Susan Price

  • Labor MPs shut down local anti-war stall

    BY SUSAN PRICE& LIAM MITCHELL SYDNEY &#151 On November 2, members of the Labor Party attempted to have the Leichhardt Council close down a Socialist Alliance anti-war stall outside Norton Plaza. The Socialist Alliance (SA) has held a stall

  • Woomera protest a terrorist act?

    SYDNEY — Senate hearings had confirmed that the recent refugees' rights protest at Woomera, during which fences at the Woomera detention centre were pulled down, would be classified as a "terrorist act", under legislation currently

  • IWD actions to oppose war and racism

    The United States and other First World governments are using the "war on terrorism" as a pretext to launch an offensive against the peoples of the Third World. All around the world, governments are attacking working people's living

  • PHILIPPINES: 'End imperialist globalisation'

    The unity statement of the International South Group Network included some far-reaching elements: "The 'race to the bottom' character of economic globalisation ... may have increased the participation of the female labour force in

  • PHILIPPINES: Globalisation worse for women

    MANILA — While the spin doctors of neo-liberal globalisation promote its supposed "benefits" to women, participants from 13 countries at the Asian Workshop on Women and Globalisation arrived at an alternative conclusion. The

  • PHILIPPINES: Thousands protest war, globalisation

    MANILA — November 30 — Bonifacio Day, and this year the 129th birthday of one of the Philippines' national proletarian heroes — became a day and night of mobilisation and protest by radical forces against the government of

  • Worldwide support for Jakarta conference participants

    BY VIV MILEY & SUSAN PRICE Progressive forces from around the world spoke out and took action as soon as news of the police and militia raid on the international solidarity conference spread. In Canada, snap protests were organised across the

  • Bracks, police cop it at Labor conference

    BY TONY ILTIS& SUSAN PRICE MELBOURNE — Labor Premier Steve Bracks had lied about protester violence at the S11 blockade of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting, a protest of 200 outside the ALP's state conference on October 21 was told. Paddy

  • Unionists Against Corporate Tyranny on the web

    Unionists Against Corporate Tyranny has launched a new web site which, according to site editor Melanie Sjoberg, will help broaden the campaign against corporate-led globalisation. "The site has only been up for a week", said

  • S11: 'We made it work by all sticking together'

    The S11 protests against the World Economic Forum were a triumph for the Australian left, writes Susan Price. But it was a tough job to put them together and took enormous efforts of many different people from many different backgrounds.

  • S11: Journalists to take legal action against police

    MELBOURNE — The Media, Arts and Entertainment Alliance (MEAA) announced on September 14 that it would support its members taking legal action against the Victoria Police for its use of violent tactics during the September 11-13