Tim Stewart

  • 300 attend anti-war meeting

    BRISBANE — Three hundred people attended a September 14 forum organised by Australians for a Just Peace around the slogan “our grief is not a cry for war”. The forum was chaired by ABC radio presenter Sandy McCutcheon,

  • Johnston addresses packed meeting

    BRISBANE — To a packed Kurilpa Hall of 90 people, Craig Johnston, Victorian state secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), gave a gripping account of union struggle Workers First-style. Organised by the

  • Brisbane protests on M1

    BY TIM STEWART & JULIE GJENGEDAL BRISBANE — More than 400 people protested on May 1, as two separate actions demanded workers' and refugees' rights and freedom from corporate tyranny. Two hundred activists arrived at the city's main immigration

  • Protesters call for Australia's explusion from Commonwealth

    Public outcry and protests against racist laws, human rights violations and Third World debt have dogged heads of government over the past 30 years during the biannual Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, and as CHOGM meets next

  • Anti-racist peace march, counter-conference planned

    BY TIM STEWART & MIKE BYRNE BRISBANE — Spurred on by the threat of US military strikes, the CHOGM Action Network (CAN) has decided to add the slogans "No to war!" and "No to racism!" to the October 6 march on the Commonwealth Heads of Government

  • Beattie fails to show for CHOGM debate

    BRISBANE — Despite the Queensland premier's challenge to publicly debate anti-CHOGM protesters on the issue of globalisation, Peter Beattie failed to show at the launch of the CHOGM Action Network on September 5. Under the theme

  • Bows, bees and surf skis illegal at CHOGM protests

    In case you were wondering what to bring along to the protests outside the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane on October 6, the Queensland goverment has issued a list of prohibited items under special police powers

  • March on CHOGM gains momentum

    BY EWAN SAUNDERS & TIM STEWART BRISBANE — Plans for a massive march on the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in October are gaining momentum, with plans by community groups and environmental and social justice organisations in the CHOGM

  • Beattie forms CHOGM negotiating committee

    BRISBANE — Nervous about activist plans to protest at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane on October 6, on July 2 the state ALP government announced on July 2 a high level "mediation unit" to negotiate with

  • CHOGM Action Network launched, plans march

    BRISBANE — Members of 20 organisations came together on June 26 to plan protests outside the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane. The meeting unanimously decided that a march "to the gates of CHOGM" on the

  • Socialist Alliance will help 'win victory'

    BRISBANE — “Twenty-nine years ago, the Labor Party came to Musgrave Park and promised to do something for Aboriginal people, 29 years later and nothing's changed”, indigenous activist Sam Watson told the 135 people who

  • 'The people will win!'

    BRISBANE — At times, the scenes outside the stock exchange on 123 Eagle St on May 1 resembled one huge street party, with chanting, cheering, speech-making, dancing, and chalking up slogans on the pavement, all taking place in