BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — A powerful new anti-war documentary is being screened by Socialist Alliance. Not in My Name tells the story of the US-led "war on terrorism" you have not been allowed to see on tellie. It asks, "why is dropping bombs on
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BY JEFF SHANTZ
TORONTO — Despite the Canadian state's proud role as junior partner to US imperialism and the federal government's repeated statements of loyalty to Washington's war efforts, the anti-war movement in Canada had been slow off the
BY STUART MUNCKTON
"We have burnt our boats. There is no turning back", Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared in a national broadcast on January 6. "We will carry on consolidating and deepening the revolution", the radical pro-poor president
BY
GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — Recent emergency actions against war in Iraq show the
depth of anger against the Australian governmentÂ’s decision to back the
impending war against Iraq.
On January 19, more than 150 people joined a hastily
When the government is preparing to wage a bloody war on the people of Iraq, which will result in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi people;
When Australian corporate war-profiteers, like Qantas, BHP, and Dunlop, are set to
BY BRONWYN JENNINGS
GEELONG — For several years, Victorians from all sorts of backgrounds have made an annual trek to Avalon, near Geelong, to view the acrobatics of dozens of international aircraft. It has become a family weekend for hundreds of
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN — "We come to work standing, walking and talking, but with the current safety conditions, we could leave work in a pine box", the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) organiser Alan Paton, told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly.
Workers on
BY EVA CHENG
Australia's right to draw up or maintain non-profit-oriented social policies will be under threat from the "free trade" agreement (FTA) that the Coalition government seeks to make with President George Bush's US administration. Formal
BY JON LAMB
NEWCASTLE — Miners at the United coal mine 16 kilometres west of Singleton and several other pits in the Hunter region are preparing to step-up industrial action to improve wages and conditions.
"At United, the miners accepted a
BY NORM DIXON
The US National Youth and Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC) has issued a call for a national one-day student strike to demand "Books not bombs! Stop the war against Iraq" on March 5.
US President George Bush's "administration is
Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century LifeBy Eric HobsbawmAllen Lane, 2002448 pages, $55 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
It was almost better than sex, thought Eric Hobsbawm during the massive but last legal march of the German Communist Party (KPD)
BY
JACKIE LYNCH
MELBOURNE — More than 3000 Electrical Trades Union (ETU) members
met at Dallas Brookes Hall on January 22 to endorse a new enterprise bargaining
agreement (EBA).
The EBA, negotiated between the ETU and the main employer
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