By Ian Rintoul & Dick Nichols, national convenors, Socialist Alliance
The Socialist Alliance was formed last February by nine socialist organisations to meet the burning need for a real alternative in Australian politics:
An alternative for all
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BY TOM FLANAGAN
"Whilst we might be the first trade union to walk away from the ALP this week, we also hope for the sake of injured workers in this state that we won't be the last", said Chris Read, the secretary of the NSW Fire Brigade Employees'
BY SEAN HEALY
Not even a decision by the World Bank to cancel its Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics was enough to divert the anger of 40,000 Catalans, who on June 24 demonstrated against the World Bank and its devotion to corporate
BY SEAN HEALY
Some of the world's largest corporations came under fire in the southern Californian city of San Diego on June 24, when 1600 environmentalists marched on the annual convention of the Biotechnology Industry Organisation, to protest
COMMENT BY SARAH STEPHEN
Aboriginal communities are populated by drunken, violent criminals, are racked by internal squabbling and lack any credible leadership — if you believe corporate media reporting of indigenous domestic violence.
NSW
Blue Mountains
bluemountains@socialist-alliance.org
Info: 9687 5134
Lismore
lismore@socialist-alliance.org
Info: 6622 5050 (Edda) or
6622 0103 (Nick)
Newcastle
newcastle@socialist-alliance.org
Info: 4926 5328 (Steve)
Insensitive humour
"A person reveals his [or her] character by nothing so clearly as the joke [s/]he resents." — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799).
The chosen profession of Lichtenberg was physics, but as you can see by the quote that
BY MARY MERKENICH & NORRIAN RUNDLE
Victorian teachers have been sold out again by their union, following its decision to abandon a campaign for increased schools funding in the state budget.
The Australian Education Union had called a stopwork
BY JENNIFER WANJIRU
NAIROBI — Environmentalists in Kenya have threatened court action to stop the filming of the US television show Survivor Series III, that formally begins on July 1 and runs to September 30. They accuse the filmmakers of
BY MALIK MIAH
On June 8, the United States Civil Rights Commission issued a divided report on the electoral process in Florida during the 2000 presidential election. By a partisan vote of six to two, the eight-member commission voted along party
By Linda Waldron
"I'm not interested in the mobile phone or being addressed as 'Councillor'. What is important is to give the city back to the people. It's time the council reflected the interests of residents, small business, the poor and the
Watermarks
Ever taped a record or CD music track for a friend? It's illegal, but lots of people do it without a thought. After all, the record companies are hardly impoverished. Now you can do much more. Millions of people are exchanging music, in
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