BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE "It's crucial that we start to get out of our little boxes", said John Cummins, Victorian president of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), addressing the Victorian Socialist Alliance state
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BY DOUG LORIMER
Student leaders held sit-ins on June 22 in front of the Iranian parliament (Majlis) and inside Tehran University to protest the detention of classmates following violent attacks on student protests the previous week by pro-clerical
BY NORM DIXON
Australian military intervention into the Solomon Islands, announced by Prime Minister John Howard on June 25, will not solve problems that are the legacy of more than a century of imperialist economic and political domination and the
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
LAUNCESTON The Sarwari family Mohib, Fatima and their four children will be able to stay in Australia for now. After a long struggle, the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) reinstated their temporary protection visa
The federal Labor opposition's cave-in over the federal government's draconian ASIO bill is a dangerous mistake, warned John Van der Velden, a national co-convener of the Socialist Alliance on June 27.
"In the name of fighting terrorism, ASIO is
BY SARAH STEPHEN
British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George Bush are facing inquiries into allegations they fabricated evidence on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in order to win public support for going to war.
In
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART A cost blow-out of more than $250 million for the Basslink underwater electricity cable across Bass Strait has been a focus of attention since Greens MPs began questioning Premier Jim Bacon's Labor government about
The Socialist Alliance has condemned the Australian government's decision to send warships and troops to police the Solomon Islands. Alliance members at the June 28 Victorian SA conference argued that Canberra would use the intervention to further
BY MELANIE SJOBERG SYDNEY A last minute reprieve arrived for the NSW Working Women's Centre, whose current federal funding arrangement expires on June 30. At 4pm on June 27, the federal government announced a new arrangement. Fifty people
On June 25, Prime Minister John Howard announced that the cabinet's National Security Committee had decided to send 1200 troops 200 of them combat soldiers and 300 Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers to the Solomon Islands for at
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