BY CHRIS BAMBERY& ALEX CALLINICOS
LONDON It is with deep regret that we must inform you of the death on September 17 of Duncan Hallas. Duncan was one of the founders of the International Socialist Tendency (IST).
He supported Tony Cliff
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BY AMIE HAMILTON
PERTH On September 17, the University of Western Australia Student Guild decided at a special council meeting to hold a referendum on October 22 on whether or not UWA should be declared a refugee safe-haven.
The Student
BY JOCHEN STAY
BERLIN Looking back now at the promises made by the German Green Party and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) during the 1998 election campaign, it is clear that the record of the SPD-Green coalition government on nuclear power
And ain't i a woman: Fighting for abortion in the ACT
Since anti-abortion laws were removed from the criminal code on August
21, the Australian Capital Territory has had the most progressive abortion
laws in Australia. These laws
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY Against the backdrop of a looming US-led war on Iraq, some 300 activists participated in the first Sydney Social Forum on September 20-21.
The SSF hosted 65 workshops and six feature panels. Topics discussed included
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Australian government speaks proudly of this countrys history of resettling large numbers of refugees (numbering 600,000 since World War II), keen to present an image of Australia as a country that opens its arms to those who
ADELAIDE: Picket against war on Iraq. Saturday October 28, noon. Outside foreign minister Alexander Downer's office, 100 King William Street, city. To get involved in the campaign against war on Iraq, phone NOWAR on (08) 8332 4861.
BRISBANE: Rally
[The following is the editorial from the September issue of Workers
Liberty magazine. The Workers Liberty group is one of eight organisations
affiliated to the Socialist Alliance.]
Workers' Liberty has been arguing that the Socialist
BY CHRIS WILLIAMS
WOLLONGONG Illawarra Greens candidate Michael Organ won an historic
15% of the vote in the Wollongong lord mayoral by-election on September
14. The humiliating defeat inflicted on ALP candidate Bob Proudfoot, who
won
The right medicine
Regarding John Percy's article, "DSP discusses major left unity initiative" (GLW #508) on the DSP's national executive's September 2 decision to propose to its membership to liquidate publicly in 2003, and put all available
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