BY DOUG LORIMER
Chants of "Hell no, we won't go, we won't fight for Texaco!" and "Hey Bush, we know you, your daddy was a liar, too!" echoed through the streets of downtown Washington on October 25 as around 100,000 people marched in the largest US
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BY MARGARITA WINDISCH
MELBOURNE — On October 27, 10,000 construction industry workers marched through the city centre to protest against the first prosecution of a unionist by the Howard government's building industry task force.
In a powerful
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA — Parliament House was beset by protesters again on October 27. The 100 Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) members chanted "What do we want? Aussie jobs!" while marching up the hill to join a 250-strong
BY ALAN MAASS
CHICAGO — "The thing that was really heartening was that under the most difficult conditions that you can imagine, workers were not waiting one minute before they started organising themselves", reported labour journalist David
BY MAURICE FARRELL
SYDNEY — On October 27, a Hornsby Local Court magistrate agreed with protest organisers that the police acted illegally on July 19 in blocking off access to the front of the home of the then immigration minister, Philip
On October 25, US President George Bush announced that he would sign into law the ban on very late-term abortions (mistakenly referred to as "partial-birth" by right-wingers) passed by the US Senate on October 21. When he does, it will be the first
Greens' protest
Green Left Weekly's editorial (#559) correctly argued that "it wasn't hard for the Greens to show up the ALP" and that "the Greens could have gone a bit further by actively helping to build the demonstrations".
Further the
BY ADELE OLIVERI
ROME — On October 24, more than 10 million workers stopped work and more than 1 million took to the streets across Italy in a four-hour general strike. Called by the country's three main union federations, the strike was in
Australia's First SocialistsBy Jim McIlroyResistance Books 2003, $5.95Available at Resistance bookshops (addresses page 2) or order at <http://www.resistancebooks.com>
REVIEW BY JOHN NEBAUER
Radical politics in Australia did not begin
BY PETER BOYLE
At its annual general meeting on October 30, Kerry and James Packer's PBL company announced it had paid $3.4 billion in bonuses to its executives. But while the greedy scum that run PBL stack away their coins, other Australians are
BY SARAH STEPHEN
John Howard must be proud of NSW Labor Premier Bob Carr, though he might never admit it. Howard and Carr see eye to eye on so many issues, most particularly the supposed imminent threat of terrorism in Australia and the calculated
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — Former nuclear physicist and social justice campaigner Dr Vandana Shiva was the guest presenter for a forum at Sydney University on October 20, entitled "Beyond Corporate Globalisation, towards Earth Democracy".
Shiva,
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