Graham Matthews

  • Unionists, parties discuss working-class politics

    MELBOURNE — Eighty-five people participated in a trade union seminar sponsored by the Socialist Alliance on May 11. The seminar's highlight was the presentations by union officials and political party representatives on unions

  • M1 Melbourne: 10,000 workers strike for global justice

    MELBOURNE — More than 10,000 people took to the streets of Melbourne on May Day, protesting against attacks on workers' and refugees' rights and in solidarity with the Palestinian people. The protests' success was a step

  • Palestinians mobilise for justice

    MELBOURNE — In a demonstration aimed at "breaking the silence" over Israel's murderous aggression against the Palestinian people, more than 1000 Palestinians and their supporters massed on the steps of Victoria's parliament on

  • RAC-Vic calls for June 2 NDA

    MELBOURNE — At its March 19 meeting the central Melbourne Refugee Action Collective (RAC-Vic) endorsed the idea of a national day of action for refugee rights for Sunday June 2. While not discussing details of the action, RAC

  • Goolengook forest blockade attacked

    MELBOURNE — The Victorian Labor government sent police and environment department staff to dismantle the Goolengook forest blockade in East Gippsland in the early morning on March 5. The blockade has been the longest

  • M1 Melbourne gains support

    MELBOURNE — May 1 is set to become "no-war May Day" after the February 5 meeting of the M1 Alliance. Adopting a call to action, the alliance is planning protests based around three slogans: no war on refugees; no war on the

  • Large turn out for Pilger meetings

    BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS& NICK EVERETT There were no spare seats at the Capitol in central Melbourne as 650 people crammed the theatre for an evening with filmmaker and journalist John Pilger on December 15. The occasion was the big-screen premiere of

  • Craig Johnston: 'Continue the fight for a just society'

    "It's not going to be all that easy [under the third-term of the Coalition government] but we're just going to have to fight on. I'm sure the militant unions will be up to it", Craig Johnston, Victorian state secretary of the

  • MALAYSIA: Free Tian Chua!

    Tian Chua was detained by Malaysian authorities on April 10 under the Internal Security Act which has been in force in that country since 1960. Under the ISA, the Mahathir government is empowered to jail any person without trial

  • Militant trade unionists under attack

    MELBOURNE — Premier Steve Bracks sent a letter to Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national secretary Doug Cameron on November 29, complaining about the actions of the Victorian AMWU's Workers' First leadership. Bracks

  • Shock-jock attacks Socialist Alliance candidate

    MELBOURNE — During an October 25 interview on Radio 3AW, Socialist Alliance Senate candidate for Victoria Alison Thorne faced a barrage of abuse and accusation. Thorne was invited by 3AW drive-time host Steve Price to talk

  • Quantock and socialist salads

    MELBOURNE — More than 170 people enjoyed a lively night of fun and socialist politics at the Socialist Alliance's anti-corporate festival at Daniher Hall, Carlton, on October 20. The festival raised $3000. Comedian and