Two decades of privatisation and deregulation have seen the undermining of the traditional blue-collar base in manufacturing along with the great impoverishment of the vast majority of people in society, while at...

MP Joe Higgins and councillor Clare Daly sent to Mountjoy Prison today! Their 'crime' is defending the poor in the fight against the Bin Tax! This afternoon a Dublin court summarily meted out one month...

IN LATE July, the Australian government launched the biggest armed intervention in the South Pacific since World War Two when more than 2,000 military personnel and police officers were sent to the crisis-torn Solomon...

The Indonesian army has launched a ferocious military assault in Aceh in an attempt to destroy the pro-independence Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and to cow the local population. Even the right wing media empire of...

The speedy overthrow of the Saddam Hussain'­s regime has resulted in a wave of propaganda emanating from the leaders of the coalition forces. Bush, Blair and Howard are now basking in the supposed vindication...

SARS is a disease with flu like symptoms that is infectious and kills up to 10% of those it infects. It is not as infectious or as deadly as some of the flu strains yet already...

It seems such a short time ago that Helen Clark and her colleagues in the New Zealand Labour Government were being widely praised for their bold stand against the US-led invasion of Iraq. Only...

The New Zealand general elections in July 2002 saw many unprecedented changes in voting patterns. The Labour Party was, with a small rise in support, able to remain in power by forming a new...