MELBOURNE — On May 30, 30 people attended a meeting in Campbellfield, a northern suburb of Melbourne, to launch a local group to campaign against the federal government's attacks on workers' rights and welfare.
Dave Kerin, convenor of the Union
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Kathy Newnam, Darwin
The Ranger uranium mine operator, Energy Resources Australia, has received a $150,000 fine by the Darwin Magistrates Court for breaching the Mining Management Act. ERA pleaded guilty
PM John Howard is moving his war on workers and the poor into top gear. The Coalition's plans to push through pernicious legislation when it takes control of the Senate in July are clear.
Howard is drawing a line in the sand, and so must we. Green
Leaders of the New Zealand Maori Party have been touring Australian cities to boost support for the party, which has become a growing force in NZ politics over the past year.
They were invited by branches of the party formed by Maori migrants in
Trade unionist and political prisoner Craig Johnston was released from Loddon prison in country Victoria on May 26, the same day that the Coalition government announced its next set of anti-union laws.
In 2001, while Johnston was the Victorian
On May 30, the revolutionary socialist party Lalit nominated 32 candidates across all 20 constituencies for the upcoming general election. Opposing the constitutional requirement that for their nomination to be accepted, each candidate must list
MELBOURNE — The federal government's terrorism charges against Jack Thomas are aimed at making him a "scapegoat to cover up their own evil deeds", Tim Anderson told a public meeting on June 2.
Anderson, who spent eight years in prison, wrongly
According to the Palestine National Information Centre's May 30 report on the Al Asqa Intifada, 4032 Palestinians, 750 of them children have died since September 2000. Of the total deaths, 732 were caused by Israeli shelling of Palestinian homes.
The Coalition's industrial relations "reform" package is aimed at gutting the Australian union movement. In a round-table discussion in the June issue of Seeing Red, three militant unionists — Joan Doyle (Victorian secretary of the Communications,
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I have submitted some resolutions for the forthcoming conference of the Socialist Alliance. There is one that I have frequently discussed with other comrades and that is the urgent need to have 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly sold at newsagents
@intro2 = Peter Boyle is a member of the national executives of both the Democratic Socialist Perspective and the Socialist Alliance.
What has the Socialist Alliance achieved in its four years of existence?
The Socialist Alliance is probably the
Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and SeventiesBy Jeremy VaronUniversity of California Press, 2004394 pages, $44 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
"Bringing the war home" was
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