Workers Liberty No. 31 now available at New International Bookshop Melbourne, Gould's bookshop and Gleebooks in Sydney and any Socialist Alliance literature stall near you... Also soon at: www.workersliberty.org/australia
Inside: Socialist Alliance The second National Conference of the Socialist Alliance in May voted to move towards a united multi-tendency socialist party. Most SA members expected a different situation and a different tempo for Socialist Alliance as a result. In fact, there has been more continuity than dramatic change in the two months since the Conference. NSW Public Service jobs fight Both the PSA and Teachers Federation members have begun holding workplace and delegate meetings, the essential starting point for a serious campaign. Brazil – Lula and Workers’ Party begin crackdown on left Aceh – Downer supports Indonesian assault on separatists Gulf War 2 – Was it a Dollar versus Euro proxy war? What were the real reasons behind the USA’s drive for war in Iraq? Two polar-opposite explanations have been discussed on the left. The first theory is that the USA’s power has now become so huge that the US capitalist class realistically aspires to rule the whole world more or less directly, laying down the law for every country from Washington.The second is that the USA is frantically trying to stall a decline in its world power. Specifically, that USA went to war in Iraq essentially to stop the world oil industry moving to trade in euros rather than dollars. Both explanations seem to me simplistic and overly conspiratorial. Debate on US ‘hyperimperialism’ Book reviews: Groundswell: the rise of the Greens; The Vulnerable planet BossWatch Israel/Palestine: Roadmap to two states or Roadmap to bantustans? -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]