BY STEVE CILIA
MELBOURNE The September 16 meeting of the Socialist Alliance's
Melbourne branch preselected long-term anti-racist campaigner Arun Pradhan
as its candidate for the seat of Melbourne in the next state election.
Pradhan
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BY STUART MUNCKTON
CANBERRA In a low-key Australian National University Students Association
(ANUSA) elections, held September 9-12, the Evolve ticket won all executive
positions, National Union of Students (NUS) delegate positions and
[The following statement was issued by the national executive of the
Socialist Alliance on September 18.]
We are approaching the moment when the richest country in the world,
with the most powerful armed forces and most destructive arsenal
MELBOURNE Fifty
people crammed into Hendersons Cafe to launch the West Welcomes Refugees
postcard campaign on September 21. The postcards, designed by Viv Mehes
and featuring students from Footscray City College, allow Western suburbs
BY ALEX MILNE
MELBOURNE
The Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry hosted
a conference on construction industry safety on September 19 and 20. The
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), the
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE Readers of the September 14 Age newspaper may have thought they were about to get a real inside story when they saw the front-page teaser: "Craig Johnston: The Making of a Middle Class Revolutionary".
But they would
BY ALISON THORNE
[The following is the text of a talk given at a panel at the International
Socialist Organisation's Marxism 2002 conference held in Melbourne, September
6-8. Alison Thorne spoke on behalf of the Freedom Socialist Party, one
BY DALE McKINLEY
JOHANNESBURG In a show of people's power, 6000 residents of KwaMasiza Hostel in Sebokeng reoccupied their homes on September 12 after being forcibly evicted a day earlier by thugs employed by a company partly owned by African
Victory for Samsonite workers
On September 13, the last 29 workers illegally sacked by a Thai subcontractor of US luggage giant Samsonite were reinstated. The company gave assurances that it will not "interfere with trade union activities" or
SYDNEY More
than 100 protesters rallied in the western Sydney suburb of Auburn on September
20, opposing any war on Iraq. The protest was organised by the Socialist
Alliance, which decided on September 17 to run local activist Roberto