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Refugees: 'Human rights cannot be sedated'

BY ANDY GIANNIOTIS SYDNEY — With the demise of the Refugee Action Collective, members of the International Federation of Iraqi and Iranian Refugees (IFIR), the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) and independent anti-racist activists have

... and ain't i a woman?: RU486

RU486 Over the last decade the ability of women to access abortion services in Australia has become increasingly difficult due to government funding cutbacks and protests by the religious right outside abortion clinics. In this context the

IRAQ: John Pilger — The great cover-up

BY JOHN PILGER On the eve of an election campaign, the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair is attempting, with mounting desperation, to suppress a scandal potentially greater than the arms-to-Iraq cover-up. This is the deaths of

M1 to 'reclaim a part of Melbourne'

BY SARAH PEART MELBOURNE — "The task facing us is to build a worthy sequel to S11 on May 1 that will strengthen and advance the movement, organisationally and ideologically", M1 Alliance spokesperson and Democratic Socialist Party activist Jackie

'Everybody should be in a revolutionary party'

BY ALISON DELLIT Following her participation in the September 26 protests in Prague against the meetings of International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Felicity Martin decided upon her return to Australia she would join the Democratic Socialist

EAST TIMOR: Foreign policy heads west

BY JON LAND Imagine someone referring to prime minister John Howard and his foreign minister, Alexander Downer, as "more generous than Mother Theresa". You wouldn't be surprised if it came from a Coalition backbencher — but these are the precise

Illawarra TAFE staff draw the line

BY CHRISTOPHER PERKINS WOLLONGONG — Teachers and library staff at TAFE's Illawarra Institute of Technology are taking action against attacks which have flowed from repeated budget cuts by the NSW Labor government. TAFE library staff, members of

INDONESIA: Right moves against Wahid

BY MAX LANE In an escalation of tensions between President Abdurrahman Wahid and right-wing forces in the country's parliament, a full session of the DPR, the Indonesian house of representatives, voted almost unanimously on February 2 to accept a

Networker: Who knows internet business?

Who knows internet business? The purpose of business is profits. A few years ago that would have been a controversial statement, drawing replies of “companies invest for the national good” or something similar. Today every government and

CUBA: 'We will conquer injustice'

BY JONATHAN STRAUSS PORTO ALEGRE — Cuban National Assembly president Ricardo Alarcon reaffirmed the internationalist and socialist perspective of the Cuban Revolution in a speech from the chair of a thematic panel at the World Social Forum

Resistance Centre to open in Geelong

BY SUE BULL GEELONG — Following the demise of Wainwright's Tree in September 1999, this city has desperately needed a progressive bookshop and activist centre. The Democratic Socialist Party, Resistance and Green Left Weekly have announced that

No 'business as usual' at ASX

BY KAREN FLETCHER BRISBANE — The Brisbane M1 Alliance has pledged to build a peaceful mass blockade of the Brisbane office of the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) on May 1 and bring the business of neo-liberal globalisation to a standstill for a