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Anti-WTO protesters to defy street march ban

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

UNITED STATES: Prospects for the new anti-war movement

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

DSP: 'Nothing justifies such a destructive course'

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

The government is 'Out of Order'

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

2000 march against war on Iraq

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

Write On: Letters to Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly

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

Pilger to address Sydney anti-war rally

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,

ASIO raids whipping up racism

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

'Illegal' workers and the NSW CFMEU

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

Bracks calls November 30 election

BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS MELBOURNE — On November 4, Victorian Premier Steve Bracks called an early state election for November 30, the earliest date that an election could constitutionally be called. Bracks, whose government rules with the

On the box

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UNITED STATES: Pentagon plans to provoke terrorist attacks

BY CHRIS FLOYD MOSCOW — I stand foursquare with Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense, when he warns that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilisation at large. We know, as does Rumsfeld, that this