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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 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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
BY MERYAN TOZER MELBOURNE — "The terrible history of the last century tells us that fascist movements have to be fought when they emerge — if they are allowed to grow it is too late", anti-Blackshirt campaigner Riki Lane told 200 people at
BY JAMES BALOWSKI Three weeks after the fatal shooting of two Americans and an Indonesian from the Freeport gold and copper mine in Indonesia's eastern-most province of West Papua, the identity of the perpetrators is still unclear. Indonesian