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PORTUGAL: United left surges ahead

BY JONATHAN STRAUSS LISBON — In the last 10 years Portugal's Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc) has increasingly brought together some of the most important forces on the Portuguese radical left, including three groups (one Trotskyist, one formerly

The decline of Maoism in the Philippines

The Philippines Left: Political Crises and Social ChangeBy Ben ReidJCAP, Manila, 2000Order through Resistance bookshops (see page 2) or at <http://www.dsp.org.au/rb/rb.htm> REVIEW BY NICK SOUDAKOFF The history of the revolutionary

Building workers take action

BY TIM GOODEN GEELONG — Victorian building unions, lead by the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union, walked off the job for 24 hours on March 1 to kick off a campaign to win a better long service leave scheme. Only 23% of construction

M1 to target 'corporate scumbags'

BY DANNY FAIRFAX & NICK EVERETT SYDNEY — City workers are being encouraged to nominate their most hated "corporate scumbag" to be visited by a March 17 "Corporate Scumbag Tour", being organised by the M1 Sydney coalition as a prelude to the

slams shut NZ door on Pacific Islanders

Ruddock slams shut NZ door on Pacific Islanders BY ALISON DELLIT Thousands of New Zealand residents, many of them migrants from the Pacific Islands, will be denied residency in Australia under changes to the reciprocal relationship

SCOTLAND: Leaders of SSP break with CWI

Most of the central leaders of the Scottish Socialist Party, including Tommy Sheridan, Alan McCombes, Frances Curran and Murray Smith are members of a revolutionary Marxist organisation, the International Socialist Movement (ISM), formerly Scottish

A new women's prison — no way!

BY TILLEY ELDERFIELD SYDNEY — Expanding on its theme, "Women fighting for global justice", the Sydney West International Women's Day Collective has invited a Kerry Nettle from the Stop the Women's Jail campaign to address the Parramatta IWD

IRC rejects CFMEU Yallourn appeal

BY CHRIS SLEE MELBOURNE — On February 26, the Industrial Relations Commission rejected an appeal by the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union against the termination of its bargaining period with Yallourn Energy. The union had appealed

Mike Dwyer 1949 2001

BY MARG PERROTT WOLLONGONG — Mike Dwyer, past-president of the South Coast Labor Council and respected community activist in the Illawarra region, lost his 15-year battle with cancer on February 25. All those who knew him will be greatly

Notice served on Adelaide stock exchange

BY KATHY NEWNAM & REBECCA MECKELBURG ADELAIDE — Declaring that "M1 will pick up where S11 left off in building the people's movement for global justice", M1 Adelaide served a "Notice of Closure" on the Australian Stock Exchange on March 1. The

Conference to promote 'global action'

BY FEDERICO FUENTES MELBOURNE — The Democratic Socialist Party and Friends of the Earth have initiated a second "Global Action" conference to discuss corporate globalisation and the movement against it as a follow-up to the very successful

M1 Alliance calls for debt cancellation

BY SARAH PEART MELBOURNE — Demands to cancel Third World debt and abolish multilateral institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organisation will feature prominently in M1 Alliance publicity for the May 1 blockade