BY MICHAEL LEBOWITZ
"Nationalise the banks!", "Take over enterprises that have shutdown and run them instead by workers!", "Refuse to pay the external debt and use the funds to create jobs!", "Reduce the work week to 36 hours!", "Create new
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Canberra's moves to resume military cooperation with Jakarta, especially with the quasi-state-terror gang Kopassus, in the name of the "war on terror", should strongly be opposed by all those who support the democratic rights of the workers and
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — Following the decision by a wing of the Walk Against the War Coalition (WAWC) to initiate a new anti-war group — the Sydney Peace and Justice Coalition (SPJC) — a campaign has begun in earnest to maintain a united,
BY SETH ACKERMAN
NEW YORK — By the time the war against Iraq began, much of the media had been conditioned to believe, almost as an article of faith, that Saddam Hussein's Iraq was bulging with chemical and biological weapons, despite years of
BY DANNY FAIRFAX
More than 300,000 people attended demonstrations, forums, film showings and concerts in the Larzac plateau region of southern France on August 8-10. The Larzac Festival was held under the slogan, Le monde n'est pas une marchandise
BY DOUG LORIMER
With Iraqi resistance fighters inflicting casualties on the US and British occupation troops almost daily, and with the US administration's justification for invading Iraq — its alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction
BY ADAM MACLEAN
Attacking public media and people's access to voices other than its own is part of the Coalition government's systematic campaign of suppressing free speech and democratic rights.
Example one: The new anti-terrorism laws are now
[The Socialist Alliance is circulating this petition for use in union meetings. If passed, please email <ne@socialist-alliance.org> to let the alliance know.]
This branch of the [name of union] is committed to defending Medicare, and to
BY JANICE HART
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — In March and April, during and after the run-up to the US war on Iraq, the Albuquerque Public School (APS) District suspended five high school educators for having signs, flyers or student artwork about
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Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31, has excellent
BY IGGY KIM
Buoyed by its success in getting all 16 member-states in the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) to support its colonial-style intervention into the Solomons Islands, Canberra is now pushing for the various "arms of government" among Pacific
NEW YORK — More than 1500 organisations and individuals have endorsed the call by the International Act Now to Stop War and Racism (ANSWER) coalition's call for a massive demonstration in Washington DC on October 25 to demand an end to the US
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