Marcel Cameron

  • S11: Training camp prepares activists

    Training camp prepares activists for S11MELBOURNE — Forty activists attended a lively "socialist training camp" near Ballarat in country Victoria to prepare for the September 11-13 blockade of the World Economic Forum summit

  • Victorian Labor: more of the same

    MELBOURNE — Country Victoria hasn't finished taking revenge on the Liberal and National parties just yet, as was shown by the election of Labor candidate Denise Allen in the May 13 by-election for the state seat of

  • Is a timber worker-environmentalist alliance possible?

    MELBOURNE — On February 21, the longest running blockade of logging operations in East Gippsland was brutally attacked by 50 men wielding axes, sawn timber and iron bars. The camp at Goolengook was destroyed and 13

  • Greens back Labor deal on forests

    PERTH — Now that the regional forest agreement (RFA) has been signed, the Western Australian Forest Alliance (WAFA) and the Greens (WA) have launched a campaign to convince people to vote against Liberal candidates in

  • 5000 'reclaim our forests'

    5000 'reclaim our forests'PERTH — Five thousand people streamed into the Perth Entertainment Centre on May 30 to attend a "Reclaim our Forests" public meeting called by the Western Australian Forest Alliance (WAFA). The

  • 5000 rally for the WA forests

    5000 rally for the WA forestsPerth — Five thousand people marched on Parliament House on March 9 to demand an end to the logging of old-growth forest in WA. The lively protest was called by the WA Forest Alliance, an umbrella

  • Resistance surprises Hanson

    PERTH — On September 14, Resistance was tipped off that Pauline Hanson and her media circus was about to make a staged appearance in the busy Hay Street Mall. We raced out of the Resistance Centre, down to

  • Young socialists plan campaigns

    Young socialists plan campaigns By Jacquie Moon, Bronwyn Jennings and Marcel Cameron MELBOURNE — More than 220 activists gathered in Melbourne on July 11-13 for the 27th national conference of the socialist youth organisation Resistance. Under

  • For student occupations, not stunts

    MELBOURNE — Around 5000 students and staff took to the streets here on April 1. It was the largest student mobilisation in Melbourne for some time and shows the potential for organised opposition to the

  • Students fight to save their course

    MELBOURNE — Students enrolled in the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology's Bachelor of Social Science (Psych-Environmental Assessment and Policy) (SEAP) are fighting to save their course from extinction, as university

  • Up-front fees at VCA

    Up-front fees at VCAMELBOURNE — The Victorian College of the Arts administration has attempted to introduce up-front fees for local undergraduate students, following months of speculation and no attempt to involve students

  • Student movement: why we need to discuss strategy

    MELBOURNE — On October 20, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology decided to proceed with the implementation of up-front fees. The decision ignores the recent referendum in which 10,431 students and staff, 80% of