BY MARISOL SALINAS
MELBOURNE — Community radio station 3CR is holding its annual radiothon from June 2 to June 15. This year's theme is "3CR — the voice of dissent, a voice for peace" and the station is hoping to raise $130,000.
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Emergency pickets were held across Australia on May 23, as part of an international day of action for democracy and justice in Aceh. Protests were held in Adelaide, Darwin, Melbourne, Newcastle and Sydney, as well as in the US, Germany, Holland,
BY MARGARITA WINDISCH
MELBOURNE — More than 300 people packed the Brunswick Town Hall for Vic Little's memorial service on May 20.
Born in Mildura in 1914, the son of a poor mining family, Vic knew from an early age on what "struggling" meant.
BY PATRICK BOND
HAVANA — Visitors experiencing Cuba for the first time cannot help but remark upon how the economic and political pressures being imposed on the country seem untenable. What would be possible in a just world, given Cuban society's
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"Russian President Vladimir Putin openly mocks America's failed efforts to find chemical, biological or nuclear weapons in Iraq... It doesn't matter... even if Iraq proves utterly free of WMD — or if it merely possesses a
BY SUE BOLTON
MELBOURNE — At the national Socialist Alliance conference, held on May 10-11, the delegates included a high proportion of trade unionists.
These included former Victorian secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The May 12 terrorist attacks on the al Hamra, Jadawal and Vinnell compounds in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, which killed more than 90 people, were not merely assaults on "symbols" of the imperialist West. The bombers were also
BY GRAHAM WILLIAMS
Still in the early stages of their pattern bargaining campaign, Victorian metal workers have already made major advances towards winning a 36-hour work week. Around 100 companies have now signed the Australian Manufacturing
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Matrix ReloadedWritten and directed by Larry and Andy WachowskiWith Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence FishburneAt cinemas every-bloody-where
Recently, the US anti-war coalition Not In Our Name issued a leaflet,
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As reported in 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly #536, on May 1, 160 intellectuals and artists — including Nobel Prize winners Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rigoberta Menchu, Aldolfo Perez Esquivel and Nadine Gordimer — launched an
SYDNEY — On May 19, two dozen activists, most members of the UTS queer group, gathered outside the Queen Victoria Building to call for the NSW parliament to pass a bill that would equalise the age of consent for gay and heterosexual sex. The bill
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