Unite is holding a day of action on Brunswick St, Fitzroy on Saturday 6th December from 12 noon, meeting outside Black Cat cafe, 252 Brunswick St, Fitzroy and then marching down the street. The Naming and Shaming is set to begin! (more…)

“I am not saying that the dream is over, but I think I dreamed the wrong dream”. Those were the words of former PT (Workers’ Party) federal deputy from Rio de Janeiro, Fernando Gabeira, who has just announced his resignation from the PT in protest against the Lula government’s environmental policy. (more…)

Over the last weeks, a powerful movement of workers, peasants and the indigenous peoples – the poorest people in the poorest country of Latin America – has checked the neo-liberal plans of the Bolivian government and, on 17 October, forced President Gonzalo Sánchez de Losada to resign. (more…)

Michael Moore said “barring success”, Stupid White Men, (reviewed in The Socialist, issue 254), would be his last book. But last year when George W Bush was supposedly so popular, it was the leading non-fiction book bought and read by Americans. So he’s written Dude, Where’s My Country? (more…)

SP report on the Canberra protests over the President Bush visit.
On Wednesday SP members and supporters left Trades Hall. The Victorian Peace Network people left the same night. All during Wednesday SP supporters were on coast-to-coast media not only attacking Bush and Howard for the occupation of Iraq, but highlighting the impending sacrificing of the Pharmacetical Benefit Scheme by Howard as the price for a Free Trade Agreement with the US. (more…)

Joe Higgins and Clare Daly were released from jail today. See this report from website of RTE, Irish state broadcaster. Click here

Bush and Howard talk in Canberra: The implications for the working class of a Free Trade Agreement.
Publicly it’s all back-slapping over their phyric victory in Iraq and solemn statements of opposition to terrorism, but the real agenda for the Bush-Howard meeting revolves around a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the US and Australia. Howard and his wing of the ruling class have positioned Australia as the US sheriff in East Asia and himself as the region’s Tony Blair. (more…)

CAN US capitalism pull the world economy out of its present stagnation? Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism Today, looks at the world economy today. (more…)

The latest statement on the National Question from the CWI in Scotland.
This statement has been written in the aftermath of the May 1st Scottish elections which saw a severe defeat for the main pro-independence, nationalist party the Scottish National Party. The purpose of this statement is to explain the approach, programme and method of the International Socialists and the Committee for a Workers International on the national question. (more…)

There was a 300-strong rally and march against the US military occupation of Iraq in Seattle on 6 October. The protest was primarily organised by the Seattle branch of ‘Not In Our Name (NION)’.


Ramy Khalil, Seattle, Socialist Alternative (US CWI section)
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