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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

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.

SOUTH AFRICA: Stop Telkom retrenchments Workers employed by South Africa's Telkom are facing a new wave of retrenchments. The telecommunications giant plans to shed another 4181 workers in three years, despite its record 4.592 billion rand profit
Ian 'Jammo' Jamieson, the Socialist Alliance candidate for Fremantle, explains why he is contesting the federal election. I have been involved in the socialist movement for 35 years. Currently I'm working as a wharfie down in Fremantle. Since the
Tony Iltis, Melbourne A mass meeting on September 8 of about 400 members of the Victorian branch of the Ambulance Employees Association (AEA) voted to reject offers put forward by the Metropolitan Ambulance Service and Rural Ambulance Victoria
Cascade Brewery workers formed a picket line on September 10 in response to the company's attempt to stand down 30 workers. By the end of the day the jobs were reinstated and the workers won a pay rise. The workers previously imposed work bans
Support is growing daily for the national "End the lies!" rallies scheduled for the October 2-3 weekend. Following are messages of endorsement for these actions. Jo Vallentine It's important for people to be seen to be speaking out about the need
Bill Nevins, New York The August 30-September 2 Republican National Convention in New York City was marked by systematic and cynical violation of the free speech and free assembly rights of those protesting President George Bush and his war on
Max Lane I condemn the bombing outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta on September 9, which has taken at least nine lives and injured more than 180 Indonesians — mainly people doing business at the embassy and passers-by. I express my full
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
Andrew Hall On September 9, Australia's longest-serving political prisoner, Peter (Muhammad) Qasim, had been held in immigration detention for six years. An August 6 High Court decision means that Qasim is one of a the "stateless" asylum seekers

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