BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
PERTH I've been knocked off by the Tories, I've been knocked off
by stinking grubby builders, I've been knocked off by the [building industry]
task force, but it was a bit hard to cop getting knocked off by the Labor
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BY DANIEL JARDINE
MELBOURNE Meeting on October 3-6, the national council of the National
Tertiary Education Industry Union discussed its agenda for the fourth round
of enterprise bargaining with universities. The pattern bargaining
BY JAMES CAULFIELD
CANBERRA Three hundred people gathered in Civic on October 11 for a rally against the US drive to war on Iraq. The event was organised by the ACT Network Opposing War. Speakers included ACT Labor MLA John Hargreaves, health
A cosmetic change
Like most ALP conferences during the past three decades, the special
rules conference held on October 5-6 was a carefully stage managed affair.
It was designed to bolster the image of federal Labor leader Simon
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE
In a massive outpouring of anger against proposed Australian support for
war on Iraq, 45,000 people rallied on October 13. Jammed shoulder to shoulder
across several city blocks, the participants marched
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON If Tony Blair uses the royal prerogative, "the absolute power of kings", to join George Bush's attack on Iraq, he acts in a manner no different, in principle and deed, from Germany's unprovoked attacks that ignited the
Socialist Alliance I
The value and necessity of a united response from the left on key issues has been borne out during the current debate around asylum seekers. The Socialist Alliance has consistently been present in (and often driving) community
Amerika Psycho: Behind Uncle Sam's Mask of SanityBy Richard NevilleOcean Press, 2002126 pages, $18.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
"The wounded Goliath" (the US after the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001) "is on a rampage armed to the
BY ALANA KERR
SYDNEY The US war on the people of Iraq has persisted since 1991, an October 9 public meeting in Bondi Junction, hosted by the Eastern Sydney branch of the Socialist Alliance, was told.
Layla Mohammad, from the Worker
BY MAX LANE
On October 5, Indonesian police arrested Ricky Tamba, secretary-general of the Popular Youth Movement (GPK), an urban poor youth organisation that acts in political solidarity with the Peoples Democratic Party (PRD).
Tamba was
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Fifty Australasian Correctional Management guards at Port Hedland immigration detention centre ended a 12-day strike on October 6, after reaching an agreement with ACM management on increased staffing levels during day and night
BY JOHN PERCY
On September 20, the Bush administration released a new National Security Strategy (NSS) document. The document justifies US aggression on a world scale pre-emptive strikes, "regime change", unilateral action. "We will not
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