BY DOUG LORIMER
On April 30, the US State Department branded Iran "the most active state sponsor of terrorism during 2002". A week later, the department accused Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons in violation of the nuclear
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BY DOUG LORIMER
"Nothing dramatises the criminally anti-social nature of the Howard-Costello government so much as the federal treasurer's latest budget", Socialist Alliance national co-convener Lisa Macdonald told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly.
Macdonald
BY ALICIA JRAPKO
With 57% of the Argentinian population in poverty and an official unemployment rate of 30%, workers have responded by seizing control of factories abandoned by their owners due to bankruptcy or lack of profits.
Fifty years ago,
BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — While lawyers and visitors have been denied access to Iranian detainees at Australia's refugee concentration camps, Iranian government officials have been given access, Greens spokesperson on refugees Pamela Curr told 50
BY ALEX SALMON
PERTH — Seven-hundred people attended a meeting at Fremantle Town Hall on May 14, to hear long-time peace activist Reverend Neville Watson, who has just returned from a "peace mission" in Iraq.
The 73-year-old Watson travelled to
BY ALISON DELLIT
Federal Greens politicians have condemned the government's federal budget, Greens Senator Bob Brown describing it as "bereft of humanity and environmental responsibility".
Brown said that the budget would deepen the divide
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — Australian and international delegates met at the "Keep space for peace" conference on May 17-18 to discuss greater cooperation of the international peace movement, especially to combat the increasing militarisation
International Resources Group
The US Agency for International Development awarded a US$7.1 million contract for "personnel support" to the International Resources Group on February 25. The contract was awarded without competitive tendering.
BY BUSTER SOUTHERLY
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — On May 1, poet, teacher, youth poetry coach and 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly writer Bill Nevins received a terse notice from the Rio Rancho School District informing him that he has been fired from his Rio
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. Includes the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ news. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Phone (o2) 9564 1277. Visit
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — In a "private settlement", three Victorian unions have agreed to pay $300,000 in fines to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for violating the secondary boycott provisions of the Trade
BY MILES MILTON
LONDON — The Socialist Alliance has its first local councillor in England following the May 1 British local government elections. Michael Lavalette won in Preston town centre ward, in Lancashire, with 546 votes (38%), trouncing
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