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Axe the GST! The Socialist Alliance's June 30 anti-GST pickets received saturation media coverage. The ABC, SBS and three commercial TV channels all highlighting the only nationwide protests against the hated tax. Our pickets explained the real
Every Socialist Alliance supporter can help the Aston by-election campaign: If you live in Victoria, you can hand out how-to-vote cards and then join us at our election night party! To volunteer for July 14, ring (03) 9386 4815, 9639 8622, 9388
BY DAVE MURPHY & RUTH RATCLIFFE DARWIN — Police will have the power to stop any behaviour they interpret as "anti-social", under new laws introduced into the Northern Territory parliament on June 7. The legislation will also widen police powers
"Best wishes to the Socialist Alliance and your campaign. So serious is the domination of the transnational corporations and economic rationalist ideology, all socialists and environmentalists must fight harder to link economics and ecological
BY CHRIS SLEE & GRAHAM MATTHEWS MELBOURNE — On June 30 Socialist Alliance activists took their campaign in the federal electorate of Aston to the streets to protest the first anniversary of the GST. The Aston by-election, to be held on July 14,
BY DAN CONNELL Secretary of State Colin Powell's recent four-country tour of Africa produced a flurry of press coverage on renewed US interest in ending the 18-year Sudan civil war. Despite US President George W. Bush's nomination of a special
BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — Reinforcing long-held suspicions about scams in the Howard government's Job Network, one of the largest private employment organisations in the network, Leonie Green and Associates, has been ordered to repay $70,000 it
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
BY VANYA TANAJA LIQUICA, East Timor — Amidst the rubble of government offices which the jungle is starting to reclaim stands a flagpole flying, not the Indonesian red and white, but the red flag, the flag of the Socialist Party of Timor. This
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON @detail = Lenin: A BiographyBy Robert ServicePapermac, 2001561 pp, $33 (pb) Vladimir Lenin has too often been the much-abused meat in the biographical sandwich, mangled and distorted between the turgid adulation of
COMMENT BY SARAH STEPHEN Aboriginal communities are populated by drunken, violent criminals, are racked by internal squabbling and lack any credible leadership — if you believe corporate media reporting of indigenous domestic violence.
REVIEW BY MARINA CARMAN The politics of truth and reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the post-Apartheid stateBy Richard A. WilsonCambridge University Press 2001271 pages $39.95 Finally, the story behind the "miracle" transition in