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UWS students protest rationalisation

BY PAUL BENEDEK SYDNEY — Students and staff from the Bankstown, Campbelltown and Penrith campuses of the University of Western Sydney rallied outside the vice-chancellor's offices at UWS Penrith on September 11. The action was dubbed UWS11. The

Our world is not for sale

[The following statement is being circulated by the Council of Canadians public interest organisation. To sign on to the statement, visit the web site of the Council of Canadians, <http://www.canadians.org>.] People's movements across the

There's a new sheriff in town

BY GARY MEYERHOFF DARWIN — The Northern Territory Labor Party said very little about mandatory sentencing during its successful August election campaign, and what it did say was highly confused. The only people who seemed to be saying that Labor

We should make the effort to make Socialist Alliance work

BY BILL BRIGGS While we are able to look at the past with the gift of hindsight and can acknowledge the mistakes made in the name of the struggle for socialism in this country and the world, it would be wrong to simply write off the generations of

Nationalise Ansett

BY ALISON DELLIT The thing about capitalist competition is that it tends to negate itself. Back in the 1980s, when the Hawke Labor government began de-regulating commercial aviation, we were promised great benefits from increased competition. When

Socialists Challenge ALP at Tas Uni

BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — ALP member Ted Alexander won the 2001 Tasmania University Union presidential election by a landslide, capturing 59% of the vote. Promising to provide more free beer and improved services Alexander defeated Greens

Batman off and running

BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance campaign for the federal seat of Batman kicked off on September 8 with a demonstration demanding that the federal government accept the Tampa refugees. The demonstration, held at the Preston

Write on: Letters to the editor

Globalisation Prime Minister John Howard's actions during his visit to Japan remind us yet again why the economic globalisation which underpins current political decision-making is neither in the best interests of the people nor economically

Socialists intimidated for speaking against war

BY LUKE FORMIATTI & SIMON BUTLER BRISBANE — The Labor-controlled University of Queensland Student Union has taken drastic action to prevent students from organising against the US war drive. After the University of Queensland Socialist Worker

ISRAEL: 'Hell no, we won't go'

BY JONATHAN GADIR Cracks are emerging in Israel's social consensus about conflict with the Palestinians, as 62 high school students publicly declared their intention to refuse military service. The declaration came in an open letter to Israel's

CUBA: Castro condemns attacks on US

BY SEAN HEALY Cuban President Fidel Castro has condemned the terrorist attacks on Washington, DC, and New York, but has warned that "there are possibly dangerous days ahead for the world" unless the government of George W Bush realises that "None

The other evolutionist

Alfred Russel Wallace: A LifeBy Peter RabyChatto & Windus, 2001340 pages, $75 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON In an ironic illustration of the concept of "survival of the fittest", Charles Darwin's name has successfully survived as the originator of