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BRISBANE — Latin American entertainers came out on February 3 to support the survivors of the January 13 El Salvador earthquake. The benefit was organised by Australia Aid for El Salvador and supported by Committee in Solidarity with
BY NORM DIXON The Scottish Socialist Party's member in the Scottish parliament, Tommy Sheridan, was among the more than 370 anti-nuclear weapons protesters arrested at the Faslane navy base near Glasgow on February 12. Scottish Labour MP George
BY MARG PERROTT WOLLONGONG — Peter Wilson, a local organiser for on the NSW Teacher's Federation, was elected unopposed as president of the South Coast Labor Council. Wilson replaced Mike Dwyer, who was forced to resign due to ill health. The
But it does a good imitation "... the US cannot condemn corruption abroad while allowing its own banks to make a fortune off it." — A New York Times editorial, noting that most corrupt government leaders launder their loot through US banks.
BY KATELYN MOUNTFORD BRISBANE — Resistance's mailbox here held a nasty surprise recently: a letter from Edmund McMahon, Pauline Hanson's One Nation candidate in the seat of Mt Gravatt in the February 17 state election. McMahon acknowledged that
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS CANBERRA — Ten thousand people marched to save the ABC on February 11, in an enormous show of the support the national broadcaster has among this city's population. From the point when Canberrans began gathering at
BY NORM DIXON Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) have escalated the violent harassment and repression of their critics. Mugabe faces a presidential poll in 2002. He will be
BY MARG PERROTT WOLLONGONG — Principals, teachers and local residents met at Woonona High School on February 13 to organise the a campaign to defend public education funding in the federal seat of Cunningham. Following the announcement of the
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9-11pm. Ph 9565 5522. Access News — Melbourne community TV,
Corporations “cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed [nor] excommunicate[d], for they have no souls.” — Sir Edward Coke, 1552-1634. The late English jurist's words are appropriate here. I do not know of many corporations demonstrating
BY PETER BOYLE SYDNEY — Seven radical left organisations — the Democratic Socialist Party, the International Socialist Organisation, the Freedom Socialist Party, the Workers League, the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq (Australian branch),
REVIEW BY MARCEL CAMERON Cuba as Alternative: An Introduction to Cuba's Socialist RevolutionBy Neville Spencer et. al.Resistance Books 2000116pp, $11.95 (pb)Order at <http://www.dsp.org.au/rb/rb.htm> When the Soviet Union collapsed in