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BY PETER BOYLE The Socialist Alliance is a multi-tendency socialist party which welcomes and protects the right to campaign for a diversity of political positions within the framework of its broad socialist objectives. The second national
BY SIMON TAYLER In late March, Books Not Bombs national coordinator Kylie Moon met with NSW police officers to organise a march permit for an anti-war protest in Sydney, due to be held on April 2. Not only did the police refuse the permit to march,
When Laci Peterson's mutilated body washed up on a California shore on April 13, Americans were shocked and appalled. Cries for justice were greeted with the swift arrest of her husband Scott, who was charged with her murder — and with the "murder"
BY GRANT COLEMAN In his May 13 budget speech, treasurer Peter Costello announced a 10-year package of reforms to Australia's higher education system, Our Universities: Backing Australia's Future. This package, the end result of the 12-month Higher
This garden has been in a drought for a long time,Once you could take hope from this garden,But for a long time you stole it,Now it is dry,No-one is thinking about the dying flowers,No-one is thinking about why children panic in their sleep at
BY MARGARITA WINDISCH MELBOURNE — More than 300 people packed the Brunswick Town Hall for Vic Little's memorial service on May 20. Born in Mildura in 1914, the son of a poor mining family, Vic knew from an early age on what "struggling" meant.
BY RAUL BASSI SYDNEY — On May 18, when activists from the Bankstown branch of the Socialist Alliance went to the office at the top of the arcade, they found the place had been sealed off by the police. After some enquiring, they learnt what had
BY ALICIA JRAPKO More than 10,000 piqueteros (unemployed workers) marched in Buenos Aires on May 14, in a massive show of support for the workers who had occupied the Brukman textile plant. The occupiers were violently evicted by police on April
BY PATRICK BOND HAVANA — Visitors experiencing Cuba for the first time cannot help but remark upon how the economic and political pressures being imposed on the country seem untenable. What would be possible in a just world, given Cuban society's
BY MARISOL SALINAS MELBOURNE — Community radio station 3CR is holding its annual radiothon from June 2 to June 15. This year's theme is "3CR — the voice of dissent, a voice for peace" and the station is hoping to raise $130,000. 3CR has
BY GRAHAM WILLIAMS Still in the early stages of their pattern bargaining campaign, Victorian metal workers have already made major advances towards winning a 36-hour work week. Around 100 companies have now signed the Australian Manufacturing
By JAMES BALOWSKI JAKARTA — Following the breakdown of last-ditch talks in Tokyo between the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), Jakarta on May 19 launched a "security restoration operation" in Aceh — an all-out military