Alex Bainbridge

  • Socialists close to registering

    HOBART — The Socialist Alliance is half-way to the arduous task of Tasmanian electoral registration. In a blatant deterrent to political involvement, Tasmanian electoral law requires 100 members to be prepared to have their

  • Union, Incat appeal for federal assistance

    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

  • Blockade to save the Weld

    HOBART — Dozens of activists are maintaining a "Weld River community picket". The blockade, which entered its 12th day on February 15, has stopped work on a forestry road and bridge into the Weld Valley in southern Tasmania.

  • Cracks showing in the major parties

    HOBART — The ALP and the Liberals in Tasmania have both been rocked this year by scandals reflecting in different ways the ongoing crisis of legitimacy of the major capitalist parties. This demonstrates that the solid

  • Hobart council denies permit to Green Left Weekly

    HOBART — On December 17 the Hobart City Council denied a permit for the sale of Green Left Weekly in Elizabeth Street Mall. It was the third time the council had denied such a permit in little over three weeks. The council

  • Opposition to GLW mall ban grows

    HOBART — Two weeks after the Hobart City Council banned the distribution of Green Left Weekly in the Elizabeth Street Mall, the paper continues to be distributed there daily. As of December 9, there had been no arrests or fines

  • Rocking the war

    HOBART — The socialist youth group Resistance organised a successful "Rock Against War" on December 1, with the support of local "original bands" opposed to the US-led "war on terrorism". Pictured is Lab A. Photo by Alex Bainbridge.From Green

  • Council maintains Green Left Weekly ban

    HOBART — A Hobart City Council committee decided on November 15 to recommend a motion to the full council that would "continue to refuse requests to sell and distribute newspapers and other goods [in the Elizabeth Street mall]

  • Why Australia should open its borders to Afghan refugees

    Few people could admire the morality of deliberately setting fire to someone's house and then locking all the doors and windows to prevent the occupants from escaping to safety. Neither action is justifiable by itself and both

  • Outrage at police spying on anti-war protest

    BY KAMALA EMANUEL& ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — About 250 people attended an October 20 rally to protest the US-led war against Afghanistan and Australia's involvement in the war. That same day the Hobart Mercury editorialised against police

  • Pacifism: not useful in the struggle against war

    The leaflet advertising the well-attended September 30 "Peace Picnic" in Hobart said "a peaceful heart leads to a peaceful person; a peaceful person leads to a peaceful family; a peaceful family leads to a peaceful community; a

  • Socialists Challenge ALP at Tas Uni

    HOBART — ALP member Ted Alexander won the 2001 Tasmania University Union presidential election by a landslide, capturing 59% of the vote. Promising to provide more free beer and improved services Alexander defeated Greens