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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

Fighting for global justice after M1

Fighting for global justice after M1 The 2001 May 1(M1) blockades of AustraliaÂ’s stock exchanges rallied support for the cancellation of Third World debt and the abolition of institutions such the World Bank and the International

Ruddock grilled in London

BY SARAH STEPHEN Federal immigration minister Philip Ruddock was no doubt looking forward to a pleasant speaking engagement at the April 22 Commonwealth Lawyers' Association function in London. A little awed by the illustrious status of the

and ain't i a woman?: Howard's sexism and homophobia

and ain't i a woman?: Howard's sexism and homophobia "I believe that all children deserve a dad", Prime Minister John Howard told reporters on April 22, defending his decision to attempt to deny single women and lesbians legal access to

Tribune copies wanted

Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly requires copies of Tribune, which was the weekly newspaper of the now-dissolved Communist Party of Australia, for its research library. Ddonatations or loans of early issues of Tribune, particularly, but not exclusively,

Action Updates

Caltex workers strike for new agreement BRISBANE — On April 23, around 80 maintenance workers employed by sub-contractors at the Caltex oil refinery on the mouth of the Brisbane river, voted to continue their strike. The Australian

Seminar to debate union disaffiliation from ALP

BY LISA MACDONALD SYDNEY — A public seminar being organised by the Socialist Alliance, to be held on May 11 in Parramatta Town Hall, will present militant trade unionists with an opportunity to discuss key political issues confronting workers and

Why oppose NT Labor's 'anti-drugs' laws?

BY GARY MEYERHOFF DARWIN — The Northern Territory Labor government has announced that "a legislative package on illicit drugs" will be introduced into the NT parliament this month. Justice minister Peter Toyne has also announced that Labor will

UNITED STATES: 200,000 protest the 'war without end'

BY MIKE LEON WASHINGTON — On September 11 an al-Qaeda-led terrorist network struck at the heart of US financial and political centres, killing thousands, troubling a shaky economy, and for many, destroying the notion that the US is immune from