BY NORM DIXON
US President
George Bush has cynically exploited the 9/11 terror attacks to launch a
blatant drive to finally realise the long-held dream of the United States
capitalist ruling class: an “American Century” (as the goal was
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And ain't i a woman: Laws continue to fail women
Recently, a woman in NSW was awarded $500,000 in damages for physical abuse she endured during her marriage. Because of the abuse, the woman suffers from deep vein thrombosis and has permanent
Anti-war recruitment centre
MELBOURNE — Twenty-six activists occupied an army recruitment centre on November 6 and transformed it into an anti-war recruitment centre. Posters were stuck on the windows, while activists campaigned outside.
BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY — Activists
planning demonstrations during the World Trade Organisation (WTO) mini-ministerial
meeting in Sydney, November 14-15, have condemned the NSW Labor government's
plans to prohibit street marches during the
BY JACK SMITH
NEW PALTZ,
New York — On October 26, the ANSWER [Act Now to Stop War and End Racism]
coalition mobilised hundreds of thousands in Washington, San Francisco
and well over 100 other cities in the US and abroad against the Bush
BY JOHN PERCY
[The following letter was sent on November 7 on behalf of the national
executive of the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) to the national executive
of the International Socialist Organisation (ISO).]
Dear comrades, we were
BY KATHERINE BRADSTREET
Earlier this year, the Out of Order student collective carried out an 84-day protest and occupation of the lawns of the Bathurst campus of Charles Sturt University in a successful campaign to save the school of
BY JIM MCILROY
BRISBANE — Two-thousand people gathered in the Roma Street Forum
on November 3 for a lively rally opposing any war on Iraq.
Demonstrators came from far and wide, from Ipswich to the Gold and Sunshine
coasts. The protest
Socialist Alliance
The discussion around left unity has left me wondering if some comrades think that we have to build the Socialist Alliance in a vacuum.
Phil Sandford (GLW #515) suggests that SA must "develop as an organisation in its own
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — John
Pilger has confirmed he will speak at the “Walk Against the War” on November
30, the city's first major protest rally opposing the looming war on Iraq.
The protest has bought together anti-war, community,
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Prime Minister John Howard has been at pains to argue that the ASIO raids on Indonesian Muslims in recent weeks were not targeting Indonesians, nor Muslims, resident in Australia. He was even more affronted by the allegation that
BY ANDREW FERGUSON
Sam Wainwright's
article on “illegals” (GLW #513) was great in theory but demonstrated
a lack of understanding of the dynamics of contracting.
Employers have historically used many strategies to undermine union
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