BY GRANT COLEMAN
At the national conference of the National Union of Students (NUS) in December, the socialist youth organisation Resistance walked out of the left-wing faction called the National Broad Left (NBL). Instead of participating in this
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BY SUE BULL
GEELONG — Following the demise of Wainwright's Tree in September 1999, this city has desperately needed a progressive bookshop and activist centre. The Democratic Socialist Party, Resistance and 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly have announced that
BY SHUA GARFIELD
HOBART — The National Union of Students (NUS) education committee met on January 25 to plan its campaigns for 2001.
One of the main issues discussed was how NUS should respond to the Labor Party's federal election policy
Echos
"The problem facing both leaders is that the more they try to distance themselves from each other, the more they are sounding the same." — Paul Coorey, the Adelaide Advertiser's chief political reporter comparing Prime Menzies John Howard
BY SEAN HEALY
Suddenly all the triumphalism is gone and the erstwhile "Masters of the Universe" are sounding like whining rich kids whose snowboards have been taken away from them.
Over the last decade, the World Economic Forum's annual meeting,
BY JOHN PERCY
At its 19th congress in January, the Democratic Socialist Party decided to support the holding of a second Asia-Pacific international solidarity conference over the 2002 Easter weekend (March 29-April 1).
The 2002 conference — to
BY EVA CHENG
The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) has taken an extraordinary series of measures to contribute to the efforts to relieve the devastating impact of the January 26 earthquake in Gujarat, in India's north west.
The
BY PHIL SHANNON
CANBERRA — The federal Department of Health and Aged Care has been publicly embarrassed by a recent outbreak of legionella in one of its Canberra buildings.
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) reports that staff in the
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BY JACQUI LEE
PERTH — The Democratic Socialist Party's candidates in the February 10 Western Australian state election are calling on their supporters to give their first preference votes to socialist and Green candidates and to return a Labor
BY SEAN HEALY
The Burmese military regime has revealed that it has been in secret talks with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi since October, the first face-to-face meetings between the Nobel Peace Prize winner and the generals since 1994. But
BY GAIL LORD
SYDNEY — Community activists from Richmond, Penrith and across the Blue Mountains are organising to stop a new women's prison from being built in Windsor, on the city's western outskirts. They say the state government should
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