GLW issue 573, published 2004-03-03.

News Briefs #1

MELBOURNE — On February 23, 200 people attended a rally at Telstra's Melbourne headquarters, called by the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), to protest against the planned transfer of information technology jobs to India. CPSU national

A woman's place is in the struggle: Howard blocks domestic violence campaign

A federal government-funded advertising campaign against domestic violence has been shelved indefinitely. At a cost of several million dollars, the series of advertisements designed to target emotional and physical abuse in young people's

Sam Watson calls for action

Across Australia, Indigenous activists and their supporters have offered solidarity to the residents of Redfern Block. Brisbane Murri activist Sam Watson spoke to Green Left Weekly's Marce Cameron about the reaction. Watson, who will stand for the

The Redfern Block vs developer greed

Susan Price, Sydney The death of 17-year-old TJ Hickey on February 15, and the subsequent explosion of community anger in Redfern — sparked by police provocation on top of decades of police violence and racism — has been seized upon by NSW

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Australian News

Bracks sets course to attack unions

Stuart Martin, Melbourne Amid a howl of calls from employers for Victorian Premier Steve Bracks' Labor government to get tough on unions because the state is supposedly heading into industrial chaos, the government has threatened to wage war on

Refugee messages for IWD

MELBOURNE — On February 20, Socialist Alliance activists picketed the Maribyrnong Detention Centre to highlight the plight of female detainees. Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of Gellibrand, Linda Waldron told Green Left Weekly, "Many

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International News

FRANCE: United radical left campaign gathers momentum

Murray Smith, Paris The united campaign being waged by France's two largest revolutionary socialist parties — the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) and Workers Struggle (LO) — for the March 21 regional elections is getting a good reception.

UNITED STATES: We won't accept 'separate but equal'

Separate is not equal. That's the message of the gay civil rights movement that has burst forth across the US, inspired by the fight for the right of gays and lesbians to marry. Elizabeth Schulte, Steve Trussell and Sherry Wolf report. Thousands of

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Editorial

No means no — even to footy players

"Our players are innocent" screamed the front page of Rupert Murdoch's Sydney Daily Telegraph on February 26. The accompanying article was about the alleged gang rape of a Coffs Harbour woman by up to six players from the Canterbury Bulldogs rugby

Cultural Dissent

The Petrograd of the West

REVIEWED BY ALEX MILLER Red ClydesideAlistair Hulett and Dave SwarbrickRed Rattler The extraordinary industrial and political militancy in the west of Scotland in the second decade of the 20th Century led Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir

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