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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 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
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.
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SYDNEY — Supporters of Âé¶¹´«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'
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
When the Socialist Alliance was founded in February 2001, Âé¶¹´«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 —
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
[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,
BY FIDEL CASTRO [The following is part of the speech delivered by Cuba's President Fidel Castro Ruz to a rally of 1 million people in Havana's Jose Marti Revolution Square on May 1, 2003.] Our heroic people have struggled for 44 years from this