BY MATT RICH
MELBOURNE — Australian students have begun to organise protests and anti-war and racism coalitions around the country.
On September 19, 200 students attended a speak-out in La Trobe University's Agora condemning the US-led military
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Jorge Jorquera, the Socialist Alliance candidate for the federal seat of Gellibrand, led a hunger strike from September 21 to 22 outside Maribyrnong detention centre. The protest finished when Jorquera and supporters were attacked with a car.
BY NORM DIXON
The Zimbabwe government has unexpectedly agreed to prevent further occupations of predominantly white-owned commercial farms, reinstitute a "fair, just and sustainable" land redistribution and to restore the "rule of law". In return,
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
BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY
MOSCOW — The September 11 terrorist acts in the US shifted all other news onto the back burner, including the results of the September 9 presidential election in Belarus. But for leftists in eastern Europe, what is happening
Simon Butler, co-ordinator of the Globalise Resistance contingent for the "People's March on CHOGM".
"The Globalise Resistance contingent is designed to draw anti-corporate youth together in the protest. We took our model, in particular, from the
BY AZIZ CHOUDRY
Leaders of Pacific island states met August 16-18 at the 32nd Pacific Island Forum on the island of Nauru to discuss the creation of a regional free-trade area.
Facing imminent depletion of the high quality phosphate reserves on
Rally for refugee rights
BRISBANE — More than 150 people marched to the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs after a refugees' rights rally in Suncorp Metway Park on September 22.
The rally opposed Liberal/Labor bipartisan
BY KAMRAN ASDAR ALI
Media reports indicate that on the evening of September 14 the president, General Pervaiz Musharraf, met with his cabinet and national security team in a marathon session lasting until the early hours of the next morning.
The
We inform the entire progressive community of a milestone in the unification of the revolutionary forces in the country. The Partido ng Manggagawang Pilipino (PMP) and the Sosyalistang Partido ng Paggawa (SPP) announce their merger through a
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