BY JANET BURSTALL
The Socialist Alliance in NSW will soon have its first chance to campaign in local government elections, which have been called for March 27. What are the issues and challenges?
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BY JOAQUIN BUSTELO
ATLANTA — Thousands of immigrant workers and their supporters marched and rallied here September 29 to demand equal rights and the right to hold a driver's licence. The protest was part of the national Immigrant Workers Freedom
The Weather UndergroundDirected by Sam Green and Bill SiegelScreening at the Glebe Valhalla, Sydney; coming soon to the Lumiere, Melbourne, and the [...], Brisbane
REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Weather Underground is a superb documentary which
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — Two-hundred people attended a rally to defend and extend Medicare on October 3. Victorian Trades Hall Council president and Textile Clothing and Footwear Union state secretary Michele O'Neil told the rally that the
On October 5, PM John Howard increased his attacks on mothers who work full-time, with the announcement of the new "maternity allowance": a flat payment, probably of $5000, paid to all women who give birth. This is superior, Howard argued, to
[Radical "poet lorikeet" Denis Kevans, who joined the LBJ protests in Sydney and in Canberra, sent the following poem which he presented to "concerts, smoke-ohs and rallies". It was published and set to music in February 1962 when the anti-Vietnam
"Crean joins PM in plans to hobble the Senate", read the Australian Financial Review's headline on October 9. The Labor Party's rapid cave-in on the federal Coalition's plans to nobble Australia's more representative federal house of parliament is a
BY ROHAN PEARCE
On September 21, Kamel al Gailani, the Iraqi "minister of finance" and a member of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council (IGC), announced at a meeting of the Institute of International Finance in Dubai a plan which he claimed
BY DALE McKINLEY
JOHANNESBURG — As the Congress of South African Trade Unions' (COSATU) eighth national congress, held September 15-18, was winding down, a senior leader, perhaps inadvertently, summed up: "We can only hope that these issues
BY BRADLEY SIMS
On October 4, 200 people crammed into Albany's Senior Citizens Hall, to support Albany's Hazara Afghan refugees and to show public opposition to deporting the Afghans who have made Albany home for three to four years.
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