Graham Matthews

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Anti-war movement cannot ignore refugee issue

    BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS& MARGARITA WINDISCH The US-led war on Afghanistan is killing hundreds and displacing tens of thousands of Afghan civilians. Millions are threatened with starvation, and many of these will attempt to flee from Afghanistan in order

  • 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

  • US bombs provoke anti-war backlash

    MELBOURNE — Supporters of peace and justice sprang into action as soon as they heard that US bombing raids on Afghanistan had begun, rallying in their thousands on the evening of October 8. By far the largest action happened

  • 'Terrorism has no nationality'

    MELBOURNE — Two hundred people attended a September 18 public forum entitled "Who's to blame: Middle Eastern people or US foreign policy?". The forum was initiated by the Socialist Alliance. "Being victims of Israel's terror

  • Batman off and running

    MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance campaign for the federal seat of Batman kicked off on September 8 with a demonstration demanding that the federal government accept the Tampa refugees. The demonstration, held at the Preston

  • Socialist Alliance passes first test

    "At the beginning of the Aston by-election campaign, Socialist Alliance had one member in the electorate of Aston," the alliance's Aston campaign coordinator David Glanz told a post-election Socialist Alliance celebration on July