Bruce Marlowe

  • Geelong socialists stress climate action, participation

    In their first venture into local government elections, Geelong Socialist Alliance candidates Chris Johnson, Bronwyn Jennings and Lisa Gleeson are letting a fresh breeze into the stuffy room of Victorian municipal politics.

  • 'Remember David's death by pulling out the troops

    The Socialist Alliance’s anti-war campaign coordinator, Pip Hinman, has offered her condolences to the family of trooper David Pearce, recently killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan’s Oruzgan province.

  • Resources for firefighting, not for war!

    "Major national resources, including use of the military, should be urgently allocated to fighting the current bushfire crisis, instead of wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on sending troops to support the US war against

  • Showdown looms over MUA strike

    SYDNEY — The crippling role of the federal Workplace Relations Act has again been underlined after industrial relations minister Peter Reith admitted he advised Patrick boss Chris Corrigan not to pay Port Botany wharfies because

  • MUA solidarity petition launched

    MUA solidarity petition launchedRank-and-file unionists and concerned community activists have launched a petition demanding that the ACTU and local trades and labour councils seriously boost their solidarity effort with the

  • CPSU incumbents returned on reduced vote

    CPSU incumbents returned on reduced voteThe Wendy Caird leadership of the Community and Public Service Union (CPSU) has been returned in elections for the main national office-holder positions in the union. With over 95%

  • Struggle to save CES enters crucial phase

    On October 30, workers in the Department of Social Security, and the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs will be asked to vote for a campaign of lightning bans. The Howard government has rejected the

  • CPSU leaders 'forget' to count DEETYA resolution

    CPSU leaders 'forget' to count DEETYA resolutionOver the last two weeks, Community and Public Sector Union members in the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs have been voting on how to respond to the

  • CPSU meetings to vote national strike

    The Community and Public Sector Union, which covers workers in the Australian Public Service, is to hold a round of mass meetings on July 23 to vote on a CPSU national executive motion for a 24-hour stoppage onr July 25. The move

  • CPSU campaign struggles to its feet

    After the recent round of Community and Public Sector Union mass meetings, bans are now being placed in many areas of the Australian Public Service. The bans include cutting off information to government ministers, withholding

  • Food poisoning as Labor cuts inspection services

    The South Australian food poisoning tragedy follows food safety cuts by Liberal state governments. But these cuts have developed alongside federal Labor government attacks on quarantine and food inspection

  • Woodchipping: Who profits? Who pays?

    What are the real economics of Australia's woodchipping industry? Answering this apparently simple question is no simple matter, because much of the corporate data is secret, and vital government information has been declared