Pip Hinman

  • NSW Labor Council fails to split peace movement

    SYDNEY — A concerted campaign by the NSW Labor Council has not yet succeeded in splitting the peace movement in Sydney. The campaign, which was applauded by the pro-war Murdoch press, shifted into high gear in the lead-up to

  • Pilger urges support for student protesters

    SYDNEY — To enormous applause, journalist and filmmaker John Pilger made an impassioned call for people to support the Sydney high-school student anti-war protesters who have been pilloried by the corporate media. Addressing 1000

  • Carr cops an anti-war message

    SYDNEY — Protestors at the emergency rally on March 20 didn't miss an opportunity to tell NSW Premier Bob Carr what they thought of his tame-cat position on the Iraq war when they spotted his limousine stuck in traffic near

  • Why we should continue to march

    As the US-led war on Iraq began in earnest on March 20, the mass outpouring of anger across the world surprised even some seasoned campaigners. In Australia, around 90,000 people took their protest to the streets in all the

  • Socialist Alliance defends Greens

    SYDNEY — "The Murdoch-owned Sunday Telegraph's attack on the NSW Greens on March 2 reveals how nervous some are about the Greens likely successes in the NSW elections", said Sam Wainwright, Socialist Alliance candidate for

  • ACEH: Activist was jailed for 'crime' of solidarity

    Australia-based Scottish academic LESLEY McCULLOCH and US nurse Joy-Lee Sadler were arrested in Indonesian-occupied south Aceh on September 11. They were beaten, harassed and jailed for five months and four months respectively on

  • The significance of the mass anti-war protests

    More than 1 million Australians marched against war on Iraq two weekends ago. About 12 million people marched worldwide. The scale of the opposition to the US-led drive to war is unprecedented and is acting as a brake on

  • Lesley McCulloch freed

    Lesley McCulloch was freed from prison in Aceh on February 9. McCulloch, along with US nurse Joy-Lee Sadler, was arrested at a military check-point and held for five months. McCulloch was charged with violating her visa. McCulloch,

  • 'The anti-war movement is our priority'

    The Socialist Alliance has made stopping the war on Iraq and bringing back the troops the centrepiece of our NSW election campaign. The fact that this is a state election doesn't make our focus any less relevant. Both major parties

  • The power of our 'alliance of the unwilling'

    US President George Bush's "alliance of the willing" to attack Iraq is looking pretty thin: the governments of Britain's Tony Blair and John Howard don't make up for Washington's general lack of allies. Now, with Howard's popularity

  • ACEH: Solidarity campaign wins activists' release

    When Indonesian judge Asril Marwan on December 30 sentenced Joy-Lee Sadler to four months' jail and Lesley McCulloch to five months, he declared that McCulloch should have received a harsher sentence because her actions "could have

  • Erskineville public housing estate saved

    SYDNEY — A concerted campaign for several months by residents and Erskineville Housing Estate tenants forced the NSW state government on November 19 to reject a housing department redevelopment proposal which would have adversely