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Every Socialist Alliance supporter can help the Aston by-election campaign: If you live in Victoria, you can hand out how-to-vote cards and then join us at our election night party! To volunteer for July 14, ring (03) 9386 4815, 9639 8622, 9388
BY SEAN HEALY What started as a peaceful student sit-in against privatisation may yet erupt into a nationwide uprising against Prime Minister Sir Makere Morauta, after police shot dead at least three students in what some have dubbed "Papua New
BY SARAH STEPHEN In the past few weeks, you'd be forgiven for thinking that non-indigenous women had stopped suffering sexual and domestic violence decades ago. That's because the framework that has been set for the discussion about violence
BY SHANE BENTLEY NEWCASTLE — The chief executive officers of Westpac, the National Australia Bank and ANZ earn between $1.6 and $2.4 million a year — but bank staff earn as little as $25,307 a year, or $12.76 an hour, and contribute between
REVIEW BY MARINA CARMAN The politics of truth and reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the post-Apartheid stateBy Richard A. WilsonCambridge University Press 2001271 pages $39.95 Finally, the story behind the "miracle" transition in
BY MATTHEW EGAN & BRONWYN POWELL SYDNEY - More than 100 student activists from across Australia discussed the way forward for the anti-corporate movement at the June 29-30 Globalise This: Student Anti-Capitalist Conference. The conference began
To the founding conference of the Socialist Alliance Saturday, August 4 and Sunday August 5, Trades Hall, Lygon Street, Melbourne The founding conference of the Socialist Alliance will adopt the platform and constitution of the Alliance and set
BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY To judge from opinion surveys, newspaper reports and simply from conversations on the street, Russian society is moving leftward. To judge from the statements of politicians and the relationship of forces within the elite,
BY CHRIS SLEE & GRAHAM MATTHEWS MELBOURNE — On June 30 Socialist Alliance activists took their campaign in the federal electorate of Aston to the streets to protest the first anniversary of the GST. The Aston by-election, to be held on July 14,
BY TIM GOODEN GEELONG — After two months of fruitless attempts to negotiate a pay increase, workers at Geelong Windows decided that only industrial action would make their boss see reason — and got what they were demanding after a week of

It is only three weeks since Tony Blair led New Labour to a landslide victory in the British elections. But the future looks grim for the government, with members of the largest union in the country openly questioning their allegiance to the Labour party and pledging a full-blown fight against Blair's privatisation plans.

BY KERRYN WILLIAMS JAKARTA — "It's become much worse since the economic crisis. There are more homeless people, more street singers, and more street sellers", Onie told me, before turning back to his battered guitar and filling the tiny office of