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Reclaim the Night I This year's Reclaim the Night rally in Melbourne highlighted the need to raise politics in the women's movement. The speakers talked either of their own personal experiences of abuse, or of the abuse of women in general. There
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS MELBOURNE — During an October 25 interview on Radio 3AW, Socialist Alliance Senate candidate for Victoria Alison Thorne faced a barrage of abuse and accusation. Thorne was invited by 3AW drive-time host Steve Price to talk
BY EVA CHENG Despite rhetoric to the contrary, the Bush regime has shown breathtaking disregard for the growing civilian casualties that its round-the-clock bombing in Afghanistan has inflicted on a long-traumatised and now-terrorised population.
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In GLW #469, a picture of Naomi Arrowsmith from the WA South Coast Waters and Rivers Commission was mistakenly used to illustrate an article about Port Kembla Community and Public Sector Union organiser Naomi Arrowsmith. GLW apologises for the
BY ADAM MACLEAN A mutiny by his hand-picked senior managers at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has sealed the fate of Australia's self-styled "mini-media mogul", managing director Jonathan Shier, who resigned at the ABC's board meeting on
The war on Afghanistan has had an enormous impact not only on the country itself but on the whole region around it, especially on neighbouring Pakistan. Reprinted here is an interview with Farooq Tariq, general secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan,
BY SARAH PEART BALLARAT — "Despite making a profit of almost a million dollars in the first six months of this year, Nestle has made the decision to close its Maryborough plant. This will directly result in the loss of 140 jobs and more than 500
BY SEAN HEALY While the choice of an autocratic Persian Gulf shiekdom as venue will prevent a repeat of the massive protests which dogged its 1999 Seattle summit, trade negotiators from the world's richest nations are in for no less stormy a time
BY DAVE HOLMES @box text intr = Every demonisation campaign undertaken by US imperialism has taken its toll as various prominent left-wingers have been taken in — or caved in — and have swung over to support US policy. It happened in the
SYDNEY - Ansett workers, anti-nuclear reactor campaigners and Socialist Alliance members were joined by 80 refugee rights activists at a demonstration outside the Liberal Party's election launch on October 28. Liberal loyalists were forced to run a
BY NICK FREDMAN LISMORE — In the contest for the northern NSW seat of Page, a dozen candidates are arguing issues from diverse standpoints ranging from nutty right-wing conspiracy theories to revolutionary socialism. On the issue of the war,