Socialist Alliance?
It is quite obvious that, due to media bias and reactionary politics, terms such as socialism, communism, anarchy, green and left have been effectively discredited in the minds of a lot of people.
The expression "Socialist
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BY SARAH STEPHENÂ
Public anger is mounting at the federal government's treatment of
asylum seekers, following a May 26 raid on the Port Hedland detention centre
and the arrest of 22 refugees singled out from a May 11 riot at the
COMMENT BY ROBERTO JORQUERAÂ
PERTH — According to countless media commentators and letter writers,
the M1 protesters who blockaded stock exchanges around the country were
violent, undemocratic and hypocritical because they were denying
“Don't you realize that I could have killed you ten times by now — your
monkey boy bodyguards notwithstanding...” — anonymous.
The hate-filled words heading this essay are from a bullying letter
sent to an African-American student leader at
BY JEREMY SMITH
The Australian Vice-ChancellorsÂ’ Committee has released a new survey
of post-secondary education demonstrating the effects of funding cuts on
teaching. Overall the staff to student ratio for the industry has increased
by 3%
BY MARK BROWN
GLASGOW — In a powerful blow against the anti-refugee bigots, the Campaign to Welcome Refugees here held a 200-strong hustings meeting in the city's Moir Hall on May 24. Representatives of all six parties, including the Scottish
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — Chanting "Hands off workers' comp!", 2000 construction workers and their supporters brought lunchtime traffic to a halt as they marched through the city on May 29. The rally was smaller than originally expected due to a
BY MARGARET ALLUM
Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair is smug in the knowledge that his government is almost certain of victory in the June 7 British general election. Blair knows that the continuing political impotence of the Tory opposition will
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
War Criminals Welcome: Australia, A Sanctuary for War Criminals since 1945By Mark AaronsBlack Inc, 2001649 pp, $34.95 (pb)
When justice minister Amanda Vanstone said that the alleged Latvian war criminal Konrads Kalejs was
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REVIEW BY ALISON DELLIT
“It's just a game show”, said contestant Johnny to fellow contestant
Sharna, in the
BY ADAM MACLEAN
With an eye on countering a rural backlash, the federal Liberal-National
government has announced significant telecommunication policy backflips
in the May 22 budget.
As well as committing itself to not sell off the
BY ROHAN PEARCE
"CHOGM and the Commonwealth Business Council are the next stops for the anti-corporate movement and we're going take to the streets with a clear message — global justice not global misery", Angela Luvera, Sydney Resistance central
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