BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — Over the last two weeks, Socialist Alliance branches in Sydney have been attempting, without success, to get clarification from the Palm Sunday 2002 committee of why alliance members have been banned from attending Palm
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BY ROHAN PEARCE
On March 12, UN secretary-general Kofi Annan made a speech that contained some of the harshest criticisms of Israel by any UN representative since the second intifada began in September 2000.
Annan said: "Large-scale military
BY NORM DIXON
On March 13, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was officially pronounced the winner of the March 9-11 presidential election with 55% of the vote. Mugabe's "victory" over opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) candidate
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BY RJURIK DAVIDSON
In August 1967, 15 or so “hippies” took a tour of the New York Stock
Exchange. There, at the Mecca of global commerce, the
BY GARY MEYERHOFF
DARWIN — "No votes for ratbags" was the headline of the editorial in the March 7 Northern Territory News. The News was referring to the Socialist Alliance and its candidate for Lord Mayor of Darwin, Ruth Ratcliffe.
The same
BY ALISON DELLIT
It would be easy to think, watching Channel 10's ever-so-hip coverage of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, that homophobia in Australia was in retreat. But the March 12 attack, under parliamentary privilege, by cabinet
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — Almost 30 years after the violent destruction of the reformist government of Salvador Allende in Chile, a repeat performance is being planned in Venezuela.
Little of this has been reported in Britain. Indeed, little is
BY SIMON TAYLER
SYDNEY — Since the federal election, the campaign against the government's policy on refugees has grown dramatically. Dozens of new refugees' rights groups have formed. Labor for Refugees groups have formed in a number of states.
BY ALLEN JENNINGS
Early on February 21, Colombia's 38-year civil conflict exploded into full-fledged war when President Andres Pastrana unilaterally broke off peace talks with the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and ordered
BY NORM DIXON
Some 100,000 trade unionists and anti-corporate activists filled the streets of Barcelona on March 14 to call for a "social Europe". The protest came as the European Union summit prepared to meet on March 16-17 in the Catalan
Michael Albert, co-founder of the Boston-based Z Magazine (<http://www.zmag.org>) will be one of the feature speakers at the Second Asia-Pacific International Solidarity Conference to be held in Sydney on March 28-April 2. He is also the
BY BARRY HEALY
PERTH — Under pressure from local residents, the Western Australian
health department on March 8 released worrying figures on cancer rates
in the Kwinana industrial area, south of Perth. The government department
is playing
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