At last, the 1901 show
Within the four walls of Australia we're working up a bit of a hoot. The centenary of federation is here — almost! Girt by sea, festooned with waratah and greased up with eucky oil, all the common people of Australia
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Call for international protests against sanctions on Iraq
The following statement was issued by Jalal Mohammed from the Worker Communist Party of Iraq (email <shemal1@ihug.com.au> or <zarya@ihug.com.au>) and John Percy, national
Human rights in China have deteriorated sharply, according to Amnesty International, which described Beijing's crackdown on peaceful dissent in 1999 as "the most serious and wide-ranging" in the last 10 years. "Thousands of people were arbitrarily
Socialist solutions to the country crisis
BY SUE BOLAND
It is only three weeks since dairy deregulation in New South Wales and already there are casualties: their incomes slashed almost in half as a result of the deregulation on July 1, 50 dairy
While capitalist economists and mainstream press finance writers may have fervently embraced "free trade" as a cure for all ills, the multinational corporations and Western governments are far more pragmatic and cunning: they write the rules of
Centrelink introduces 'No sign-no start'
BY TIMOTHY STARR
BRISBANE — In a mock presentation about a new social security regulation, a Centrelink call centre worker took three props to her weekly team meeting: a dictionary, a carrot and a stick.
Emission excuses compound embarrassment
BY SEAN HEALY
Friends of the Earth (FoE) Australia has described as "embarrassing" new figures which show a massive blowout in Australia's greenhouse gas emissions, to 16.9% above 1990 levels. The group has
Aboriginal rally condemns government 'war'
BY RUSSELL PICKERING
SYDNEY — The federal government's policy towards the Aboriginal people would turn the Sydney Olympics into "the games of shame, not the games of peace", Aboriginal Tent Embassy
BY JUSTIN RANDELL
BRISBANE — Activists here have described as a big step forward the July 7 merger of local anti-corporate groups into an S11 Alliance to plan and build local participation in protests against the World Economic Forum meeting in
INDIA: Bihar assembly besieged
Responding to a call by the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (Liberation), thousands of protesters staged a militant gherao (siege) of the assembly building in the poor, northern state of Bihar on July 11.
Shed a tear for the marketeers of the last decade: technology had finally provided the ability to bombard a billion people with the same advertising message, but in most cases no one wanted to listen. Marketing is that area of modern commerce where
Abortion doctors reinstated
BY MARY MERKENICH
MELBOURNE — The Royal Women's Hospital announced on July 10 that it would reinstate three medical workers suspended for performing a late-term abortion on a 40-year-old woman who discovered that her
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