Glenn Shields is the Socialist Alliance candidate for Franklin. As a long time campaigner for a healthier environment and for the preservation of Tasmania's forests, he has played a leading role in challenging the introduction of wood-fired power stations in Tasmania such as the Southwood Woodchip Mill.
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Sue Bolton
It's hard to think of any unionist in recent times who has been more vilified by the mainstream media than former Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian branch secretary Craig Johnston.
The previous most vilified trade
Rupen Savoulian
According to the Russian government, about 330 people, one-third of them school children, were found dead after Russian special forces (Spetsnaz) stormed a school gymnasium in the North Ossetian town of Beslan on September 3. How
Left Hook co-editor M. Junaid Alam recently discussed the political and the personal with the radical Palestinian-American activist and rap artist Will Youmans, who dons the moniker "Iron Sheik". His clever and powerful music is aimed against
Rihab Charida, a member of the Socialist Alliance and Palestinian solidarity group Sawiyan, travelled to Palestine and Lebanon in June to help at the refugee camps. This is one of her tales from Palestine, sent to Green Left Weekly on September 2.
Now a spokesperson for Lismore's No War on Iraq group, I've been an environment and social-justice activist for more than 20 years, and am proud to say I was one of those arrested for blocking bulldozers on Mt Nardi (near Nimbin) in 1981. Those
Don Jarret
Ron Gray, treasurer of the Australian Peace Committee, died in Adelaide on August 13 at the age of 79. The following is an abridged version of the speech given by Don Jarret, the APC South Australian branch president, at Ron's funeral.
Chris Johnson, the Socialist Alliance candidate for Corangamite in Geelong, explains why she is contesting the federal election.
I have been an activist since my teens, having marched in anti-Vietnam War moratorium and anti-nuclear rallies. I am a
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SIEV X book launched
BRISBANE — The story of SIEV X, the unseaworthy, overcrowded refugee boat that sank in October 2001, drowning some 350 asylum-seekers off the Indonesian coast, involves a "massive Australian government agency cover-up",
Kate Stockdale, Sydney
On September 11, more than 80 people attended a public forum at the Bankstown Town Hall to discuss the community's response to repressive "anti-terrorism" laws. The forum was initiated by the Socialist Alliance and the
Metallica: Some Kind of MonsterBy Joe Berlinger and Bruce SinofskyReleased on September 16
REVIEW BY OWEN RICHARDS
Heavy metal legends Metallica on the couch with Dr Phil? Well, not quite, but Berlinger and Sinofsky's documentary Metallica: Some
Linda Seaborn
Sole parents would face gains and losses under the ALP's family tax policy released on September 7, according to Dr Elspeth McInnes, the convenor of the National Council of Single Mothers and their Children.
Sole parents who receive
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