BY IGGY KIM
PARIS — A delegation from the Daewoo Workers' Joint Struggle Committee arrived here on February 23 to internationalise their current struggle against the bankrupt South Korean automobile manufacturer.
The delegation is made up of Yu
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The real power in global financial markets rests with "institutional investors", the professional speculators:
Commercial banks: The traditional big boys of the financial world, commercial banks' basic business is retail: to pay depositors less
Looking out: Ruddock's Racist Rhetoric
“If you look at a generation, you are looking at all people of that
age. The question is do you allege that all of a particular age were affected
by these measures? The actual answer is no” — Philip
BY KEARA COURTNEY
CANBERRA — The capitalist system wasn't unable to meet the needs of the majority of people, it was unwilling to, the Democratic Socialist Party's Max Lane told a forum held at the Australian National University here on March 7.
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Vietnam and Other American FantasiesBy H. Bruce FranklinUniversity of Massachusetts Press, 2000256 pp, $59.95 (hb)
Elvis is alive and living in Los Angeles. Our planet is regularly visited by extraterrestrial beings who
BY SUE BOLAND
The Democrats' leadership battle between current leader Senator Meg Lees and challenger Senator Natasha Stott Despoja was sparked by the party's poor results in the recent Western Australian and Queensland state elections where they
Socialist Alliance and the PLP — 1
Your reporting on the Socialist Alliance and position of leading members of the PLP in Sydney and Canberra was ambiguous and created a false impression.
In Canberra there is, so far, no Socialist Alliance and
SAN FRANCISCO — The richest US citizens are paying a declining share of their income even as their incomes grow more rapidly than everyone else's does. Yet President George W. Bush announced a budget that includes a tax cut proposal that will give
BY STUART MUNCKTON
CANBERRA — After much debate over some months, the M1 Alliance here has decided to organise a peaceful blockade outside Mining Industry House, rather than join the blockade at the Sydney stock exchange.
The decision was taken
BY ANTHEA STUTTER
HOBART — The announcement on the eve of International Women's Day that the Women's Health Foundation (Abortion Clinic) will be closing has raised questions about the ongoing access of women in Tasmania to necessary health care.
BY CHRIS LATHAM & PIP HINMAN
On February 20 the "cease-fire" between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian military (TNI) was extended for the third time since the so-called humanitarian pause in 2000. These declarations mean nothing,
BY ALISON DELLIT
Two separate inquiries into the Australian government's refugee detention centres have confirmed reports that detained refugees have been harassed and the centres mismanaged. The picture that has emerged is of desert hell-holes
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