Seventy protesters marched
down the streets of Leichhardt in opposition to war and racism on November
8. The protest was organised by the Port Jackson branch of the Socialist
Alliance.
Photo by Liam Mitchell.
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BY ALISON DELLIT
"It was under the military rule of Suharto that Indonesia experienced the only decades of stability that it has so far enjoyed. They were decades of corruption and suppression, but also of increasing prosperity and stability. There
UN vote brings war closer
The unanimous vote by the 15 members of the United Nations Security
Council on November 8 to impose “tough” new weapons inspection rules and
deadlines for compliance on Iraq, with the threat of “serious
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
Globalization and its Discontents
By Joseph Stiglitz
Penguin, $45 (hb)
REVIEW BY LEE SUSTAR
In the last decades of
the USSR, Western officials denounced the Kremlin whenever Moscow purged
or harassed dissidents who had the courage
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Environmentalists
paid $20,000 for an airport advertising campaign that was terminated in
less than 24 hours amid allegations of political censorship.
On November 1, the Wilderness Society, supported by
BY TIM STEWART
BRISBANE — In a last-ditch attempt to save Brisbane's inner-city
bushland from a private developer, activists led by the Gully Action Group
launched daily occupations and pickets of Highgate Hill Gully on October
21, when
BY SAM KING& ROBYN MARSHALL
BRISBANE — Three hundred trade unionists and students attended a loud and determined protest march for union rights and intellectual freedom on October 30 at the University of Queensland (UQ) campus at St Lucia.
BY SIMON MILLAR
The current
unity discussions initiated by the proposal by the Democratic Socialist
Party (DSP) to dissolve into the Socialist Alliance are of vital importance
to the future of the socialist movement in this country.
BY DAVID GLANZ
[The following
is the text of a letter sent on November 3 on behalf of the national executive
of the International Socialist Organisation (ISO) to the national executive
of the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP).]
Thank
BY DEBBIE BRENNAN
Delia Maxwell, socialist
feminist fighter and a member of Radical Women and the Socialist Alliance,
lost her battle against cancer on November 2. Born in 1932, Delia's life
spanned much of the turbulent 20th century.
Activists met at the Lismore Workers Club on October 31 to organise
opposition to war on Iraq. Called No War on Iraq, the group is planning
a march and rally at Lismore's Spinks Park at 10am on November 30.
Pictured are the activists
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