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LEBANON: One year after the Israeli withdrawal

BY ASAD ABUKHALIL Quiet has apparently returned to the Lebanese-Israeli border after violent incidents in mid-May marked the first anniversary of Israel's forced withdrawal from southern Lebanon. Israeli forces shot two Lebanese men who were

'The time is right to make a move'

Socialist Alliance has now been launched in all capital cities, and a round of regional launches began on June 15 when 40 people attended the launch of the Newcastle Socialist Alliance. The audience was a cross-section of the sort of people who are

NSW workers comp: the campaign that wasn't

BY LISA MACDONALD SYDNEY — "We did not cave in or sell out. I want to make it clear that we remain opposed to the [workers' compensation] bill", NSW Labor Council secretary-elect John Robertson told the more than 200,000 workers who stopped work

Axe the GST: tax the rich!

By Rebecca Lemay The GST has got to go! It's not just a tax, but part of a system of taxation, which in the words of Business Review Weekly "is about shifting the burden of taxation from capital to labour." The GST widens the gap between rich and

Get on board the global justice express

"I think the economic logic of dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we have to face up to that." World Bank vice-president Lawrence Summers, December 1991. That quote is scary not only for what it says but for

Two new branches for Socialist Alliance

BY ROB MILLER MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance continues to expand with a new branch set up on June 28 in the federal electorate of Melbourne. Attended by 50 people, the Melbourne meeting brought together activists from a wide variety of

Write on: Letters to the editor

Factually correct Your article by Sean Healy (GLW #453) contains a large number of factually incorrect statements. Let me point out a few as pointed out by the eyewitnesses quoted in Aftonbladet and the Gotenborg Posten, and also fellow residents

Election boosts British socialists

By Ian Rintoul "A great start!" That's how the convenors of the English Socialist Alliance describe the result of the June general election, the first general election campaign of the Socialist Alliance. The Socialist Alliance and Scottish

CHOGM Action Network launched, plans march

BY TIM STEWART BRISBANE — Members of 20 organisations came together on June 26 to plan protests outside the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane. The meeting unanimously decided that a march "to the gates of CHOGM" on the

Lismore Socialist Alliance hits the streets for refugee rights

LISMORE — Chanting "no-one is illegal, free the refugees!" 20 Socialist Alliance members and supporters held a speakout on June 26 to highlight the federal Coalition government's (and ALP opposition's) policy of locking up refugees in remote

Staff ready for strike action

BY SHUA GARFIELD HOBART — Teaching staff at the University of Tasmania have voted to hold a 24-hour strike on July 18 after negotiations between the National Tertiary Education Union and university administration on a new enterprise agreement

Unionist returns to work, triumphant

BY SANDY WHELAN ADELAIDE — "It's probably the first time I've ever really enjoyed a whole day at work", postal worker John McGill said of his first day back at Adelaide Mail Centre after winning an appeal against unfair dismissal on June 25.