BY DERMOTT RYDER
Peter Costello, Liberal leadership hopeful and feral federal treasurer, in his budget has perpetrated the most savage attacks on the living conditions, medical care and welfare of workers, unemployed, disabled, the sick and elderly
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BY EVA CHENG
For more than five decades, Washington has justified its strong military presence in north-east Asia in the name of countering "communism". Even though pro-capitalist governments now rule Russia and China, Washington has shown no
Expert opinion I
"If you had hired actors you could not have gotten better coverage" — Kenneth Bacon, a former Pentagon spokesperson, commenting on the corporate media's coverage of the US invasion of Iraq.
Expert opinion II
"Everyone knows
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — Medical care is "a right not a privilege", declared Victorian Trades Hall Council secretary Leigh Hubbard on May 14. Hubbard was launching a campaign to defend and extend Medicare.
Hubbard said people need to "get out
BY DOUG LORIMER
Despite their joining the US campaign claiming that Pyongyang is seeking to develop nuclear weapons, both the Japanese and South Korean governments continue to fund the construction of a nuclear power plant in North Korea.
SYDNEY — Supporters of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly packed into the Fairfield Community Centre on May 17, to enjoy a night of music, good food and fabulous company while raising much needed funds for the paper.
Activists from anti-war, feminist, refugees'
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BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — Treasurer Peter Costello's 2003 budget was giving a caning at a "People's reply to the budget" on May 16. At the meeting, organised by the Socialist Alliance, a range of speakers described the greater disadvantage and
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — On May 16, 350 people attended a forum organised by the Peace Coalition in the Stanley Burbury Theatre at Tasmania University on the topic "Casualties of War". Speakers on the forum's panel were left-wing writer Tim
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The scramble for a quick buck by US corporations in the aftermath of Washington's invasion of Iraq came as no surprise to all but the most naive — US policy in the Middle East has always been guided by seizing and controlling the
When the Socialist Alliance was founded in February 2001, Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly supported the new political organisation. The social problems created by the capitalist profit system — war, unemployment, poverty, racism, the oppression of women, etc —
[In the March NSW election, the Greens almost tripled their vote, in an indication of significant national growth for that party. Local activist SYLVIA HALE joined Lee Rhiannon and Ian Cohen as an MLC. This Hale's first speech to the NSW parliament,
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