitalist? This is a nagging question

Deeper thinking on same-sex marriage rights

Jonathan Strauss, Sydney Discussion at the Marrickville Socialist Alliance's July 25 Politics in the Pub probed the significance of the demand for same-sex marriage rights. Rodney Croome, a spokesperson for the Equal Rights Network, and Bernard

CANADA: Ban on solidarity activist defeated

Federico Fuentes Toronto student Daniel Freeman-Maloy is finally able to return to his studies after York University dropped its bid to ban him for three years for taking part in political protests. Freeman-Maloy is an active member of Solidarity

Mental health system reaching point of breakdown

Graham Milner, Perth The crisis in mental health care in Western Australia has reached severe proportions. There are now rumours that the state government is preparing a new funding package for the sector without community consultation. A

A woman's place in is the struggle: Racism is a feminist issue

The feminist struggle against the oppression of women has expressed itself in a commitment to gender equality — to winning equal rights for women, to gaining more access for women to jobs, to equal pay and to ending violence by men against women.

Reinstate Craig Johnston's AMWU membership!

Sue Bolton The expulsion from the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union on July 21 of former Victorian state secretary Craig Johnston is totally unjustified and violates all union principle. By this act, AMWU national secretary Doug Cameron and

Lalitha Chelliah, Socialist Alliance candidate for the Senate, Victoria

I originally come from what is now a developing nation. Malaysia introduced me to racism in school, where three races were pitched against each other and race was used to politically organise people into voting blocks. Travelling to Britain to do a

VENEZUELA: New poll shows Chavez will win referendum

Roberto Jorquera A new opinion poll, conducted on July 15-22 by the US opinion research firm Evans McDonough Company (EMC), indicates that Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's radical left-wing president, could win the August 15 recall referendum with a