James Lehrer, La Paz
After three weeks of mobilisations in defence of Bolivia's gas reserves, the country's political crisis continues to deepen. A June 2 attempt to quash the crisis by President Carlos Mesa, by calling elections for a new
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Marce Cameron
In recent months Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has not missed an opportunity to urge his supporters to contribute to a historic debate on the future of the country's Bolivarian revolution.
In the multitude of popular
Norm Dixon
Zimbabwe's authoritarian capitalist government, headed by President Robert Mugabe, has unleashed a massive wave of police brutality and destruction in an attempt to terrorise the country's fiercely anti-government urban working class and
Susan Price, Sydney
On June 1, more than 1500 university and TAFE staff from campuses across Sydney were joined by students and unionists from other sectors for a rally and march. This was part of a national day of protest against the federal
James Vassilopoulos
Seventy-two per cent of workers are not taken in by the federal Coalition government's argument that exempting companies with less than 100 employees from unfair dismissal laws will create jobs.
An ACTU-commissioned survey
Alex Miller is a member of the Socialist Alliance national executive and the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly-Socialist Alliance editorial liaison board.
In a recent speech to the Socialist Alliance national executive, Louise Walker argued that there are
CANBERRA — Chilean solidarity activists around Australia have been holding information evenings to raise awareness of the conditions of political prisoners being held in Chile and other Latin American jails.
Galvarino Sergio Apablaza Guerra, also
The Abu Ghraib prison scandal, exposing the brutal treatment of Iraqi prisoners by US army personnel, was not an isolated incident:
Interrogators in US prisons in Afghanistan frequently use torture to acquire confessions and have caused many
Reconstruction
"Iraq's interior minister was giving awards to 75 members of the Wolf brigade anti-insurgency unit Wednesday when the lights went out, a sign of the country's inability to restore basic services more than two years after the fall of
On May 31, Ken Good, an Australian professor working at Botswana University, lost his appeal against deportation. Good has been a fierce critic of the lack of democracy in Botswana and of the government's policy of forcibly relocating Bushmen from
Louise Walker is a national co-convener of the Socialist Alliance who is not a member of any of the organisations affiliated to the alliance.
What do you consider to be the major gains of the Socialist Alliance so far?
The Socialist Alliance has
On May 22, the Scottish Socialist Party announced that Rosie Kane, an SSP member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow, has been invited to Cuba. Rosie will speak at an international conference, "Against terrorism, for truth and justice", to be held
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