BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
The December 2000 National Union of Students (NUS) conference held at Ballarat endorsed a motion to support the upcoming May 1 blockades of stock exchanges being built by M1 alliances around the country. The conference also voted
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On January 15 the 24th session of the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women began the first of its twice-yearly sessions in UN headquarters in New York — for the next few weeks it will receive and consider
BY DAVID BACON
BERKELEY — California's experiment with deregulating electricity is on its last legs. "Deregulation is dead", declared Public Utilities Commissioner Carl Wood. And from the governor to the PUC to the legislature, almost everyone
BY FAROOQ TARIQ
In a dramatic political move, the ruling military government has allowed ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif to leave Pakistan for Saudi Arabia with 19 family members. Sharif had been sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for trying to
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Two bills, passed into law at the end of 2000, reveal just how thoroughly former militant unionist Premier Jim Bacon has been tamed by business. The workers' compensation act and the industrial relations act have both
You would think that discussions in the Australian capitalist press about politics in the coming year would be exhibiting some excitement.
After all, there is going to be a federal election and several state elections. Most bourgeois economists
BY FAROOQ SULEHRIA
In its first major electoral success, the Labour Party Pakistan has bagged 12 local council seats in the Sindhi town of Larkana, home town and power base of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. One party candidate also won in
BY MARGARET ALLUM
On January 12, a delegation of 50 US activists and scientists, led by US former attorney general Ramsey Clark, boarded a flight to Bagdad. The plane also carried US$1.5 million worth of medical aid and school supplies. The
BY MEENA NANJI
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — I am buzzing through the streets in an auto rickshaw with a woman whose real name I do not know. She has no fixed address and cannot tell me where we are going. The woman accompanying me was a member of RAWA,
On why so many people attempt to move to Australia: "For some it might be the excitement and challenge of testing their resourcefulness" — National Press Club speech, March 3, 1998.
On torture: Ruddock rejected Amnesty International's demand that
Voices of the ValleyVarious artists, produced by Geoff FrancisAvailable from Hobart Resistance Bookshop, the Wilderness Society Shop or order from <glazfolk@trump.net.au>.
REVIEW BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
The Voices of the Valley CD —
BY SUE BOLAND
Capital isn't the only thing globalising. The revolutionary left is also, on the basic premise that if capitalist ruling classes play off working people in one country against working people in another, then the solution is
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