BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA — The Members First group in the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) is running a national ticket against the ALP-dominated incumbent team in the union elections starting on May 2.
The Members First candidates
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BY BARRY SHEPPARD
OAKLAND, California — Police in full riot gear attacked a peaceful anti-war picket line at the docks here on April 7. The cops shot protesters and wharfies, who were nearby, with 2.5-centimetre diameter wooden dowels that left
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA — The Socialist Alliance in the ACT has doubled its financial membership over the past month, a result of intense involvement in the anti-war movement. The alliance has also collected thousands of signatures on a
BY
SARAH STEPHEN
Afghan refugees, some of whom have lived in Australia for three years,
are being taken from their houses in the early hours of the morning and
put into detention because the immigration department argues that they
are not
BY ALISON DELLIT
Federal Labor leader Simon Crean has signalled yet another retreat on Labor's "anti-war" position. Speaking to the ABC's AM program on April 11, Crean said, "If we are part of the occupying force, the ability to bring [the troops]
BY ROHAN REARCE
Since the White House set its sights on the invasion of Iraq, the Murdoch family-owned press around the world has been solidly pro-war.
However, the April 7 edition of the Daily Telegraph, Murdoch's Sydney tabloid, set a new low
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Hundreds of refugee-rights campaigners will converge on Baxter detention centre from all over Australia on the Easter weekend to focus the national spotlight on the horrors of mandatory detention.
There is disconetent among local
BY DOUG LORIMER
Emboldened by the US military's apparent quick defeat of the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein, the war hawks in and around the administration of US President George Bush are setting their sights on "regime change" in Syria and Iran.
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
BURNIE — Student anti-war activist Matt Hardy completed a week-long hunger strike against war on Iraq on April 2. Supported by a network of friends and family, Hardy spent the week outside the Kmart Plaza on one of the main
BY ADAM LEEMAN
SYDNEY — "The company is expecting us to give up, but the longer we are out here the stronger we get", a striking worker at picket line outside the Morris McMahon can manufacturing plant told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly.
Sixty-five workers
JOHANNESBURG — On April 5, more than 12,000 people marched behind about 15 "human shields", who have recently returned from Iraq, to oppose the US-led invasion of Iraq. The protest, organised by the Anti-War Coalition (AWC), marched through the
BY
JOHN PILGER
LONDON, April 10 — A BBC television producer, moments before he was
wounded by a US fighter aircraft that killed 18 people with “friendly fire”,
spoke to his mother on a satellite phone. Holding the phone over his head
so
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