[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
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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
BY STEVE CILIA
MELBOURNE — The September 16 meeting of the Socialist Alliance's
Melbourne branch preselected long-term anti-racist campaigner Arun Pradhan
as its candidate for the seat of Melbourne in the next state election.
Pradhan
BY DARREN JIGGINS
HOBART — Three hundred people participated in a rally demanding “No
war on Iraq” on September 21. The rally was organised by Peace Coalition,
which met for the first time on September 15.
Speakers at the rally included
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
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
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 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
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
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
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