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
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BY MATT EGAN
LISMORE â 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
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
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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 —
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Vodaphone workers face sackings
MELBOURNE — Forty workers for telecommunications company Vodaphone turned up to what they thought would be an ordinary day of training on March 15, only to find themselves being marched out of the gates flanked by
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