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Leaders of the New Zealand Maori Party have been touring Australian cities to boost support for the party, which has become a growing force in NZ politics over the past year. They were invited by branches of the party formed by Maori migrants in
@intro2 = Peter Boyle is a member of the national executives of both the Democratic Socialist Perspective and the Socialist Alliance. What has the Socialist Alliance achieved in its four years of existence? The Socialist Alliance is probably the
On May 30, the revolutionary socialist party Lalit nominated 32 candidates across all 20 constituencies for the upcoming general election. Opposing the constitutional requirement that for their nomination to be accepted, each candidate must list
Sarah Stephen When right-wing Murdoch columnist Andrew Bolt writes an open letter to PM John Howard calling for the release of children from detention, you can be sure that conservative elites are sniffing the popular mood in Australia and are
MELBOURNE — On May 30, 30 people attended a meeting in Campbellfield, a northern suburb of Melbourne, to launch a local group to campaign against the federal government's attacks on workers' rights and welfare. Dave Kerin, convenor of the Union
The Coalition's industrial relations "reform" package is aimed at gutting the Australian union movement. In a round-table discussion in the June issue of Seeing Red, three militant unionists — Joan Doyle (Victorian secretary of the Communications,
On June 1, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported that a high-level South Africa defence ministry delegation was due to visit soon. The newspaper explained that the delegation, which would include arms manufacturers, would meet with the director-general
PM John Howard is moving his war on workers and the poor into top gear. The Coalition's plans to push through pernicious legislation when it takes control of the Senate in July are clear. Howard is drawing a line in the sand, and so must we. Green
Leslie Feinberg, New York The Pentagon war to annex Iraq as a profitable region of US capital's empire is still raging, long after the fragile pretexts for invasion have torn like tissue. The sheer brutality and colonial-style character of the
MELBOURNE — The federal government's terrorism charges against Jack Thomas are aimed at making him a "scapegoat to cover up their own evil deeds", Tim Anderson told a public meeting on June 2. Anderson, who spent eight years in prison, wrongly
Matthew Dimmock A group of Burmese villagers have finally gained justice for the suffering inflicted upon them by the Burmese military regime. On March 21, oil giant Unocal announced that a settlement had been reached in an eight-year-long legal
Ten years after he first applied, Kassab Al-Rashid, a prominent member of Committee for Defence of Legitimate Rights, a pro-democracy body suppressed by the Saudi monarchy, is still waiting for a decision on his initial application for asylum in