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More Laborite drivel on globalisation

Elect the Ambassador!By Duncan KerrPublished by the Pluto Press Australia 2000$32.95 REVIEW BY GEOFF FRANCIS One side-effect of the Keating government's ignominious electoral defeat in March 1996 was that a large number of ALP politicians

Exposing Plan Colombia

Colombia — Peace at what prices?Written & directed by Anne O'CaseyRunning time 40 minutes, $20Available from CISLAC (PO Box A431 Sydney South NSW 2000; web site: <http://www.cislac.org.au>) REVIEW BY LYNDA HANSEN The latest video

Socialist Alliance launched in Lismore

BY MATT EGAN LISMORE — Nearly 40 people crammed into a caf‚ on May 17 to hear about the newly-formed Socialist Alliance and help launch a local SA group. Edda Lampis, of the International Socialist Organisation, outlined the crisis of

Break the chains of eternal debt

BY EVA CHENG What does it say about the nature of the current world order when, despite expanded food production capacity and sophisticated life-saving technologies, more than 30,000 children under five still die each day in Third World countries

Socialist Alliance establishes local campaign groups

BY NICK EVERETT SYDNEY — Five local campaign groups of the newly formed Socialist Alliance held inaugural meetings across Sydney on May 15 and 16. The meetings — held in Sydney city (Ultimo), Burwood, Parramatta, Marrickville and Chatswood —

UNITED NATIONS: US booted off commission

BY ALISON DELLIT The United States government suffered a humiliating defeat on May 4 when it was voted off the United Nations Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission's inception. It's not as if Washington didn't do its

Josh White: The forgotten singer

REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Josh White: Society BluesBy Elijah WaldUniversity of Massachusetts Press, 2000336 pp, $69 (hb) Josh White is the forgotten singer of progressive blues and folk in the United States. Common coin has it that his obscurity is

Pro-choice campaign takes to streets

BY LYNDA HANSEN BRISBANE — The International Women's Day Collective launched its abortion law repeal petition campaign at the May 7 Labour Day festivities in Musgrave Park. The petition demands repeal of the Queensland criminal code sections

Socialist Alliance launched in WA

BY SARAH STEPHEN @box text intr = PERTH — On May 9, 45 people attended a meeting to launch the Socialist Alliance in Western Australia. Roberto Jorquera from the Democratic Socialist Party and Wade McDonald from the International Socialist

Loose cannons

Egalitarian society "The annual Australian rich list was released last week estimating Kerry Packer's wealth at more than $6 billion. This is the equivalent of the wealth of 38,895 average Australians." — Sunday Telegraph, May 20. Toward a

Doctors win pay rise

BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — "If doctors in public hospitals were only concerned about money, they wouldn't be working in the public system" said Dr Kamala Emanuel in defence of the campaign by doctors to win improvements in their conditions of

IMF, World Bank can cancel debt

BY SEAN HEALY Opponents of debt cancellation claim that such a move cannot happen because it would bankrupt the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. While such a result might be good news for the world's poor, such a claim is false.