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Write on: Letters to the editor

'Socialist Israel' I Dave Murray's letter (Write On, GLW #489), replying to Shane Bentley, misses the point of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He calls for a "socialist confederation of the Middle East". I would like to see more than just a

CFMEU: 'They will never break our fighting spirit'

BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI PERTH — The royal commission into the construction industry, which has been conducting hearings around Australia since October, has just concluded its first hearings in Perth. The commission, headed by former NSW Supreme Court

IRAQ: US sabotages progress on inspections

BY NORM DIXON The United States remains determined to launch a massive military attack to topple Iraq's President Saddam Hussein, even in the face of the explosion of popular anger in Middle Eastern countries triggered by Israel's state terrorism

Hundreds protest for Palestine

BY JESS MELVIN MELBOURNE — Three-hundred and fifty people, most of them young, took to the streets on April 27, demanding Israel get out of Palestine. "Palestine will be free — because there will never be a day in which we stop raising our

PALESTINE: Israeli assault leaves massive destruction

BY AHMAD NIMER RAMALLAH — Despite widespread reports in the mainstream media that Israeli troops have withdrawn from Palestinian cities (excluding the area around Yasser Arafat's compound and Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity), the Israeli

AMWU sets a militant way forward

BY JUSTINE KAMPRAD MELBOURNE — At its conference on April 22-23, the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) mapped out ambitious industrial goals, condemned an internal investigation into the state branch, and

Food workers offered a militant alternative

BY SUE BOLTON SYDNEY — In the election for national secretary of the food and confectionary division of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), workers have the opportunity to vote in favour of militant unionism. Assistant state

From M1 to M1

BY PETER BOYLE The indications from around the world are that the movement against globalised capitalist power has not been cowed by the United States' military and ideological offensive that masquerades as the post-September 11 "war against

ITALY: 'The piazzas are too small today'

BY DICK NICHOLS MILAN — Question: How can you tell when a general strike really is a general strike and not just the most organised parts of the working class taking a day off? Answer: When it's like the April 16 Italian general strike against

Refugee activists plan protest

BY MATT RICH MELBOURNE — Refugee-rights protesters will hit the streets again on June 23, following a decision of the Refugee Action Collective-Victoria (RAC-Vic) to endorse a rally at 1pm that day outside the State Library in the city, around

Show Mercy: support for refugees grows

BY LISA MACDONALD SYDNEY — Those are "the real queues", Julie McCrossin told the capacity crowd inside Sydney Town Hall on April 21, referring to the hundreds of refugee-rights supporters outside who'd been unable to get tickets for the

UNITED STATES: Fighting for change in the belly of the beast

BY ALISON DELLIT "The idea that the United States is just one big pool of reactionary politics is false — there is resistance to President George Bush, and we want to extend that", Ahmed Shawki, a leader of the US International Socialist