The following
resolution was unanimously adopted by the 20th Congress of the Democratic
Socialist Party, held in Sydney from December 28, 2002, to January 1, 2003.
This 20th Congress of the Democratic Socialist Party:
1. Reaffirms our
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BY ROHAN PEARCE
A report in the December 26 Washington Post has revealed that US forces are torturing Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners at its Bagram air base in Afghanistan.
According to the report, "Those who refuse to cooperate inside this secret
BY STUART MUNCKTON
Reading the mainstream press over the last month, one could be forgiven for believing that Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has become so unpopular that his government is facing a revolt by the country's workers.
However, at
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
Gay rights activist Rodney Croome believes that the Tasmanian government's proposed changes to relationships laws will give Tasmania one of the best set of lesbian and gay human rights laws in the world. As evidence of this,
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. Includes the Green Left news. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Phone 9565 5522. Visit for
BY MIKE BYRNE
Punk rock legend and lead singer of the Clash, Joe Strummer, died of a heart attack on December 22, aged 50. Born John Graham Mellor in 1952, the son of a British diplomat, Strummer became disillusioned with his middle-class
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — The US and British attack on Iraq has already begun. While the British Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair continues to claim in parliament that "no final decision has been taken", Royal Air Force (RAF) and US fighter bombers
BY ROHAN PEARCE
"Well, the problem with guns that are hidden is that you can't see their smoke", White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer told journalists at a January 9 press briefing. Fleischer was responding to the interim report delivered to the
BY CHRIS LATHAM
FREMANTLE — On January 6, the USS Abraham Lincoln, the world's largest aircraft carrier, returned to Fremantle just two weeks after its last visit. It had been scheduled to return to the US, but was ordered back to Fremantle to
2003 opens to impending war and $3 trillion in tax cuts for the richest
people in the world. We are living in extreme times, terrorised even here
in Australia by a $15 million government advertising campaign for free-floating
anxiety and
US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has issued a report on the controversial use of cluster bombs in the war on Afghanistan. The report, Fatally Flawed: Cluster Bombs and Their Use by the United States in Afghanistan, reveals that the
BY DAVE WRIGHT
BRISBANE Centrelink workers have overwhelmingly rejected management's
new enterprise agreement. More than 70% voted against what was an attack
on Centrelink workers' wages and conditions. The vote was even more emphatic
in
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