Socialist campaigning plans for 2002

January 16, 2002
Issue 
476
News

Among the campaigning plans and activities projected at the conference were:

  • Building large, vibrant anti-war and pro-refugee demonstrations on May 1 in every major city around Australia.

  • Support for the second Asia-Pacific Internationakl Solidarity conference to be held in Sydney from March 29-April 1 and support for Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific (ASAP).

  • Strengthening the Socialist Alliance, and supporting the alliance's tour of Farooq Tariq of the Labour Party Pakistan in April.

  • Campaigning for a royal commission into the treatment of refugee and strengthened support for refugee rights groups.

  • Helping to build "women against war and racism" demonstrations on International Women's Day.

  • Continuing to build the movement against the US-led war on the Third World.

  • Supporting militant unions against any attack by the Howard government.

  • Resisting attacks on civil liberties.

  • Organising refugee rights groups and anti-war action committees on university campuses.

From Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, January 16, 2002.
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