BY KAREN FLETCHER
In the wake of the terrorist bombings in New York and Washington there has been pressure to cancel planned protests against the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane next month.
The CHOGM Action Network (CAN) has
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REVIEW BY MAX WATTS
It is a simple, well-filmed story by Liz Thompson. During a war a man kills his near neighbour. After the war is over, the man is haunted by his deed. He feels deep regret and shame for what he has done. He seeks out the widow,
BY GREG HARRIS
Most people in the world don't have access to a phone. But if they did, and if they spoke 24 hours a day for the whole year, all those conversations could be carried over the world's telephone cables in a few hours.
This gives an
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — Students and staff from the Bankstown, Campbelltown and Penrith campuses of the University of Western Sydney rallied outside the vice-chancellor's offices at UWS Penrith on September 11. The action was dubbed UWS11.
The
Refugees solidarity tour
ADELAIDE — Local supporters of the campaign for justice for asylum seekers will join the Free the Refugees Solidarity Tour to the Woomera Immigration Detention Centre on September 21. So far more than 100 have
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People's movements across the
BY GARY MEYERHOFF
DARWIN — The Northern Territory Labor Party said very little about mandatory sentencing during its successful August election campaign, and what it did say was highly confused. The only people who seemed to be saying that Labor
BY BILL BRIGGS
While we are able to look at the past with the gift of hindsight and can acknowledge the mistakes made in the name of the struggle for socialism in this country and the world, it would be wrong to simply write off the generations of
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — ALP member Ted Alexander won the 2001 Tasmania University Union presidential election by a landslide, capturing 59% of the vote. Promising to provide more free beer and improved services Alexander defeated Greens
BY ALISON DELLIT
The thing about capitalist competition is that it tends to negate itself. Back in the 1980s, when the Hawke Labor government began de-regulating commercial aviation, we were promised great benefits from increased competition. When
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance campaign for the federal seat of Batman kicked off on September 8 with a demonstration demanding that the federal government accept the Tampa refugees.
The demonstration, held at the Preston
Globalisation
Prime Minister John Howard's actions during his visit to Japan remind us yet again why the economic globalisation which underpins current political decision-making is neither in the best interests of the people nor economically
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