BY BARRY SHEPPARD
SAN FRANCISCO — The October 7 recall of Governor Gray Davis and the election of Hollywood movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger to replace him was a massive repudiation of the pro-big business policies of Davis' Democratic Party.
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BY JANET BURSTALL
The Socialist Alliance in NSW will soon have its first chance to campaign in local government elections, which have been called for March 27. What are the issues and challenges?
Inequality in Australia corresponds very closely
On October 5, PM John Howard increased his attacks on mothers who work full-time, with the announcement of the new "maternity allowance": a flat payment, probably of $5000, paid to all women who give birth. This is superior, Howard argued, to
BY ROHAN PEARCE
Considerable controversy exists on Wall Street over the awarding of contracts to US corporations by the Bush regime to "rebuild" Iraq. However, the controversy hasn't been that profit-hungry corporate vultures are seeking to make a
BY DALE MILLS
On September 4, US President George Bush signed into law the Prison Rape Elimination Act. While the law does little more than provide funding for research and some counselling, it is at least a belated recognition that the massive US
BY ROHAN PEARCE
On September 21, Kamel al Gailani, the Iraqi "minister of finance" and a member of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council (IGC), announced at a meeting of the Institute of International Finance in Dubai a plan which he claimed
BY MATTHEW DIMMOCK
BANGKOK — Authorities are striving to make this city look its best for the October 20-21 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. The race is on to "sanitise" Bangkok's streets, or at least the ones that foreign
Thousands turned out across the United States on September 27 for a day of protest against the US occupation of Iraq and Israel's oppression of the Palestinians. The demonstrations were called by the International Act Now to Stop War and End Racism
[Radical "poet lorikeet" Denis Kevans, who joined the LBJ protests in Sydney and in Canberra, sent the following poem which he presented to "concerts, smoke-ohs and rallies". It was published and set to music in February 1962 when the anti-Vietnam
BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY
MOSCOW — There has been heated discussion in the camp of the Russian opposition this northern Spring. The crisis of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) led to the emergence of "renovating" tendencies in its
BY STEVE ELLIOT DORE
SYDNEY — NSW Labor Premier Bob Carr told the annual NSW Labor Party conference on October 5 that the NSW government does not plan to renew the leases for Patrick Stevedores' Darling Harbour and P&O's White Bay and Glebe
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