BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — On May 3, 30 people picketed the Manly office of federal MP Tony Abbott to protest against the Howard government's May 13 war budget.
Socialist Alliance speaker Anne Picot explained that the Howard government has set
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BY ARUN PRADHAN
"[Computer] games are potentially the most subversive media forms of our time", Kipper, the initiator of Escape from Woomera, told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly. Drawing on first-hand testimonies, media reports and government documents, this
BY KATYA GOODALL
European left organisations are planning a mass demonstration against the European Union summit, scheduled for June 20-22 in Greece.
The venue, 100 kilometres from Thessalonika, was chosen by the Greek government in an attempt to
BY DOUG LORIMER
Addressing 1 million people in Havana's Jose Mart¡ Revolution Square on May Day, Cuban President Fidel Castro warned that the US government was seeking to provoke a crisis with Cuba that Washington could use to launch an Iraq-style
BY MATTHEW PRESTON& SARAH PEART
GLASGOW — "Now we're going to take the street struggle into the parliament", said Frances Curran, newly elected Scottish Socialist Party Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP), neatly summing up the significance
BY DALE McKINLEY
JOHANNESBURG — The African National Congress (ANC) government has just introduced an "anti-terrorism bill" in South Africa's parliament. If it is passed, it will in effect define the growing struggles of workers and the poor
BY DALE MILLS
Britain's top cop has found that the country's security forces passed intelligence to loyalist terrorists in Northern Ireland, which allowed them to kill republicans. This had long been suspected by republican activists, but this is
BY ROHAN PEARCE
In many parts of Iraq, US-imposed "regime change" is bearing more than a passing resemblance to Iraq's former government. The May 7 Washington Post revealed that Baath Party members have been given senior roles in ministries
BY DALE MILLS
SYDNEY — A seminar entitled "Deviance and Submission" was held by the Progressive Law Students Network at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) on May 6 to discuss the role of the law in legitimising state power.
Dale Mills
BY PETER BOYLE
MELBOURNE — On May 10, delegates to the second national conference of the Socialist Alliance decided by a 75% majority vote to move the alliance toward becoming a united, multi-tendency socialist party.
The conference supported
BY VIC POTTICARY
ADELAIDE — Ninety-one years is not a bad lifespan and few people would have packed as much activity into it as did Norman Augustus Taylor, who passed away on April 17.
Born in North London in 1912, Norm was educated in "the
BY RALF SCHARMANN
DARWIN — On May 1, 40 people attended a public forum titled "People power — the new superpower". Organised by the No War committee, the forum was aimed at enabling people to discuss the situation facing anti-war activists
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