Medicare campaign
Tom Freeman and Patrick McLeish, leading members of the International Socialist Organisation in Melbourne, take issue with parts of my interview (91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly #553) with Gary Harper, president of the Darebin Defend and Extend
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After two years and more than $60 million of taxpayers' money, the recommendations from the federal government's building industry royal commission have been put into proposed legislation. The draft Building and Construction Industry
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Two weeks after Prime Minister John Howard denied that his government had received requests from Washington to increase the number of Australian troops in Iraq, he announced on September 8 that US President George Bush had accepted
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Ernie Gare died on August 17 at the age of 86. He was a member of the Communist Party of Australia from 1941 until the party dissolved itself in 1992, and a sympathiser of the Democratic Socialist Party thereafter. Ernie's
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BRISBANE — In a challenge to conservative union officials in the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, AMWU metal division activists will stand for state and national conference delegate positions in the November union
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BRISBANE — Queensland Liberal senator Brett Mason has been accused of being a "dummy-spitting bigot", after he criticised the acknowledgment of traditional land owners at citizenship ceremonies. Mason used a citizenship day speech
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As the current Palestinian uprising enters its fourth year, many commentators appear puzzled by the duration and tenacity of the intifada (meaning "shaking off"). If the intifada was "orchestrated" by Palestinian Authority (PA)
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Eating disorders now rank as Australia's third worst health problem for women under 18 years old. A recent survey conducted from June 2002 to June 2003 by the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit, which involved all Australian
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The socialist movement lost an inspiring campaigner when Socialist Alliance member and 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly supporter Jim Dooley died in Gosford, on the NSW Central Coast, on September 15, aged 73. Jim, who had been a longtime,
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In the first week of September, Lanora Jackson and her 12-year-old daughter Cassie drove masses of Stolen Wages Campaign postcards from Brisbane to Sydney and Melbourne, in a bid to build support and solidarity for the Queensland
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SYDNEY — Local residents in the heavily populated Auburn-Clyde-Granville area, in Sydney's western suburbs, are fighting to stop the Collex corporation from opening a waste "transfer station" in Clyde. The dump has the backing of
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MELBOURNE — Plans to give US President George Bush the welcome he deserves are well underway in Melbourne. An ad hoc committee to organise against Bush's visit to Australia was formed on September 20. A mix of peace
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PERTH — At its meeting on September 18 the Perth No War Alliance decided to change its planned October 25 protest, in order to hold a protest coinciding with the visit to Australia of US President George Bush. The new
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PERTH — Eight thousand members of the Australian Education Union (AEU) attended a vibrant stop work meeting at Subiaco Oval on September 17, as part of a half-day stoppage to win a 30% pay rise over the next three years. Hundreds
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Venezuelan student leader Alvaro Guzman explained the revolutionary process underway in his country to hundreds of people at public meetings in Brisbane, Canberra, Newcastle, Wollongong and Sydney during the second week of his
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Forum marks Chile coup BRISBANE — On September 11, 100 people attended a "People's Forum" to mark the 30th anniversary of the military coup which overthrew left-wing Chilean president Salvador Allende. Greetings were given to the gathering by
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SYDNEY — David Hicks, who has been held at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for almost two years. His father, Terry, told 130 people attending a public meeting at the Trades Hall Auditorium on September 20 that he
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SYDNEY — At its September 15 meeting, attended by more than 60 people, the newly formed Stop the War Coalition decided to organise a giant protest when US President George Bush visits Australia in late October. Seventeen
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Across Australia, people are planning to travel to Canberra to protest against US President George Bush's visit to Australia, likely to be in the few days after October 21. Solidarity protests are also being planned in a number of cities. Planned so
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SYDNEY — On September 11, 100 students participated in a student general meeting at the University of Western Sydney's Bankstown campus. They voted defend the autonomy of the Bankstown Student Association, which is threatened by
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MELBOURNE — "US troops [in Iraq] are forced to stay inside their bases most of the time, and when they do emerge, they are attacked", US socialist Paul D'Amato told a public meeting organised by Socialist Alternative on
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PERTH — A lunch-time mass meeting of 1000 public service employees on September 17 voted to begin an industrial campaign in support of better pay and conditions after Premier Geoff Gallop government's refusal of anything
