BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — A May 1 forum organised by the Socialist Alliance hosted a lively debate about whether the budget should be blocked, after Greens speaker Pamela Curr explained her party's opposition.
The forum, attended by 60 people,
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BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — Members of Australia's largest union, the Community and Public Sector Union, have begun voting for national office bearers to lead the CPSU for the next two and a half years.
The broad left coalition Members First,
BY PETER BOYLE
On April 25-26, the national committee of the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) decided to support the initiative by the Non-Aligned Caucus in the Socialist Alliance to move forward the process of left regroupment. The open letter
Every day last week, the newspapers carried full-page lists of medicines and dietary supplements recalled by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), after it suspended the manufacturing licence of Pan Pharmaceuticals for six months on April 28.
BY BEH LIH YI
KUALA LUMPUR — Around 1000 people, including plantation and factory workers, farmers, urban settlers and students, attended a lunch-time rally on May 1 in the Dataran Merdeka (Independence Square) to commemorate May Day.
Organised
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Coalition government argues that it is impossible to provide a world-class health care system that is free to all citizens at the point of delivery. Yet that's exactly what a Third World country in the Caribbean has been able
BY OSCAR JUKES
DARWIN — East Timor's parliament is discussing a new law that would allow the interior ministry to deport any foreigner who engages in political activity or even attends a political meeting or demonstration.
The proposed law was
BY SUSAN AUSTIN
JAKARTA — About 10,000 people marched on May 1 in a colourful display of opposition to the anti-worker policies of the Indonesian government. Organised by the May Day Action Committee, the demonstration drew together contingents
BY ALISON DELLIT
On May 2, I was startled to read an article in the Melbourne Age quoting "opposition leader Kim Beazley" talking about federal housing. After a brief check, I confirmed that there had been no sudden change in the federal Labor
BY ROHAN PEARCE
With the destruction of the Baath Party regime, two significant political poles have emerged within Iraq — US-imposed administration headed by retired US general Jay Garner and the anti-US occupation Shiite clergy.
It is the
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The nightmare of US health care — where medical bills are the highest cause of bankruptcy and 42 million people have no access to care — may be around the corner for Australia, as the Coalition government prepares to use the
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