[The following
is the text of a letter sent on November 3 on behalf of the national executive
of the International Socialist Organisation (ISO) to the national executive
of the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP).]
Thank
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SYDNEY John Pilger has confirmed he will speak at the Walk Against the War on November 30, the city's first major protest rally opposing the looming war on Iraq. The protest has bought together anti-war, community,
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WOLLONGONG Fifteen students from six local high schools came together on October 28 to form the Illawarra High School Student Social Action Network. The network was formed to encourage students to call for human
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Prime Minister John Howard has been at pains to argue that the ASIO raids on Indonesian Muslims in recent weeks were not targeting Indonesians, nor Muslims, resident in Australia. He was even more affronted by the allegation that
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US President George Bush has cynically exploited the 9/11 terror attacks to launch a blatant drive to finally realise the long-held dream of the United States capitalist ruling class: an American Century (as the goal was
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Sam Wainwright's article on illegals (GLW #513) was great in theory but demonstrated a lack of understanding of the dynamics of contracting. Employers have historically used many strategies to undermine union
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BRISBANE In a last-ditch attempt to save Brisbane's inner-city bushland from a private developer, activists led by the Gully Action Group launched daily occupations and pickets of Highgate Hill Gully on October 21, when
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And ain't i a woman: Laws continue to fail women Recently, a woman in NSW was awarded $500,000 in damages for physical abuse she endured during her marriage. Because of the abuse, the woman suffers from deep vein thrombosis and has permanent
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The current unity discussions initiated by the proposal by the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) to dissolve into the Socialist Alliance are of vital importance to the future of the socialist movement in this country.
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MELBOURNE — The October 30 flag-burning action at Melbourne University, organised by Socialist Alternative, has attracted nationwide media attention, and much corporate media condemnation. The 100-strong action involved the
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NEW PALTZ, New York On October 26, the ANSWER [Act Now to Stop War and End Racism] coalition mobilised hundreds of thousands in Washington, San Francisco and well over 100 other cities in the US and abroad against the Bush
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"It was under the military rule of Suharto that Indonesia experienced the only decades of stability that it has so far enjoyed. They were decades of corruption and suppression, but also of increasing prosperity and stability. There
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BY JOHN PERCY [The following letter was sent on November 7 on behalf of the national executive of the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) to the national executive of the International Socialist Organisation (ISO).] Dear comrades, we were
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Earlier this year, the Out of Order student collective carried out an 84-day protest and occupation of the lawns of the Bathurst campus of Charles Sturt University in a successful campaign to save the school of
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Socialist Alliance The discussion around left unity has left me wondering if some comrades think that we have to build the Socialist Alliance in a vacuum. Phil Sandford (GLW #515) suggests that SA must "develop as an organisation in its own
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The federal government's plan to build a national nuclear dump in South Australia has hit another hurdle with the leaking of a document outlining plans for a $300,000 propaganda campaign in the coming months. The Department of
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BRISBANE A video and discussion night on the continuing US/UN war against Iraq was held in the Paddington Workers Club on November 7. It featured a talk by researcher Pauline Rigby on the horrific results of US/UN
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Seventy protesters marched down the streets of Leichhardt in opposition to war and racism on November 8. The protest was organised by the Port Jackson branch of the Socialist Alliance. Photo by Liam Mitchell. From Green Left Weekly,
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Delia Maxwell, socialist feminist fighter and a member of Radical Women and the Socialist Alliance, lost her battle against cancer on November 2. Born in 1932, Delia's life spanned much of the turbulent 20th century.
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MELBOURNE On November 4, Victorian Premier Steve Bracks called an early state election for November 30, the earliest date that an election could constitutionally be called. Bracks, whose government rules with the
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Anti-war recruitment centre MELBOURNE — Twenty-six activists occupied an army recruitment centre on November 6 and transformed it into an anti-war recruitment centre. Posters were stuck on the windows, while activists campaigned outside.
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SYDNEY Activists planning demonstrations during the World Trade Organisation (WTO) mini-ministerial meeting in Sydney, November 14-15, have condemned the NSW Labor government's plans to prohibit street marches during the
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CANBERRA — The growth of anti-war sentiment in the Australian Capital Territory was clear at the November 3 rally in Garema Place to oppose a US invasion of Iraq. Seven hundred people attended the protest rally, which was
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Activists met at the Lismore Workers Club on October 31 to organise opposition to war on Iraq. Called No War on Iraq, the group is planning a march and rally at Lismore's Spinks Park at 10am on November 30. Pictured are the activists
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BY SAM KING& ROBYN MARSHALL BRISBANE — Three hundred trade unionists and students attended a loud and determined protest march for union rights and intellectual freedom on October 30 at the University of Queensland (UQ) campus at St Lucia.
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PERTH — Around 250 people attended a rally outside Perth's Parliament House on November 9 to protest against the Coalition government's recent attacks on Islamic Australians. Called by the Islamic Council of WA, the demonstration
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BRISBANE Two-thousand people gathered in the Roma Street Forum on November 3 for a lively rally opposing any war on Iraq. Demonstrators came from far and wide, from Ipswich to the Gold and Sunshine coasts. The protest
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Nobody's safe from ASIO "No country is absolutely safe for anybody but I just want to say to Australians of the Muslim faith, you are as protected and important part of our country as anyone else." — Prime Menzies John Howard, November 7. Only
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HOBART Environmentalists paid $20,000 for an airport advertising campaign that was terminated in less than 24 hours amid allegations of political censorship. On November 1, the Wilderness Society, supported by
Analysis
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UN vote brings war closer The unanimous vote by the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council on November 8 to impose tough new weapons inspection rules and deadlines for compliance on Iraq, with the threat of serious
World
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RAMALLAH — The resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on November 5 means that elections will be held within 90 days, most likely next February. Sharon's resignation was forced by his inability to form a new
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MOSCOW — I stand foursquare with Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense, when he warns that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilisation at large. We know, as does Rumsfeld, that this
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Prior to Turkey's November 3 general election, polls indicated that the radical Democratic Peoples Party (DEHAP) looked set to cross the 10% threshold necessary for parliamentary representation. However, media censorship, state
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On November 4, Beijing removed a seven-year ban on foreigners' purchase of Chinese state enterprise shares listed on stock exchanges, opening the way for the privatisation of an estimated US$300 billion of state assets — and more
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A broad spectrum of anti-globalisation activist groups and non-government organisations meeting in Mexico City on November 15-16 decided to organise protests in opposition to the World Trade Organisation's next ministerial
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Globalization and its Discontents By Joseph Stiglitz Penguin, $45 (hb) REVIEW BY LEE SUSTAR In the last decades of the USSR, Western officials denounced the Kremlin whenever Moscow purged or harassed dissidents who had the courage
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Actively Radical TV — Includes the Green Left news. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Phone (02) 9565 5522. Visit <http://www.channel31.org> for program details. Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31, has