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Stuck with old script "If we're successful in Iraq . . . then we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of ... the geographic base of the terrorists who had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11." — US
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SYDNEY — More than 800 schools were shut down in NSW on September 17. The 24-hour strike also closed colleges and TAFEs across NSW, as tens of thousands of primary, secondary, TAFE and trainee teachers took part. The industrial
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CANBERRA — The ACT Network Opposing War held a meeting on September 16 to organise the largest protest possible against the visit to Australia by US President George Bush planned for late October. The meeting, which 20
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Mootaz Attia, known in Australia as Abu Quassey, a self-proclaimed people smuggler of Egyptian nationality, went on trial in Egypt on September 13 for the manslaughter of 353 people on the boat now known as SIEV-X ("suspected
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MELBOURNE — Across Australia, 100,000 teachers poured out of their schools throughout Australia on September 17 in the biggest teacher action that has ever taken place in this country, and the biggest single-profession national strike
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The collapse last week of trade talks at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Cancun, Mexico, has re-focused attention on the US-Australia negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA). On September 14, trade minister Mark Vaile
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The emergence of the Al Aqsa Intifada (uprising) in September 2000 was inevitable. For years before, Palestinian population centres remained enclosed by a strict Israeli military cordon. The Palestinian people were being denied the
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SAN FRANCISCO — "If you do this recall, you may create a problem that you won't get over for a long, long time. This spreads instability and uncertainty among [California's] people and people around the country." The speaker
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SAN FRANCISCO — An important victory has been won by undocumented workers in California as a result of the recall election of Democrat governor Gray Davis. To avoid being recalled in the October 7 poll, Davis has reversed his
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SANTIAGO — Days before the anniversary of the 1973 military coup that overthrew the left-wing government of President Salvador Allende, half of the people on Santiago's busiest street were shopping. The other half were
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BANGKOK — An estimated 3000 farmers and activists converged on the US embassy and European Union Commission in Bangkok on September 9 to demand an immediate end to trade liberalisation and unfair agricultural trade rules, which
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DUBLIN — Nine women's rights, women's health and civil liberties organisations came together for a press conference in Dublin's Shelbourne Hotel on September 5 to mark the 20th anniversary of the passing of the Eighth Amendment to
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On September 15, one day after the dramatic collapse of global trade talks at the World Trade Organisation's fifth ministerial summit in Cancun, Mexico, US Senate finance committee chairperson Charles Grassley declared that while the
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SUVA — The Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) and Ecumenical Centre for Research, Education and Advocacy (ECREA) in Fiji on September 16 supported calls for a consumer boycott of products made by the Fiji government-owned Pacific Fishing
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"Organise yourselves and we will give you the political and economic support" was Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's advice to the revolutionary movement in his country. Workers and peasants in Venezuela are heeding it. The
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It didn't take long for post-9/11 "anti-terrorism" legislation to be used against protesters in Britain. Police used powers under section 44 of the Terrorism Act to stop and search protesters during demonstrations outside of Europe's
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An investigation by the Washington Post's Vernon Loeb has revealed that the number of US troops in Iraq who are being officially classified "wounded in action" is around 10 per day. The number of soldiers injured by the Iraqi
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There was little doubt about what feelings dwell in the heart of Negro Alpius Kogoyo, head of the Lani tribe of Mimika and commander of the Peoples Opposed to the Division of Papua.
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Jack Heyman, business agent for San Francisco's Local 10 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), is one of 25 people charged with numerous offences following a brutal attack by Californian police on a peaceful
Culture
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Yanagai!, Yorta Yorta, Melbourne Workers Theatre, Playbox, Andrea James, David Adamson, Bryan Andy, Lou Bennet, Lisa Maza, Tony Briggs, Judge Olney, Munarra "> Yorta Yorta! Here to stay! Yanagai! Yanagai!Melbourne Workers Theatre and
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Later this year, the American Recordings label will release a collection of Johnny Cash songs which will include a collaboration with one of the legendary country singer's greatest fans, the late Joe Strummer. The pair's version of
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EDINBURGH — COLIN FOX is a member of the Scottish Socialist Party and a member of the Scottish Parliament. He was also one of the organisers of the Edinburgh People's Festival. This article is based on an interview with Fox, conducted by SIMON
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