BY LEON PARISSI
Alison Dellit's article "Labor flounders rightward" (GLW #474) cheers on those voices who are in favour of decreased union influence in the ALP.
She wrote: "It would be no loss for workers if trade unions' votes within the ALP
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A massive demonstration in solidarity with migrants and asylum seekers took place on January 19 in Rome. Between 100,000 and 150,000 people protested against immigration laws proposed by Italy's far-right coalition government. The three-hour march
BY NATALIE ZIRNGAST
MARYSVILLE, Victoria — On January 23, a forest blockade near Marysville was broken up by police. David Marsden, a spokesperson for the blockade organising group, Actively Conserving Marysville Environs (ACME), described the
BY SUSAN PRICE
The United States and other First World governments are using the "war on terrorism" as a pretext to launch an offensive against the peoples of the Third World. All around the world, governments are attacking working people's living
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for IndependenceBy Ray RaphaelPart of the New Press People's History series, edited by Howard ZinnThe New Press, 2001386 pages, $55.90 (hb)
BY TAMARA PEARSON
SYDNEY — Around 2000 people mobilised in Town Hall Square on February 2 to demand the closure of the Australian government's appalling immigration detention centres, an end to mandatory detention of asylum seekers and their
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Ph 9565 5522. Visit <http://www.channel31.org> for
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN — Late last year a "temporary processing centre" for asylum seekers was constructed on the Coonawarra Naval Base, located in outer Darwin.
Despite costing $3 million to build, it remains empty as the federal Coalition
LISMORE — Twenty activists from the new Refugee Action Collective (Lismore) occupied a roundabout on February 1 and set up a symbolic detention centre. Many passers-by responded positively. In the previous week, the Refugee Action Collective (Byron
In a statement released on January 16, the International Socialist Organisation of Zimbabwe — the country's only organised Marxist current — reminded Zimbabweans that "none but ourselves will liberate ourselves".
The European Union is
BY RAY FULCHER
MELBOURNE — "There is no need for the creation of a new federal offence of terrorism because current criminal law is sufficient to catch all the activities perpetrated by terrorists", Chris Maxwell, from Liberty Victoria, told a
BY KIM LINDEN
NEWCASTLE — On January 31, a meeting at the Joy Cummins centre decided to set up Newcastle Action for Refugee Rights (NARR).
Attended by 20 people, the meeting was called to organise a Newcastle contingent to the February 12
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