The sound of the United States' future
By Norm Dixon
California is infamous for the 1991 bashing of black motorist Rodney King and the 1992 Los Angeles "riot" — in reality a spontaneous uprising — that was triggered when the cops responsible
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By Michael Karadjis
"The massacres that never were", ran the headline in the right-wing London Spectator. The article reported claims by journalist John Laughland that "only" hundreds of Albanians had been killed in Kosova during the NATO-Serbia
Labor faces by-elections in Queensland
By Graham Matthews
BRISBANE — The Queensland Labor government will face two by-elections in traditionally safe Labor seats on February 5. The by-elections are the result of the resignations of former
NZ unionist killed on picket line
By Murray Addison
AUCKLAND — The New Zealand port of Lyttelton, near Christchurch, came to a standstill on January 5 as 250 port workers defied their employer, the Lyttelton Port Company, and walked off the job
Workers act against ACI lockout
By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — Members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union are picketing the ACI glass mould manufacturing plant in Box Hill. The workers have been locked out since December 20. The union
A scientific guide to revolution
Fundamentals of Historical MaterialismBy Doug LorimerResistance Books, 1999216 pp., $12.95Available at all Resistance Bookshops, or write to PO Box 515, Broadway NSW 2007. Review by Chris Slee
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On January 14, more than 100,000 people marched in Cuba to demand that the United States government immediately return six-year-old Elian Gonzalez to his father in Cuba. Despite calls by Elian's father and the Cuban government for the child's safe
Women's health funding restricted — again
The federal government has announced that it will cut by more than 20% rebates for ultrasound scans for women in early pregnancy. This will curb "overuse" of the service, it claims. Acting health
"In the world, the tendency today is to bury Marxism and communism. The equation is simple: the collapse of the European socialist bloc is the end of the ideology and the theory
Out of IrelandBy Christopher KochDoubleday, 1999, 706pp., $39.95 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon
During the Great Famine in Ireland from 1847-51, one and a half million Irish people starved to death while millions of pounds worth of food was exported,
By Barry Sheppard
SAN FRANCISCO — The Battle of Seattle, the days of protest in December against the World Trade Organisation, has focused many people's minds on global inequality and "corporate capitalism" and inspired many to join the struggle
ALP-Labor Council-unions deal: a mini-Accord?
By Jenny Long
SYDNEY — The NSW government's pay offer to nearly 200,000 public sector employees (see article on this page) should be approached by workers with considerable caution. The involvement
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