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EAST TIMOR: New party faces election challenge

BY VANYA TANAJA LIQUICA, East Timor — Amidst the rubble of government offices which the jungle is starting to reclaim stands a flagpole flying, not the Indonesian red and white, but the red flag, the flag of the Socialist Party of Timor. This

Where we stand

Public need not corporate greed: Fund Medicare and end government funding of private schools, hospitals and health insurance Axe the GST, tax the rich: Introduce a highly progressive tax on incomes, profits and wealth of the rich. Jobs not

and ain't I a woman: Sex slavery in Australia?

Sex slavery is one of the ugliest and cruellest aspects of migrant trafficking, a trade which booms as the gap between rich and poor widens and the walls go up around rich countries. Trying to escape hardship for a new life, or to make money to

Iceland at its quirky best

101 ReykjavikDirected by Baltasar KormakurStars Victoria Abril, Hilmir Snaer Gudnason, Hanna Maria Karlsdottir2000 Sydney Film Festival REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM 101 Reykjavik is the postcode for the part of Iceland's capital that is off the

LEBANON: One year after the Israeli withdrawal

BY ASAD ABUKHALIL Quiet has apparently returned to the Lebanese-Israeli border after violent incidents in mid-May marked the first anniversary of Israel's forced withdrawal from southern Lebanon. Israeli forces shot two Lebanese men who were

'The time is right to make a move'

Socialist Alliance has now been launched in all capital cities, and a round of regional launches began on June 15 when 40 people attended the launch of the Newcastle Socialist Alliance. The audience was a cross-section of the sort of people who are

NSW workers comp: the campaign that wasn't

BY LISA MACDONALD SYDNEY — "We did not cave in or sell out. I want to make it clear that we remain opposed to the [workers' compensation] bill", NSW Labor Council secretary-elect John Robertson told the more than 200,000 workers who stopped work

Axe the GST: tax the rich!

By Rebecca Lemay The GST has got to go! It's not just a tax, but part of a system of taxation, which in the words of Business Review Weekly "is about shifting the burden of taxation from capital to labour." The GST widens the gap between rich and

Get on board the global justice express

"I think the economic logic of dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we have to face up to that." World Bank vice-president Lawrence Summers, December 1991. That quote is scary not only for what it says but for

Two new branches for Socialist Alliance

BY ROB MILLER MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance continues to expand with a new branch set up on June 28 in the federal electorate of Melbourne. Attended by 50 people, the Melbourne meeting brought together activists from a wide variety of

Write on: Letters to the editor

Factually correct Your article by Sean Healy (GLW #453) contains a large number of factually incorrect statements. Let me point out a few as pointed out by the eyewitnesses quoted in Aftonbladet and the Gotenborg Posten, and also fellow residents

Election boosts British socialists

By Ian Rintoul "A great start!" That's how the convenors of the English Socialist Alliance describe the result of the June general election, the first general election campaign of the Socialist Alliance. The Socialist Alliance and Scottish