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Anti-war protests grow

BY MELANIE SJOBERG SYDNEY — In the biggest show of Australian opposition to the war in Afghanistan yet, more than 10,000 protesters mobilised in 11 cities on the weekend of November 3-4, declaring: "No to racism, no to war — this is what we're

Protesters demand refugee rights

BY NADEEM ANSARI CANBERRA — More than 500 people turned out on November 4 to demand an end to the war on refugees in a protest organised by the Refugee Action Collective. First to address the crowd was Wadjularbinna from the Aboriginal Tent

Write on: Letters to the editor

Bullies Since the end of World War II, the USA has been the biggest and toughest kid on the block, bullying mercilessly Iraq (genocide), Cuba (40 years' blockade), El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, little Grenada, Vietnam, Chile (Pinochet's ghastly

INDONESIA: Dita Sari detained at strike

BY MAX LANE Leaders of a militant union, including former political prisoner Dita Sari, have been arrested by Indonesian police during a crackdown on striking workers. One thousand workers from fifteen branches of the Matahari Putra Prima

ACT protest demands end to the war

BY MARK ABBERTON CANBERRA — Despite bad weather, 175 people joined a protest in Garema Place on November 7 against the bipartisan Coalition-Labor backing of the US war on Afghanistan. Speakers from the Socialist Alliance, ACT Greens, Women