SYDNEY — A handful of protesters took their anti-war message to the Fleet Base East, where HMAS Tobruk was leaving for Iraq, on April 4. The supply ship is to provide sealift for Australian troops deploying to the
Al Muthanna Task Group in
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Alex Bainbridge
Socialist Alliance member Kamala Emanuel was labelled one of Tasmania's "top ten protesters" by the March 29 Mercury, alongside the likes of Greens Senator Bob Brown, gay rights activist Rodney Croome and Gardening Australia
Permanent war will bring peace
"We're talking about a part of the world in which, uhh, you know, our foreign policy was, let's just hope for the best and tolerate the fact there's no free societies. And — what ended up happening was, there was a
On February 18, the Israeli government set up an x-ray machine at the Rafah International Crossing Point, and forced all Palestinians trying to leave Gaza that way to submit to an enhanced x-ray process, that included taking naked photographs. The
On April 11-17, events around the world will develop solidarity with the Venezuelan revolution. The week of solidarity will mark the third anniversary of the defeat of a US-backed coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, whose government is
Kathy Newnam, Darwin
The re-autopsy of the body of Douglas Scott has found further evidence that the Aboriginal man was tortured and murdered in the Northern Territory's Berrimah prison on July 5, 1985.
Douglas Scott's widow, Letty, has fought
Socialist Alliance
Hear hear, Dave Riley (GLW #620), a broad-based Socialist Alliance is essential, and it is this very quality that gives it its strength and attraction for so many.
If the Socialist Alliance did not speak out for refugees, for
PM John Howard's top priority after winning control of the Senate is to attack Australian workers and their unions. He has introduced a wave of legislation that will, if passed, severely restrict workers' rights.
This legislation will:
Remove
Farida Iqbal
"Voluntary student unionism" legislation (VSU) is designed to crush student organisations by ending universal student union membership.
Federal education minister Brendan Nelson is framing the VSU debate in terms of Lego clubs and
Karl Miller,
Melbourne
More than 80 people turned up to the Victorian
state conference of the Socialist Alliance, the theme of which
was "Organising a community and trade union fight-back
against Howard's new attacks". This included around
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