BY DOUG LORIMER
A national anti-war conference, called by the Vietnam Moratorium Campaign (VMC) and held in Sydney in February 1971, endorsed proposals to build the movement against the Vietnam War. We in the socialist youth organisation Resistance
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BY JIM McILROY
Jim Cairns, the most prominent leader of the mass protests in the early 1970s against Australia's involvement in the US war against Vietnam and standard-bearer of the Victorian ALP parliamentary left of his generation, died on
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Strange things happened in Canberra during the US President George Bush's visit. Residents woke on October 23 to radio reports that a Canberra hospital ward had been cleared in anticipation of a presidential emergency. The
BY AARON BENEDEK& SARAH STEPHEN
SYDNEY — The murder of two people in the south-western Sydney suburb of Greenacre on October 14 has been turned from a criminal investigation into a new round of government and media attacks on Sydney's Arab
ReturnDavid RovicsEver Reviled Records, 2003Hang a Flag in the WindowDavid Rovics with Allie RosenblattSelf released, 2002Rovics' albums can be ordered from <http://www.davidrovics.com> and from the Hobart Resistance Bookshop
BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY — Philippines union leader Ariel Guides' fiery and rousing speeches were very well received at the protests against the visit of US President George Bush in Sydney and Canberra on October 22 and 23. In particular, protesters
BY CHRISTANO KERRILA
According to the October 16 Venezuelanalysis.com, Venezuela is to face "Megarecall" on March 27 next year. On that day, there is likely to be opposition-instigated referenda on whether President Hugo Chavez and 34 other members
MELBOURNE — The largest progressive Jewish organisation in the country, the Australian Jewish Democratic Society (AJDS), has distanced itself from the campaign being conducted by pro-Israel spokespeople against Palestinian legislator and human
US domination discussed
CANBERRA — Alastair Grieg, a Socialist Alliance member and lecturer at the Australian National University, outlined the main aims and "sorrows" of US imperialism at a public meeting held here on October 16.
He
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Should we turn our backs? Should we wear white or black armbands? Should we sit during the standing ovation? Should we refuse to clap? After weeks of parliamentarians debating how to receive US President George Bush, all such
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