Since Howard's federal election victory on October 9, Green Left Weekly's website has had a huge surge of visitors.
It seems that many people, faced with the horrible prospect of three more years of Coalition government attacks on workers,
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Sarah Stephen
Hundreds of people have responded with enthusiasm to the call for a convergence on Canberra on November 16 — the day parliament opens. This will be the first opportunity to come together in a national protest against the newly
Kim Bullimore, West Bank
Munira Amer's house was once surrounded by green fields, gardens and an agricultural nursery full of olive and decorative trees, grapevines and flowers, which her husband Hani took care of. Now the land around Munira and
Kim Bullimore, Israel
Angie Zelter, a well-known non-violent peace and human rights activist from Britain, is currently being held by the Israeli authorities in a cell at Ben Gurion airport, Israel.
Zelter, a founding member of the Trident
On October 7, British ITV showed a documentary by
renowned journalist John Pilger that used recently
released documents to show how the British government had
conspired with the United States to expel the Chagos Islanders
and turn their home
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In memory of SIEV X
SYDNEY — On October 26, 300 people attended the launch of the National SIEV X Memorial Exhibition. The project was first launched in Canberra in October 2003 to involve high school students in the design of a memorial to
Alison Dellit
Women across Australia marched to end violence against women on October 29. While the size of the annual Reclaim the Night marches has declined in capital cities in recent years, the number of marches is increasing, with more women
Stuart Munckton
"Caracas is a place where people have woken up. Revolution is part of everyday vocabulary", wrote Heiko Khoo, an activist from the international solidarity campaign Hands Off Venezuela in a July article on the In Defence of Marxism
There are 2,078,570 people in prison in the US (more than in any other country in the world).
In 1998, 68 people were executed in the US. Only two countries executed more.
The US is the largest arms exporter in the world. In 2001, it exported
Kevin Peoples, secretary of Labor For Refugees in Victoria, assesses the Labor Party after the federal election.
I have let two weeks go by since the election to ensure a degree of objectivity and calmness in what I have to say.
I have stayed
Nicole Colson, Chicago
"We're not going to have a draft so long as I'm the president." President George W. Bush sounded like the Wizard of Oz in full "pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain" mode in St Louis on October 8, when he tried to
Dear fellow trade unionists and social activists,
On October 2, the national council of my union, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), joined other unions in protesting the jailing of former Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU)
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