MELBOURNE — On May 10, delegates to the second national conference of the Socialist Alliance decided by a 75% majority vote to move the alliance toward becoming a united, multi-tendency socialist party.
The conference supported
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Women in the Philippines have launched a major campaign for reproductive rights in response to recent offensives against access to contraception and abortion. These offensives were triggered by the United States reintroducing the "global gag" rule
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ADELAIDE — Ninety-one years is not a bad lifespan and few people would have packed as much activity into it as did Norman Augustus Taylor, who passed away on April 17. Born in North London in 1912, Norm was educated in "the
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"We chose Australia as a country of justice and freedom", Iranian asylum seekers in Port Hedland detention centre wrote in an open letter to the Australian people on March 14. They were horrified, however, by what they found.
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At the 1998 constitutional convention, which debated whether or not Australia should become a republic, then-Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane Peter Hollingworth spoke in favour of the minimalist republic model that was subsequently
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RAMALLAH — The public announcement of the US-backed "road map" a few days after the inauguration of Palestinian Prime Minister Abu Mazen's new cabinet has been met with vocal opposition from leading Palestinian political
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Military triumphalism is all about: in letters to the editors, opinion pieces, commentaries and indeed in the smug countenances of numerous politicians. "The war is won", they proclaim. "Saddam is gone and the anti-war protesters
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Zionism I Craig Milner (Write On, GLW #536) refutes my argument that "Zionism means belief in an exclusively Jewish state" by quoting the Zionist Congress of 1897: "The aim of Zionism is to create for the Jewish people a home in Eretz-Israel
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"The massive number of young people who had the confidence to walk out of school, stand up to their teachers and protest against the war on Iraq was amazing", Kylie Moon told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly. A leader of the student anti-war
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As thousands of high school students walked out of class to oppose the war on Iraq, radio "shock jocks" condemned left-wing teachers and their unions for "imposing" their opposition to the war in Iraq on young students. So do
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SYDNEY — A seminar entitled "Deviance and Submission" was held by the Progressive Law Students Network at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) on May 6 to discuss the role of the law in legitimising state power. Dale Mills
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SYDNEY — On May 3, 30 people picketed the Manly office of federal MP Tony Abbott to protest against the Howard government's May 13 war budget. Socialist Alliance speaker Anne Picot explained that the Howard government has set
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SYDNEY — About 300 people demonstrated in Chifley Square on May 8 to protest the Coalition government's attacks on Medicare. The speakers included Wollongong Greens MP Michael Organ, Con Costa from the Doctor's Reform Society and Arthur
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SYDNEY — On May 7, activists from Fair Wear, an organisation dedicated to stopping the exploitation of home-based outworkers, held their own exhibition, "The clothes she wears" at Circular Quay, opposite the Museum of Contemporary Art. "Fashions
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Renowned Australian journalist and film-maker John Pilger has been awarded the 2003 Sophie Prize, one of the world's most generous environment and development prizes, for his work in helping the public to examine the real causes of
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Australian big business is beginning to get some of the benefits it expected from the war in Iraq, as Washington and US corporations start to scatter some crumbs. Prime Minister John Howard, the Australian wheat industry and one of
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DARWIN — On May 1, 40 people attended a public forum titled "People power — the new superpower". Organised by the No War committee, the forum was aimed at enabling people to discuss the situation facing anti-war activists
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SYDNEY — At a public meeting on May 8, representatives of the Greens, the Democrats and the ALP confirmed that their parties would block further plans to deregulate higher education through education minister Brendan
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NEWCASTLE — Transport minister Michael Costa has backed a proposal to close part of the Newcastle rail line. The Socialist Alliance held a May 5 public meeting to discuss how the railway line can be saved. The plan would cut the
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SYDNEY — On May 8, NSW Greens MP Lee Rhiannon criticised NSW Labor Premier Bob Carr for his insistence that the state's parliamentarians vote on age of consent laws according to their personal views, rather than their party's
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Easy to understand "We're explaining the situation to residents in an easy-to-understand way." — A public relations official of the Tokyo Electric Power company, after the company took all its nuclear reactors off line for testing on April 15
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On April 25, Abu Quassey was deported from Indonesia to Egypt. Quassey had admitted his responsibility for helping to organise the fatal SIEV-X voyage, in which 353 asylum seekers died on October 19, 2001, while trying to reach
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BY ELICIA SAVVAS& JAMES FRAZER ADELAIDE — The Students Association of Flinders University (SAFU) has discovered that the Flinders Academic Senate intends to set up a research centre within the university's history department that will foster
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The manipulation of immigration policy has been one of the key strategies used by the US rulers in their 44-year campaign to strangle Cuba's attempt to build socialism. Bolstered by its "victory" in Iraq, Washington is now
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European left organisations are planning a mass demonstration against the European Union summit, scheduled for June 20-22 in Greece. The venue, 100 kilometres from Thessalonika, was chosen by the Greek government in an attempt to
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JAKARTA — Organisers of the "Iraq and the Global Peace Movement: What Next?" conference, which will be held here on May 19-21, expect attendance by as many as 200 delegates from the broad anti-war coalitions that have emerged in
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Washington's quick and apparently easy military defeat of Iraq's Baathist regime is threatening to turn into a political debacle, exacerbating the very problems the US rulers hoped it would decisively help to overcome. The US
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Addressing 1 million people in Havana's Jose Mart¡ Revolution Square on May Day, Cuban President Fidel Castro warned that the US government was seeking to provoke a crisis with Cuba that Washington could use to launch an Iraq-style
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KIRKUK — Workers here commemorated May Day for the first time in three decades with a rally held in the garden of the North Oil Company, the northern division of Iraq's state-owned oil industry. The evening rally was attended by 3000 Iraqi Arabs,
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Earlier this year, before Washington's invasion of Iraq began, US President George Bush addressed US troops in Florida. "We seek more than the defeat of terror", he said. "We seek an advance of freedom and a world at peace. That is
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BY MATTHEW PRESTON& SARAH PEART GLASGOW — "Now we're going to take the street struggle into the parliament", said Frances Curran, newly elected Scottish Socialist Party Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP), neatly summing up the significance
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JOHANNESBURG — The African National Congress (ANC) government has just introduced an "anti-terrorism bill" in South Africa's parliament. If it is passed, it will in effect define the growing struggles of workers and the poor
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Britain's top cop has found that the country's security forces passed intelligence to loyalist terrorists in Northern Ireland, which allowed them to kill republicans. This had long been suspected by republican activists, but this is
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In many parts of Iraq, US-imposed "regime change" is bearing more than a passing resemblance to Iraq's former government. The May 7 Washington Post revealed that Baath Party members have been given senior roles in ministries
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"[Computer] games are potentially the most subversive media forms of our time", Kipper, the initiator of Escape from Woomera, told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly. Drawing on first-hand testimonies, media reports and government documents, this
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Korea — the Unknown War: an Illustrated HistoryBy Jon Halliday and Bruce CumingsPenguin Books, 1990 REVIEWED BY CHRIS SLEE The 1950-53 Korean War of was one of the bloodiest in history. Between 3 million and 4 million Koreans were killed, out
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The King of Love is Dead, Martin Luther King Jr, Backlash Blues, Workers World, Monica Moorehead "> Nina Simone: a powerful voice for black liberationThe world is mourning the tragic loss of African-American vocalist and
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