Victory for student democracy
BRISBANE — Students at the University of Queensland have voted decisively to reject changes to the UQ Union constitution, proposed by Liberal students. The no vote was victorious with a 62% majority of the almost
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BY BARRY WEISLEDER
TORONTO — Labour Day parades across Ontario and other parts of Canada will march under darkening clouds on September 1 — regardless of the weather. A number of trade unions are giving way as a rising tide of employer demands
Canberra's moves to resume military cooperation with Jakarta, especially with the quasi-state-terror gang Kopassus, in the name of the "war on terror", should strongly be opposed by all those who support the democratic rights of the workers and
BY SHUA GARFIELD
HOBART — Socialist Alliance member Peter Cahill, a public servant in the Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services, launched action with the Anti-Discrimination Tribunal (ADT) on July 29, seeking a declaration that the
After mud-wrestling, we didn't think it could get much worse. "Hunting for Bambi", the latest form of "adult entertainment" for some in the US, is a sadistic twist on the already sadistic sport skirmish (paintball).
"Hunting for Bambi" involves
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — Following the decision by a wing of the Walk Against the War Coalition (WAWC) to initiate a new anti-war group — the Sydney Peace and Justice Coalition (SPJC) — a campaign has begun in earnest to maintain a united,
BY MICHAEL LEBOWITZ
"Nationalise the banks!", "Take over enterprises that have shutdown and run them instead by workers!", "Refuse to pay the external debt and use the funds to create jobs!", "Reduce the work week to 36 hours!", "Create new
BY DANNY FAIRFAX
More than 300,000 people attended demonstrations, forums, film showings and concerts in the Larzac plateau region of southern France on August 8-10. The Larzac Festival was held under the slogan, Le monde n'est pas une marchandise
BY ADAM MACLEAN
Attacking public media and people's access to voices other than its own is part of the Coalition government's systematic campaign of suppressing free speech and democratic rights.
Example one: The new anti-terrorism laws are now
BY SETH ACKERMAN
NEW YORK — By the time the war against Iraq began, much of the media had been conditioned to believe, almost as an article of faith, that Saddam Hussein's Iraq was bulging with chemical and biological weapons, despite years of
BY JANICE HART
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — In March and April, during and after the run-up to the US war on Iraq, the Albuquerque Public School (APS) District suspended five high school educators for having signs, flyers or student artwork about
BY IGGY KIM
Buoyed by its success in getting all 16 member-states in the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) to support its colonial-style intervention into the Solomons Islands, Canberra is now pushing for the various "arms of government" among Pacific
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