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The rise and fall of a broad left ticket

BY LEIGH HUGHES CANBERRA — A common lament heard on university campuses around Australia in the last month has been: "Damn, it's the third term." It reflects the level of enthusiasm for the student government election period. Years of

ITALY: Sixty still in prison after Genoa

BY SEAN HEALY While they undoubtedly thought that brutality would fix everything, things are only getting worse for Italy's authorities, with ever more condemnations coming from ever wider circles of their violent attempts to put down anti-G8

UNITED STATES: Mass sackings will deepen downturn

BY EVA CHENG Companies in the US planned to lay off 205,975 workers in July, 65% more than in June. These new cuts bring the total US job losses so far this year to nearly a million, three times those over the same period last year. Such cuts are

Dulwich Hill fights to keep its school open

BY NOREEN NAVIN SYDNEY — Teachers and parents in Dulwich Hill, in Sydney's inner west, are rallying to defend their local high school, appealing for statewide industrial action if the NSW government decides to close the school. The two-month

INDONESIA: Police arrest another PRD activist

BY MAX LANE In moves which confirm activists' appraisals that her government represents a return to power of those allied with former dictator Suharto, the government of newly-elected president Megawati Sukarnoputri is escalating a targeted program

The Socialist Alliance and the new movement

BY PETER BOYLE What orientation should the Socialist Alliance take towards the new global anti-corporate movement? While the founding conference of the Socialist Alliance adopted a platform that brings together the main demands and slogans of the

UNITED STATES: Treating US teens contemptuously

BY CYNTHIA PETERS Type "teen jobs" in the findinfo.com search engine, and a good portion of what it turns up will have something to do with teens and blow jobs. The few actual links to job listings talk in glorified terms about "career planning"

Campaigners demand repeal of anti-abortion laws

BY ROBYN MARSHALL BRISBANE — Hundreds of people took action around the country on August 8, in a national day of action to demand the repeal of anti-abortion laws. August 8 marked the anniversary of the introduction of Medicare payments for

CUBA: Castro congratulates Genoa protesters

BY SEAN HEALY Cuban President Fidel Castro has congratulated the 300,000 people who protested against global capitalism during the July 20-22 summit of G8 leaders in Genoa, Italy, and joked that world leaders might soon have to meet on the

Student activists map out anti-corporate protests

BY FEDERICO FUENTES MELBOURNE — Students have begun to organise for the biggest possible blockade of the Commonwealth Business Forum on October 3 to 5. On nearly all university and TAFE campuses, students have formed collectives to help build the

Unmasking our new rulers

The New Rulers of the WorldWritten and directed by John PilgerScreening on SBS, Tuesday, August 21, 8.30pm REVIEW BY SEAN HEALY "Do you know the difference between Tanzania and Goldman Sachs? The gross national product of Tanzania is $2.2

ACEH: ExxonMobil accused of 'ethnic genocide'

BY SAM FROST Oil giant ExxonMobil's operations in the Indonesian province of Aceh are to be examined by a US court, after 11 Acehnese filed a suit against the company, claiming to have suffered human rights abuses at the hands of military units