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Revolutionary feminism and socialist unity

BY PAT BREWER Is the Democratic Socialist Party a revolutionary feminist party? Not really, according to Alison Thorne, a leading member of the Freedom Socialist Party (FSP). The DSP, Thorne argued in her contribution on the future of the

Socialist Alliance for lesbian and gay rights

On March 1, the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade will fill the streets of inner-city Sydney in a confident assertion of all people's right to choose and live their sexual orientation, and to mark the political struggles that have won

IRAQ: Pentagon plans holocaust in Baghdad

BY ROHAN PEARCE "There will not be a safe place in Baghdad", an unnamed Pentagon official told the US news network CBS on January 24."You're sitting in Baghdad and all of a sudden you're the general and 30 of you at division headquarters have been

Labor overrides tribunal to build dam

BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — The state Labor government of Premier Jim Bacon decided on February 3 to introduce new laws to allow the $30 million Meander Dam project to go ahead. Previously, the Resource Management and Planning Appeals Tribunal

Write On: Letters to Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly

Keep protesting! Please do not let up on our protest against war with Iraq. If Howard thinks those protesting at the weekend {February 14-16] are in the minority. Let's have another and another until he takes notice. The hide of the man! Peter

News Briefs

AMEC workers victory MELBOURNE — Workers employed by AMEC, the company contracted to install new generators at the Carrum Downs water treatment plant, are back at work. They won the reinstatement of eight workers, including the Australian

A woman's place is in the struggle: All out against war on March 8!

International Women's Day protests, along with the March 5 international student strike, are shaping up to be the next globally coordinated actions against war on Iraq. The strike and IWD events are scheduled for the first week of March —

Armed police terrorise Melbourne building workers

BY SUE BOLTON MELBOURNE — Armed federal police and immigration officers carried out a Rambo-style raid on an inner-city building site on February 20. The police and immigration officers stormed the Bayview building site in Port Melbourne at

Unions Tasmania opposes unilateral US war

BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — The Unions Tasmania Council, the peak union body in the state, issued a statement from its meeting on February 13 opposing a unilateral US war on Iraq. However, the statement supports UN calls on Iraq to "surrender

RMIT pledges support for refugees

BY GILLIAN DAVY MELBOURNE — RMIT University has made a landmark commitment to support refugees and asylum seekers, with a range of bold initiatives being implemented this year. RMIT plans to urge other Australian universities, through the

'We can give hope to people'

BY LISA MACDONALD & OWEN RICHARDS Osama Yousif, 35, arrived in Australia as a political refugee from Sudan in June 2000. Today, he is an upper house candidate for the Socialist Alliance in the March 22 NSW election. Yousif first

Anti-war activist notebook 3

Wollongong’s peace train and IWD plans BY MARG PERROTT WOLLONGONG — After the 5000-strong February 8 anti-war rally here, a large crowd was expected to travel from Wollongong to Sydney on February 16. Although originally NOWAR had