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.
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BY LEIGH HUGHES
Refugee activists, trade union militants, free education campaigners and socialists by the trainload are to gather at Trades Hall this weekend to discuss and further their respective struggles. They will be attending the 31st
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
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 SIMON TAYLER
SYDNEY — Every Sunday night, Channel 31's Actively Radical TV (ARTV) program includes The Palestine Report, a segment on the conflict in Palestine. The report presents viewers with a point of view that the mainstream media
BY JOCHEN STAY
BERLIN — Looking back now at the promises made by the German Green Party and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) during the 1998 election campaign, it is clear that the record of the SPD-Green coalition government on nuclear power
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 STUART MUNCKTON
CANBERRA — In a low-key Australian National University Students Association
(ANUSA) elections, held September 9-12, the Evolve ticket won all executive
positions, National Union of Students (NUS) delegate positions and
BY IGGY KIM
Of the 10,149,542 Brazilians who participated in a week-long unofficial
referendum on the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), 9,979,964
(98.33%) voted against Brazil joining the US-dominated economic bloc.
The
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Australian government speaks proudly of this countrys history of resettling large numbers of refugees (numbering 600,000 since World War II), keen to present an image of Australia as a country that opens its arms to those who
BY KERRY VERNON
BRISBANE — University of Queensland (UQ) academics, members of the National Tertiary Education Industry Union, will take industrial action from September 25 over the university's decision not to renew the employment contract of
BY ALEX MILNE
MELBOURNE —
The Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry hosted
a conference on construction industry safety on September 19 and 20. The
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), the
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