Labor's 'promises' are rather slippery, to say the least — pinning down exactly what it will do is a bit like trying to nail jelly to a wall.
Dairy deregulation: Labor will not re-regulate the industry. A Beazley government would review the Dairy
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BY DICK NICHOLS
MEXICO CITY — The leaders of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), headed by Subcomandante Marcos, are to emerge from Chiapas, the southernmost Mexican state where they led their famous 1994 uprising of the region's
BY NORM DIXON
The February 16 bombing of Baghdad by US and British warplanes was a calculated signal by US President George W. Bush's regime that it will continue - and escalate - the genocidal war against the Iraqi people begun by the US
BY GAIL LORD
PARRAMATTA — After staging the first International Women's Day march and rally in Parramatta for 30 years in 2000, feminists in Sydney's western suburbs are organising an even bigger IWD action on March 8 with the theme, "Women
Or a new system
"When you try all the tools in your toolbox and they don't work, then you have to try a new tool." — US Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill on attempts to revive the Japanese economy. He didn't suggest what the "'new tool" might be.
The Full Montezuma: Around Central America and the Caribbean with the Girl Next DoorBy Peter MooreBantam Books 2000
Reviewed by Jackie Coleman
Australian travel writer, Peter Moore's The Full Montezuma, is an account of a six-month overland trip
BY MARCUS PABIAN& TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — About 300 people packed the Trades Hall auditorium on February 20 to oppose the federal government's policy of imprisoning refugees. The meeting, organised by the Refugee Action Collective, demanded that
BY PATRICK BONDÂ
JOHANNESBURG — If you had a choice, which city would you choose to
host the 2002 “World Summit on Sustainable Development” — also known as
Rio+10 — in which 60,000 delegates will jaw-jaw about the world's social
and
BY SEAN HEALY
Support for the May 1 blockades of stock exchanges and financial districts continues to grow, including amongst trade unions.
Progress is most advanced in Victoria where a number of militant unions are growing increasingly keen on
At 2pm on February 7, Ecuadoran indigenous leaders signed a 23-point
accord with President Gustavo Noboa Bejarano, ending an indigenous uprising
against economic policies imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The uprising started on
Imagine: a Socialist Vision for the 21st Century
By Tommy Sheridan and Allan McCombes
Canongate Books, Edinburgh, 2001
$21
Available in March from Resistance bookshops (see page 2)
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That's Why I'm Working — Examines child
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