Doug Lorimer

  • Kosova's long struggle for independence

    By Doug Lorimer The current conflict between the Western powers and the Serbian state has its roots in the decision in 1913 by these powers to hand over nearly half of Albania (the present-day region of Kosova) to Serbian control. Once again the

  • DSP congress: 'China now ruled by capitalist state'

    At its 18th congress on January 5-10, the Democratic Socialist Party adopted a document which concluded that China, like Russia and the other former Soviet republics (as well as the former "Communist"-ruled countries of Eastern

  • Asian crisis threatens to engulf Japan

    Just three years after Mexico's financial disaster, the second great financial crisis of the 1990s exploded in south-east Asia and South Korea. The same imperialist institutions that only a year ago held up the Asian "dragons" and

  • The Northern Ireland agreement: will it bring peace?

    Speaking in Belfast shortly before the Labour Party won the UK general election last year, Tony Blair declared, "I believe in the United Kingdom. I value the union" between Britain and Northern Ireland. Within this framework, on

  • Lessons of the 1968 revolt

    The French revolt of May-June 1968 began in December 1967 with a strike in eight Paris high schools to support a demonstration against government cuts in social security. This was followed by another high school walkout in January

  • Parliament versus democracy

    The lack of financial accountability of MPs revealed by the "Colston affair" highlights the fact that — contrary to the myths perpetuated by establishment political commentators in the capitalist media and in academia, as well

  • 'Globalisation' and the capitalist austerity drive

    It is widely asserted that a truly global economy has emerged or is emerging in which distinct national economies and state policies corresponding to them are irrelevant. The world economy is now dominated by corporations that

  • It takes more than words to deconstruct capitalism

    In my opinion, Greg Ogle's review of Katherine Gibson and Julie Graham's book The End of Capitalism in GLW #256 concedes far too much to the drivel of these "post-modernists". For example: lHe writes, "many on the left

  • Ultraleft sects lecture Indonesian activists

    In the wake of the July 27 riots in Jakarta against the military's assault on the offices of Megawati Sukarnoputri's liberal-democratic Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) and the subsequent crackdown by the Suharto autocracy against

  • US widens its lead over rivals

    Since the early 1970s, the world capitalist system has been in a long economic downturn, a period of decelerating economic growth tending toward stagnation. Since 1975, in contrast to the preceding 30 years, the downturns in the

  • The politics of the gun laws debate

    The Port Arthur massacre and the decision by the May 10 meeting of state police ministers to endorse Prime Minister John Howard's proposals to ban the possession by civilians of automatic and semi-automatic firearms and establish a

  • Should socialists join the ALP?

    Roger Clarke (GLW #174) claims that the Democratic Socialist Party has an inconsistent approach to the ALP, ie, that we characterise it as a capitalist party, but we also recognise that in some conditions it may be