Nick Everett

  • Thousands rally to save Ansett jobs

    Thousands of Ansett workers have rallied in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to protest the jobs and entitlements they have lost as a result of the aviation giant's collapse. In Melbourne, 4000 workers from nine different unions

  • TriStar: a victory for all workers

    SYDNEY — The 350 workers employed by the Marrickville-based car components maker TriStar Steering and Suspension won victory on August 8 in their dispute over pay and the protection of their entitlements. Militant action forced

  • INDONESIA: Police target PRD after strike wave

    BY NICK EVERETT & REBECCA MECKELBURG BANDUNG — Police have arrested six members of the radical People's Democratic Party (PRD) in West Java, in an attempt to repress the largest strike the Indonesian province has seen since the coming to power of

  • Redfern meeting initiates welfare campaign

    SYDNEY — Angry at federal budget plans to further erode access to social security and toughen "mutual obligation", local residents, indigenous community representatives, welfare recipients and Centrelink staff met in inner-city

  • Socialist Alliance establishes local campaign groups

    SYDNEY — Five local campaign groups of the newly formed Socialist Alliance held inaugural meetings across Sydney on May 15 and 16. The meetings — held in Sydney city (Ultimo), Burwood, Parramatta, Marrickville and Chatswood —

  • Socialist Alliance takes 'first step'

    SYDNEY — “When I first heard about the idea of the Socialist Alliance, these old bones straightened up a bit. I wanted to know more about it. I wanted to be able to participate with tens of thousands of others to change the

  • M1 hits the headlines

    SYDNEY — M1 Sydney's plans for a blockade of the city's financial district on May 1 took a significant step forward on March 8 with a successful media launch outside the Australian Stock Exchange's Bridge Street offices. Two

  • M1 to target 'corporate scumbags'

    BY DANNY FAIRFAX & NICK EVERETT SYDNEY — City workers are being encouraged to nominate their most hated "corporate scumbag" to be visited by a March 17 "Corporate Scumbag Tour", being organised by the M1 Sydney coalition as a prelude to the

  • Big socialist meeting discusses anti-corporate campaign

    SYDNEY — "We must work together to build a wall of public opinion against corporate greed and exploitation", Cuban Communist Party member Abelardo Cueto Sosa told the biggest meeting of left activists to be held in Sydney's

  • Chaudhry: 'No apartheid in the Pacific!'

    SYDNEY — Several hundred people gathered to hear deposed Fijian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry speak at the Marrickville Town Hall on August 12. Also speaking were Fiji Trades Union Congress general secretary Felix Anthony and

  • Community workers demand 'quality services, quality pay'

    Community workers demand 'quality services, quality pay' BY NICK EVERETT & TRISH CORCORAN SYDNEY — In the largest mobilisation of community and welfare workers in years, 1000 workers went on strike and marched through Sydney's central

  • Rally demands debt be dropped

    Rally demands debt be droppedSYDNEY — Four hundred people rallied in Hyde Park on April 1 to demand the cancellation of all debts held by the world's poorest nations. The rally was part of an international day of protest called