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Basics Card system fails

In an example of the serious disadvantage caused by income quarantining, a technical fault in Centrelink聮s Basics Card system on January 16 rendered the cards useless for more than 12 hours.

Zimbabwe: Criminal health policies

Compelling evidence of the Zimbabwe government聮s criminality in the area of health and human rights was released in Johannesburg on January 14 by Physicians for Human Rights in its report, Health in Ruins: A Man-Made Disaster in Zimbabwe.

Eco-socialist declaration, call for global network

According to the signatories of the Belem Ecosocialist Declaration, 鈥渉umanity today faces a stark choice: ecosocialism or barbarism鈥.

The meaning of Obama

聯American Revolution: The Fall of Wall Street and the Rise of Barack Obama聰
By Kate Jennings
Quarterly Essay 32
Black Inc, 2008
132 pages, $15.95

Memoir of a soldier of conscience

Road from ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia
By Camilo Mejia
The New Press, 2007
312 pages, $45 (hb)

What does Obama mean for the world?

More than one million people gathered in bitter cold in Washington DC to witness the historical inauguration of an African American as president.

United States: People-driven change

The article below is abridged from a January 21 US Socialist Worker editorial, .

Why Israel won't survive

Once again, Israel demonstrated that it possesses the power and the lack of moral restraint necessary to commit atrocities against a population of destitute refugees it has caged and starved.

El Salvador: Leftists dominate parliament after vote

The below article is abridged from a January 19 statement from the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, visit .

Hamas and Palestine's right to exist

If Western politicians and media are to be believed, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) is an anti-Semitic, religious fundamentalist, terrorist outfit that forms part of an al-Qaeda (or, alternatively, Iranian) led movement to violently impose Islamic law on the world, and dedicated to the annihilation of Jews.

On the box

The Long March 鈥 Pieces together the Long March of 1934, in which the Chinese Red Army broke out of their base in Jiangxi, southeast China, under attack by the ruling nationalist forces. Besieged by over a million nationalist soldiers, the

Greece: The revolt continues

The demonstrations that rocked Greece at the end of last year resumed on January 9, picking up where they left off before the holidays with a militant march of 20,000 teachers and students in Athens.