BY BARRY SHEPPARD
SAN FRANCISCO — An important victory has been won by undocumented workers in California as a result of the recall election of Democrat governor Gray Davis. To avoid being recalled in the October 7 poll, Davis has reversed his
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BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
PERTH — At its meeting on September 18 the Perth No War Alliance decided to change its planned October 25 protest, in order to hold a protest coinciding with the visit to Australia of US President George Bush.
The new
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — David Hicks, who has been held at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for almost two years. His father, Terry, told 130 people attending a public meeting at the Trades Hall Auditorium on September 20 that he
BY PAUL BENEDEK
The socialist movement lost an inspiring campaigner when Socialist Alliance member and Green Left Weekly supporter Jim Dooley died in Gosford, on the NSW Central Coast, on September 15, aged 73.
Jim, who had been a longtime,
The collapse last week of trade talks at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Cancun, Mexico, has re-focused attention on the US-Australia negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA). On September 14, trade minister Mark Vaile
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Queensland Liberal senator Brett Mason has been accused of being a "dummy-spitting bigot", after he criticised the acknowledgment of traditional land owners at citizenship ceremonies.
Mason used a citizenship day speech
BY BENJAMIN DANGL
SANTIAGO — Days before the anniversary of the 1973 military coup that overthrew the left-wing government of President Salvador Allende, half of the people on Santiago's busiest street were shopping. The other half were
BY EMMA MURPHY
In the first week of September, Lanora Jackson and her 12-year-old daughter Cassie drove masses of Stolen Wages Campaign postcards from Brisbane to Sydney and Melbourne, in a bid to build support and solidarity for the Queensland
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — There was little doubt about what feelings dwell in the heart of Negro Alpius Kogoyo, head of the Lani tribe of Mimika and commander of the Peoples Opposed to the Division of Papua. Kogoyo was in Jakarta to lobby the
Across Australia, people are planning to travel to Canberra to protest against US President George Bush's visit to Australia, likely to be in the few days after October 21. Solidarity protests are also being planned in a number of cities. Planned so
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