SAN FRANCISCO - On September 11 I woke up at 5.30am as I normally do before going to work at United Airlines. As I was eating breakfast watching the morning TV news, I was shocked to see a huge hole in the side of one of the two towers of the World
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
In comparison to the number of refugees arriving in the United States or Europe, the number of refugees arriving on Australia's shores is a mere trickle, yet the Howard government continues to whip up a frenzied state of fear
BY SARAH PEART
MELBOURNE — On the first anniversary of the September 11-13 protest against the World Economic Forum, anti-corporate activists organised an all-day protest outside the city's main Nike store. It was the 26th successive week of
BY KAREN FLETCHER
In the wake of the terrorist bombings in New York and Washington there has been pressure to cancel planned protests against the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane next month.
The CHOGM Action Network (CAN) has
BY PETER JOHNSTON
DARWIN — Larrikiah elder June Mills has been pre-selected as the Socialist Alliance's candidate for the Senate in the Northern Territory.
Mills, who has previously run as a Senate candidate for the NT Greens, will be joined on
BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
For several months, activists in Brisbane have been busy organising for the protests at the October 6 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
"We have been campaigning on campuses and on the streets and have found significant
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People's movements across the
BY GRAHAM WILLIAMS
GEELONG — "For too long now ordinary workers have had to suffer while governments, both Liberal and Labor, have implemented their big business policies. It's time that workers had an opportunity to stand up", says Tim Gooden,
(S)Hell in Nigeria
The Royal Dutch/Shell Group, commonly knowN as Shell, controls over 1,700 companies and is one of the largest producers of petroleum and related products in the world. Some of its largest operations are in Nigeria, where it
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance campaign for the federal seat of Batman kicked off on September 8 with a demonstration demanding that the federal government accept the Tampa refugees.
The demonstration, held at the Preston
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