BY RACHEL EVANS
MELBOURNE Braving wet and windy conditions on September 26, 45 people came to Melbourne's Federal Court to support the prosecution of 30 companies over alleged breaches of the outworker and contractor provisions of the
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BY ELIZABETH SCHULTE
CHICAGO The San Francisco Chronicle called it "a rising rumble". On October 6, opponents of George Bush's war drive against Iraq hit the streets in cities across the United States in the biggest numbers yet.
Up to
BY SHANE BENTLEY
US President George Bush has thrown his weight behind the bosses of the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) in their struggle to break the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) which covers 10,500 US west coast dock
BY LESLIE RICHMOND
ADELAIDE On October 5, some 3000 people joined a protest rally and march organised by the Network Opposing War and Racism (NOWAR) against the US-led war drive against Iraq.
Anglican archbishop Ian George, Uniting Church
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 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 GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE On October 2, the Victorian Electoral Commission received the 502nd positive response to a questionnaire it sent to all Socialist Alliance members in the state. Five-hundred positive returns were required by
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 ALEX MILNE & KIM HALPIN
ALICE SPRINGS For three days from October 5, activists from across Australia converged on the US-controlled military spy base at Pine Gap. More than 300 people made the journey to voice their anger at the Australian
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