BY SIMON BUTLER
SYDNEY Dozens of high school student activists from Sydney, Wollongong and the NSW Central Coast have pledged to support the November 14 march and high-school walkout against the impending war on Iraq and the exploitative
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Socialist Alliance
In her letter (GLW #513) regarding the Democratic Socialist Party's proposal to cease operating as a public party and build the Socialist Alliance, Angela Budai argues that this will create the perception that the Socialist
BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY On November
1, the organising coalition for the November 14 rally against the World
Trade Organisation (WTO) decided against a march. Instead, the coalition
will leave it up to different contingents to hold their own
BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY
MOSCOW On the evening of October 23, all of Russia's television channels interrupted their broadcasts to report that a group of Chechen fighters had seized the Moscow theatre centre where the musical Nord-Ost was playing.
SYDNEY Around 1000 people
enjoyed themselves at the inaugural Rock 4 Refugees concert on the afternoon
of October 27. The concert was held at Henson Park, Marrickville. Among
the bands that performed were Mental As Anything (pictured), the
BY JANET BURSTALL
While Workers Liberty welcomes the Democratic Socialist Party's intentions to put far more of its resources into the Socialist Alliance (SA), we believe that there other measures that the alliance itself needs to take, to become a
BY JAMES CRAFTI
MELBOURNE Are all Aussies heartless bastards? This was the question
that was thrashed out at the third annual Green Left Weekly comedy
debate. Almost 200 people crowded into the Brunswick Town Hall on October
25 to find
BY NORM DIXON
SYDNEY - The federal minister for trade, Mark Vaile, announced late on October 30 that the November 14-15 World Trade Organisation (WTO) informal meeting of trade ministers will be held at a new venue, the Novotel Hotel within the
Illawarra anti-war rally
WOLLONGONG On November 2, 350 people attended a rally and march to stop the war on Iraq. Speakers included South Coast Labour Council secretary Arthur Rorris, Amy Parish from NoWar, Doreen Burrow from the
BY IGGY KIM
On October 24, a debate was held in Britain's House of Commons over the Foreign Office's handling of the detention of Lesley McCulloch in Indonesia. The debate was initiated by Alan Reid, the Scottish Liberal Democrats member for Argyll
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