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Nationalise Ansett

BY ALISON DELLIT The thing about capitalist competition is that it tends to negate itself. Back in the 1980s, when the Hawke Labor government began de-regulating commercial aviation, we were promised great benefits from increased competition. When

Socialists Challenge ALP at Tas Uni

BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — ALP member Ted Alexander won the 2001 Tasmania University Union presidential election by a landslide, capturing 59% of the vote. Promising to provide more free beer and improved services Alexander defeated Greens

Batman off and running

BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance campaign for the federal seat of Batman kicked off on September 8 with a demonstration demanding that the federal government accept the Tampa refugees. The demonstration, held at the Preston

Write on: Letters to the editor

Globalisation Prime Minister John Howard's actions during his visit to Japan remind us yet again why the economic globalisation which underpins current political decision-making is neither in the best interests of the people nor economically

Socialists intimidated for speaking against war

BY LUKE FORMIATTI & SIMON BUTLER BRISBANE — The Labor-controlled University of Queensland Student Union has taken drastic action to prevent students from organising against the US war drive. After the University of Queensland Socialist Worker

ISRAEL: 'Hell no, we won't go'

BY JONATHAN GADIR Cracks are emerging in Israel's social consensus about conflict with the Palestinians, as 62 high school students publicly declared their intention to refuse military service. The declaration came in an open letter to Israel's

CUBA: Castro condemns attacks on US

BY SEAN HEALY Cuban President Fidel Castro has condemned the terrorist attacks on Washington, DC, and New York, but has warned that "there are possibly dangerous days ahead for the world" unless the government of George W Bush realises that "None

The other evolutionist

Alfred Russel Wallace: A LifeBy Peter RabyChatto & Windus, 2001340 pages, $75 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON In an ironic illustration of the concept of "survival of the fittest", Charles Darwin's name has successfully survived as the originator of

Asylum seekers become public enemy No. 1

BY SARAH STEPHEN Boats carrying "illegal immigrants" to Australia could be "a pipeline for terrorists", defence minister Peter Reith told radio 3AW on September 13, in an opportunist attempt to make domestic political mileage out of the September

CUBA: World without hunger possible

BY RAISA PAGES HAVANA — A new world, without hunger and with justice, is possible Cuban President Fidel Castro affirmed at the closing ceremony of the first World Forum on Food Sovereignty, held September 3-7 with the participation of 300

FIJI: Flawed election formalises coup

BY NORM DIXON The May 2000 armed coup that overthrew the democratically elected Fiji Labour Party government has been formalised and legitimised. With the swearing in of a coalition government dominated by the two key Melanesian-Fijian chauvinist

Resistance in action

ANU union elections @box text intr = CANBERRA — The September 3-6 Students Association elections at the Australian National University were won by the ticket associated with the incumbent officials. The left-Labor controlled Education Action