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Sydney Palm Sunday committee continues exclusion policy

BY PIP HINMAN The last time I was prevented from attending a political meeting was in Indonesia last June. The paramilitary police, together with their right-wing militia friends, shut down the Jakarta Asia Pacific People's Solidarity Conference

ZIMBABWE: 'No to dictatorship, no to neo-liberal poverty'

BY TAFADZWA CHOTO HARARE — Around 1500-2000 people mobilised on February 15 under the slogan, "No to dictatorship, no to neo-liberal poverty". Earlier that day, the High Court had refused hear the organisers' urgent application against the

Free speech defended

BY CHRIS ATKINSON DARWIN — There are not many places in Darwin for young people to hang out. Casuarina shopping mall is the main place. But the centre's management and its private security firm, Group 4, are often less than welcoming of young

Action updates

Cuban tours MELBOURNE — More than 60 people met on February 20 for a public forum titled "From Cuba to Argentina: popular resistance to war and neo-liberal globalisation". Barbara Cantero, a representative of the Cuban Communist Youth (UJC),

Tertiary education union prepares for attacks

BY SUE BULL& JEREMY SMITH The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is a young union by Australian standards. Formed in 1995 from five existing unions, it now represents more than 25,000 workers in post-secondary education institutions. The NTEU

SCOTLAND: Socialist youth group founded

BY SARAH PEART GLASGOW — Fifty delegates attended the founding conference of the Scottish Socialist Party's youth network, Scottish Socialist Youth, on February 9. A central campaign for the SSY will be a campaign to legalise cannabis. Two very

Museworthy: The Unshared

Museworthy: The Unshared Our hearts are shrinking to fit our leader's chestThe press have been speaking with him againand he fills their papers and screens with wordswhich excuse himIn whose eyes?Does anyone look?From his hands grow the shadows

Union, Incat appeal for federal assistance

BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — Manufacturing union organiser Greg Cooper joined a delegation of business leaders on February 22 to appeal to the federal government for financial assistance to shipbuilding company Incat. The union's call for

Refugee solidarity grows in north NSW

BY BERNIE WUNSCH LISMORE — The refugee solidarity movement in the Northern Rivers region has grown rapidly. Around 400 people attended pro-refugee meetings in the space of four days. The February 15 launch of the Lismore chapter of

People's inquiry reveals government lies

BY TAMARA PEARSON SYDNEY — Sister Susan Connolly has counted 22 lies about refugees that have been spread by the federal government, she told the "People vs Philip Ruddock" public meeting held in Granville Town Hall on February 20. Organised by

The most disturbing lie of all

BY SARAH STEPHEN Every asylum seeker has the right to a lawyer, don't they? That's what the law says. Section 256 of the 1958 Migration Act states: "Where a person is in immigration detention ... the person responsible for his or her immigration

M1 Melbourne gains support

BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS MELBOURNE — May 1 is set to become "no-war May Day" after the February 5 meeting of the M1 Alliance. Adopting a call to action, the alliance is planning protests based around three slogans: no war on refugees; no war on the