A Pacific islands network which monitors globalisation in the Pacific
is calling on Pacific island leaders to think before they ratify trade
agreements and those who have ratified to withdraw from them.
Pacific Network for Globalisation
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BY ROBYN MARSHALL
BRISBANE — In the Brisbane City Gallery of the Town Hall is a remarkable
collection of photographs, selected by radical Australian journalist John
Pilger. The photographs that are included in Reporting the World
are a
BY SUZIE AMBROSE
DARWIN — The prediction of the March 7 NT News editorial — "No votes for ratbags" — was disproved in the March 16 elections for Lord Mayor of Darwin. Socialist Alliance candidate Ruth Ratcliffe received 1057 votes after
BY NORM DIXON
In the aftermath of the rigged March 9-10 presidential election, Zimbabwe's trade unions and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have failed to lead serious mass mobilisations to block the return of the authoritarian
BY STEVE DAY
ADELAIDE — On March 8, San Francisco-based group Spearhead treated punters to a very special performance that will stick in the minds of many for a while to come. The charismatic Michael Franti hosted an evening of hip hop, funk,
Museworthy: The Fragment Called Wisdom
There is a cracked stoneIt is wiseThere is a broken stickIt is wiseThere is water, forever formless always formedIt is wiseIt is unwiseto shake the whole from its sack of piecesThe head looks around at its
BY NICK SOUDAKOFF
The US government has requested an additional 300 troops be allowed to perform "civic duties" on the Philippines island of Basilian as part of the Balikatan 02-1 war games nominally aimed at destroying the Abu Sayyaf kidnap group.
[The following is an excerpt from a statement issued by the Socialist
Alliance in Melbourne on March 20.]
Dean Mighell is 100% correct to say that the ALP has turned its back
on the working class.
One of the first acts of the Bracks
BY PETER BOYLE
SYDNEY — A week out from the start of the Second Asia-Pacific International Solidarity Conference, the phones were running hot in the Sydney office used by the young voluntary conference organising team headed by Iggy Kim. There
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — A March 19 Socialist Alliance application to be registered as a political party in Tasmania has been accepted by the Tasmanian Electoral Office (TEO). Notifications were printed in Tasmania's three daily papers on
BY CHRIS LATHAM
PERTH — The prospects for peace and a united Ireland had been enhanced by the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, Mitchell McLaughlin, national chairperson of the Irish republican party Sinn Fein, told a February 28 public meeting.
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The United Nations-sponsored International Conference on Financing for Development — held in Monterrey, Mexico, on March 18-22 — produced a great deal of hot air, but little for the world's 1.2 billion people who live on less
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