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
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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
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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
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