Chris Spindler

  • Green Alliance to stand in SA elections

    Green Alliance to stand in SA electionsADELAIDE — Addressing the desperate need for alternative political forces to be standing against both the Labor and Liberal parties, Green Alliance will run a campaign in the

  • Chair of Reconciliation Council speaks

    ADELAIDE — Patrick Dodson, chairperson of the Aboriginal Reconciliation Council, spoke to more than 200 students and staff at Flinders University on August 18 on the results of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in

  • Brian Rooney

    Brian RooneyADELAIDE — Former State Secretary of the Socialist Party of Australia, Brian Rooney, died of cancer in Adelaide on August 13. He was 58. Brian was a long term political activist, joining the Communist

  • South Africa election fund launched

    South Africa election fund launchedADELAIDE — Speakers at the launch of Australians for Democracy In South Africa (ADISA) made an impassioned plea for funds for the ANC election fund and the voter education campaign

  • Call to 'ground Garuda'

    Call to 'ground Garuda'ADELAIDE — On August 6 the Campaign for an Independent East Timor (CIET) held a protest vigil outside Garuda airlines highlighting the gross human rights violations of the Indonesian

  • The rural crisis: thanks to the banks

    "It seems incredible that in supposedly the most efficient farming sector in the world, people are starving on their own property. In a number of centres there are already breakfast programs starting so that children will

  • Bank evicts farmer

    Bank evicts farmerADELAIDE — The South East Action Group staged a blockade of a fellow farmer's property on June 3 after Westpac bank foreclosed on the mortgage and moved to evict the farmer and family. The bank,

  • People's Party win 'best option'

    People's Party win 'best option'ADELAIDE — "The best case scenario" in the current Cambodian elections "would be a clear win for the Cambodian People's Party", Daryl Bullen told a Democratic Socialist forum here on

  • Organising against racism

    ADELAIDE — Three rallies have so far been organised by the Anti-Racism Alliance in response to National Action's public display of racist propaganda in Old Parliament House. The display at the

  • Walk-off at submarine site

    Walk-off at submarine siteAdelaide — Some 200 Automotive, Metal and Engineering Union members at the Osborne submarine construction site struck on February 11 after the Australian Submarine Corporation classified

  • Making politics musically

    Making politics musicallyIf you have the chance to see Seven Sisters play at the Aboriginal Women's Music Festival in Sydney in December, don't miss it. You'll be treated, as the Adelaide Cultural Dissent crowd was on

  • A good time to flee Adelaide

    ADELAIDE — Grand Prix time has to be one of the most wasteful, stinking, noisy, dangerous and hateful weekends to spend in Adelaide. There are fly-overs of air force planes, every shop displaying "their" car