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Police attack Reclaim the Streets

BY AARON BENEDEK SYDNEY — Two solid rows of police, including some on horseback, confronted 300 people who gathered outside Newtown railway station here on December 16 for a Reclaim the Streets street party, encircling them and forcing them

Bristol cool and Havana heat

Rebel RadioCD/CD-ROM by Up, Bustle and OutNinja Tune Records The Rebel Radio DiariesBy Rupert MouldLa Prensa Rebelde REVIEW BY NICK FREDMAN "On February 1958, in the Sierra Maestra Mountains to the Northwest of Santiago de Cuba, Che installed

Ten years of refusing to toe the line

BY SEAN HEALY This week, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly celebrates its 10th birthday. Through a decade of tumult, of wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions, we've lived long and prospered. Our first issue actually appeared on February 28, 1991 but, such

Big socialist meeting discusses anti-corporate campaign

BY NICK EVERETT SYDNEY — "We must work together to build a wall of public opinion against corporate greed and exploitation", Cuban Communist Party member Abelardo Cueto Sosa told the biggest meeting of left activists to be held in Sydney's

RUSSIA: Is there life for KPRF after Yeltsin?

BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), the child of Gennady Zyuganov, might to almost the same degree be called the child of Boris Yeltsin. Throughout the entire period from 1993 to 1999 the party had a clearly

Refugee trials begin

BY KATHY NEWNAM ADELAIDE — The trials of refugees charged with involvement in the alleged August "riots" at the Woomera Immigration Detention Centre, in the South Australian desert, began here on December 18. The case against the first defendant,

Radio Rentals workers locked out

BY BRONWEN BEECHEY ADELAIDE — Radio Rentals has locked out 40 technicians, members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, over a long-running pay dispute. The technicians have been demanding a 5% pay rise, which would be their first since

Fighting Fund off to a flying start

The 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly Fighting Fund got off to a flying start at the Democratic Socialist Party's January 3-7 congress. Members and supporters of the party pledged a massive $121,615 at the congress rally. It was the first of a series of special

Campaign needed to defend BHP Pilbara workers

BY ANTHONY BENBOW AND MELANIE SJOBERG  Workers employed at BHP operations in WA's Pilbara region must be feeling a bad sense of d‚j… vu. In January last year, they were forced to fight to defend their jobs and hard-won conditions when

Networker: Where is the information automobile?

Welfare reform abolishes safety net

BY ALISON DELLIT With its December 14 response to the final report of the Reference Group on Welfare Reform, the McClure report, the federal government has taken a giant step down its desired path of restructuring the entire welfare system. By

A stimulus for action

Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the PoorEdited by Jim Yong Kim, Joyce Millen, Alec Irwin and John GershmanCommon Courage Press, Monroe, MaineAvailable at <http://www.amazon.com> REVIEW BY STEPHEN LANGFORD For