BY DARREN JIGGINS
HOBART — Three hundred people participated in a rally demanding “No
war on Iraq” on September 21. The rally was organised by Peace Coalition,
which met for the first time on September 15.
Speakers at the rally included
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BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — Against the backdrop of a looming US-led war on Iraq, some 300 activists participated in the first Sydney Social Forum on September 20-21.
The SSF hosted 65 workshops and six feature panels. Topics discussed included
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — Readers of the September 14 Age newspaper may have thought they were about to get a real inside story when they saw the front-page teaser: "Craig Johnston: The Making of a Middle Class Revolutionary".
But they would
MELBOURNE — Fifty
people crammed into Hendersons Cafe to launch the West Welcomes Refugees
postcard campaign on September 21. The postcards, designed by Viv Mehes
and featuring students from Footscray City College, allow Western suburbs
BY STUART MARTIN
MELBOURNE — As the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union's Victorian branch approaches a round of organiser elections, the court case on democracy in the union has continued another week without a decision being made as to who
[The following is the editorial from the September issue of Workers
Liberty magazine. The Workers Liberty group is one of eight organisations
affiliated to the Socialist Alliance.]
Workers' Liberty has been arguing that the Socialist
Victory for Samsonite workers
On September 13, the last 29 workers illegally sacked by a Thai subcontractor of US luggage giant Samsonite were reinstated. The company gave assurances that it will not "interfere with trade union activities" or
BY ALISON THORNE
[The following is the text of a talk given at a panel at the International
Socialist Organisation's Marxism 2002 conference held in Melbourne, September
6-8. Alison Thorne spoke on behalf of the Freedom Socialist Party, one
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BY GRANT COLEMAN
WOLLONGONG — At a student general meeting on September 17, Wollongong
University students and staff voted overwhelmingly to declare their campus
a refugee safe haven and to donate money to escaped refugees.
Despite
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — The anniversary of September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the US were remembered with highly charged images, especially those of the grieving families of the victims. The respect and sympathy owed to these suffering
SYDNEY — More
than 100 protesters rallied in the western Sydney suburb of Auburn on September
20, opposing any war on Iraq. The protest was organised by the Socialist
Alliance, which decided on September 17 to run local activist Roberto
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