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Socialist Alliance campaign launched in Brisbane

BY JIM MCILROY BRISBANE — "No to war! No to racism! Tax the rich!" were the main themes of the October 24 campaign launch of the Queensland Socialist Alliance team, attended by around 90 supporters. Karen Fletcher, one of the two Socialist

PALESTINE: Assassination reveals intifada's dilemma

BY AHMAD NIMER RAMALLAH, Palestine — The October 17 assassination of tourism minister Rehevem Ze'evi, a hated leader of Israel's racist right, was greeted with huge public approval from the Palestinian street, but has since then provided a

Loose cannons

Majorities are another question Fighting terrorism "must never be an excuse to persecute minorities". — US President George "The Crusader" Bush. Foot 'n mouth disease is enough "I do not have anthrax." — George the Crusader again.

Left loses at Griffith University

BY SIMON BUTLER BRISBANE — The left-wing Activist Left ticket failed to win any major office-bearer positions in the October 8-12 Griffith University Student Association election. The left lost despite the fact that the right wing ALP-Liberal

ASIA PACIFIC: Lame duck APEC flounders in troubled waters

BY EVA CHENG If US President George Bush hadn't dominated this year's October 17-21 summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) in Shanghai, China, with his "anti-terrorist" war drive, the peak regional body of 21 economies would have

IRAQ: Bugging Saddam Hussein

BY NORM DIXON The crude efforts by a faction of the US government to link anthrax-infected letters to the Saddam Hussein regime — without a shred of evidence — are an attempt to win greater public support for an extension of Washington's "war

Looking out: For each other's sake

For each other's sake "In my opinion, the young generation of whites, blacks, browns, whatever else there is: you're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution, a time when there's got to be a change. People in power have misused it, and

Beazley's non-solution to refugee crisis

BY SARAH STEPHEN Federal Labor leader Kim Beazley has made much of the fact that Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri has so far refused to discuss the issue of asylum seekers with the Howard government. During the Tampa incident, Megawati

The GST should be abolished, not modified

BY KAREN FLETCHER On October 19, the ALP announced that, if elected, it will leave the Goods and Services Tax almost entirely intact — just another reminder that the Labor Party is interested only in the needs of the corporate rich, not the rest

Curtin students and staff oppose war

BY GRANT COLEMAN PERTH — Determined to take action against the US attacks on Afghanistan, 55 students and staff formed an anti-war alliance at an October 24 forum on Curtin University. Addressing the meeting, Gavin Mooney, a health sciences

Building workers to defy Royal Commission

BY CHRIS SLEE MELBOURNE — In a combined mass meeting on October 24, 10,000 construction unionists have decided not to cooperate with the royal commission into the industry set up by the federal government and have backed a united industrial

Left candidates debate

BY VIRGINIA BROWN PERTH — The variety of backgrounds of the 30 activists who gathered for Socialist Alliance's first "politics in the pub" forum on October 19 — refugee rights and anti-war campaigners, candidates from different left-wing