The Malaysian Socialist Party (PSM) held its eighth congress in late May. Over the past period, the party has been involved in campaigns against the privatisation of health care, against the goods and services tax and against the fuel price hike,
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Peter Boyle
Commenting on the Australian troop deployment to East Timor on May 31, the Australian's Paul Kelly said, "this intervention is both military and political. Its primary purpose was to respond to East Timor's security crisis ... But this
Norm Dixon
In the early hours of May 5, the most militarily significant Darfur rebel group — a faction of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) led by Minni Minnawi — reluctantly accepted a flawed "peace" agreement with Sudan's authoritarian
Sue Bolton
After much debate within the trade union movement, the ACTU-endorsed June 28 national day of protest against the Howard government's industrial relations laws has finally spread nationwide.
After the success of last year's two national
Alastair Crooke
Almost no-one believes that putting Palestinians on a "diet" will make them more moderate or help to restart a political process with Israel. The diet — a term coined by forumer Israeli PM Ariel Sharon's chief of staff, Dov
Local issues
While GLW does an excellent job concerning issues of war and peace and the Work Choices legislation, there are essential local issues that merit additional attention.
I am trying to obtain a housing commission flat in Canterbury and
The British military announced on May 29 that two of its soldiers had died in a roadside bomb attack in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, bringing the total number of British military fatalities in May to nine. "The deaths are a clear sign that rebel
CANBERRA — On May 25, the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) held a lunchtime protest outside the ACT Legislative Assembly to oppose a planned cut to superannuation contributions for all future ACT government employees.
Labor Chief Minister
Fred Fuentes
Before and on June 1, the day that students around the country protested against Work Choices, the mass media and the NSW education minister, Labor's Carmel Tebbutt, campaigned against high-school students' right to protest, saying
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: The Shocking Inside Story of How America Really Took Over the WorldBy John PerkinsEbury Press, 2006250 pages, $24.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
John Perkins cut a brazen figure at meetings of the international
Barry Weisleder & John Riddell, Toronto
"General jubilation" greeted the Bolivian government's move to take control of the country's hydrocarbon resources on May 1, according to the Cuban daily newspaper Granma. "An impressive multitude [that]
Graham Matthews
The workers' rights lobby group Unite, which formed in Melbourne in 2003 to "name and shame" dodgy bosses in the retail and fast-food industry, relaunched itself as an unregistered union on May 30.
"The fast-food and retail
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