BY ANNA CHEN
At 11am on May 18, as the clouds parted and the sun emerged (briefly), the Socialist Alliance launched its general election manifesto and unveiled its campaign slogan — People Before Profit — in front of Millbank Tower, Labour
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BY GILAND OMRI
An outsider may observe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and see Israel as an oppressive military occupier — confiscating land, bulldozing houses, imprisoning thousands of poverty-stricken people in their homes through curfews, and
Elect the Ambassador!By Duncan KerrPublished by the Pluto Press Australia 2000$32.95
REVIEW BY GEOFF FRANCIS
One side-effect of the Keating government's ignominious electoral defeat in March 1996 was that a large number of ALP politicians
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Shipbuilder Incat has been forced by the Industrial Relations Commission to back off from attempts to impose on its workers the "choice" of a four-day week or 200 redundancies.
Incat has a legally binding agreement,
BY MATT EGAN
LISMORE — Nearly 40 people crammed into a caf‚ on May 17 to hear about the newly-formed Socialist Alliance and help launch a local SA group.
Edda Lampis, of the International Socialist Organisation, outlined the crisis of
BY DAVID BACON
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA — "For immigrants to build a better future, they need to build a union", says Eliseo Medina, a Mexican immigrant from Zacatecas who became a leading organiser for the United Farm Workers, and now serves as
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — Five local campaign groups of the newly formed Socialist Alliance held inaugural meetings across Sydney on May 15 and 16. The meetings — held in Sydney city (Ultimo), Burwood, Parramatta, Marrickville and Chatswood —
BY ALISON DELLIT
The United States government suffered a humiliating defeat on May 4 when it was voted off the United Nations Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission's inception.
It's not as if Washington didn't do its
Colombia — Peace at what prices?Written & directed by Anne O'CaseyRunning time 40 minutes, $20Available from CISLAC (PO Box A431 Sydney South NSW 2000; web site: <http://www.cislac.org.au>)
REVIEW BY LYNDA HANSEN
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BY LYNDA HANSEN
BRISBANE — The International Women's Day Collective launched its abortion law repeal petition campaign at the May 7 Labour Day festivities in Musgrave Park.
The petition demands repeal of the Queensland criminal code Â鶹´«Ã½
BY EVA CHENG
What does it say about the nature of the current world order when, despite expanded food production capacity and sophisticated life-saving technologies, more than 30,000 children under five still die each day in Third World countries
On May 17 a South Carolina court sentenced a 24-year-old woman to 12 years in prison for homicide. The victim was her fetus; the method of the "murder" was cocaine use.
Eight months pregnant when she miscarried, Regina McKnight is homeless, poor,
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