SYDNEY — Forty Socialist Alliance members marched in the 25th annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade behind a banner reading "Medicare not warfare". The parade, held on March 6, was observed by at least 250,000 people, despite constant
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Bill Bartlett, Hobart
Members of the Acosamrel Salvadoran housing cooperative have been galvanised into action in the face of a threat to wind up the cooperative and hand its assets over to another organisation. The cooperative was formed in 1991
In December, the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) passed resolution 137, which, if it had been approved by the Paul Bremer, head of the US-dominated Coalition Provisional Authority, would have overturned Iraq's pre-war secular Personal
Eva Cheng
The re-emergence of concurrent deficits in the external current account and the federal budget of the United States — dubbed the "twin deficits" — and the likelihood of them continuing to grow for a long time, has reignited a debate
Australia, NSW in particular, has been internationally praised for sex industry reform and maintaining one of the lowest HIV rates of any sex industry in the world. However, Erica Red and Saul Isbister, winners of the NSW World Aids Day 2002
Doug Lorimer
On March 2, a dozen suicide bombers killed 181 worshippers, injuring another 573, outside Shiite Muslim shrines in Karbala and Baghdad. US officials immediately claimed the attacks were part of a plot by Jordanian-born Islamic
Twenty members and supporters of the Newcastle Socialist Alliance branch launched the alliance's campaign for the Newcastle City Council with a rally at Civic Railway Station on March 12. Alliance candidates Peter Robson, Geoff Payne and Judy
James Vassilopoulos
The social democratic Pan Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) was booted out of office in the March 7 general election. The conservative New Democracy (ND) gained government and the new Coalition of the Radical Left (SYN) won 6
Chris Slee, Melbourne
Speaking to at least 500 people at a public meeting at Melbourne University on March 11, British freelance journalist Yvonne Ridley detailed the lies and manipulation of the media by the US and British governments during the
Ben Reid, Newcastle
A wave of disgust and some resignations from the National Tertiary Education Union have swept academic staff at the Newcastle University as a result of NTEU branch president Wayne Reynolds' support for increased HECS fees for
SYDNEY — On March 8, a police officer approached a bookstall at the University of NSW, staffed by members of the socialist youth organisation Resistance, and told them that unless they stopped handing out leaflets, the students could "disappear
Nick Fredman, Bangkok
Marching behind a banner reading "Thailand is not a company Thaksin", tens of thousands of Thai workers protested in the Thai capital on March 9 against the plans of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinauatra's government to privatise
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