Dave Holmes
Although small, Sydney-based Resistance Books can lay claim to being Australia's largest socialist publishing house — indeed, it is really the country's only socialist publisher. Currently, its catalogue lists almost 70 books and
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Sarah Stephen The rise in the Greens' vote in the March 27 NSW council elections, which almost doubled the 28 council positions they held previously, has firmly established the Greens as the third force in electoral politics. The strongest
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Seabed mining I am a Pakeha (Greek/French/Irish) who, along with my wife, has recently become a citizen of New Zealand. From our home base in Wanaka, we have become alarmed and active, generally on environmental issues such as opposing the release
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Much of the pontificating about the threat of terrorism is merely fear-mongering. You are still more likely to get die in a car accident or of a terminal illness than be killed in a terrorist attack. Patterns of Global Terrorism 2002, a report
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Norm Dixon Rupert Murdoch's hacks have been at it again — shamelessly manipulating, distorting and fabricating "news". The Murdoch media empire's lynching of Willie Brigitte illustrates wonderfully why working people should never trust a word
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Dave Riley, Brisbane What was once simply known as Brisbane has morphed over the past 20 years into a new entity: South East Queensland. SEQ, as it is generally referred to, doesn't just straddle the Brisbane River at its mouth, but stretches from
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Alison Dellit Mark Latham's March 30 claim that the federal Labor caucus voted In March 2003 to withdraw Australian troops from Iraq, initially gave us at Green Left Weekly pause for thought. Had we been too hard on Labor? Had the ALP clearly
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Norrian Rundle, Australian Education Union Victorian branch state councillor. If we can't defend Craig, then whenever unionists break the law, they're going to be vulnerable to this sort of attack. Teachers need to understand that these laws can be
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Bryan Sketchley, Melbourne If any Victorian trade unionist had an inkling that Premier Steve Bracks' Labor government would deliver a half way decent deal for workers, they would, by now be sadly disappointed. With the current round of enterprise
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Sue Bolton, Melbourne The conservative wing of the union movement and the Victorian Labor Party machine are exerting massive pressure on union officials to withdraw support from Australian Manufacturing Workers Union activist Craig Johnston, in the
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Rohan Pearce Nine days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, US President George Bush told a joint session of the US Congress: "Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global
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Rohan Pearce Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network was originally not a terrorist organisation but as part of the ragtag group of warlords and Islamic religious fanatics trained and funded under the auspices of the CIA to fight against the left-wing,
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Rohan Pearce In the imperialist countries such as Australia, people are conditioned to react differently to the violence of the oppressed and the oppressor. So, for example, the March 11 terrorist attacks in Madrid claimed some 200 lives and the
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Austin Whitten Another notoriously crooked polling question greeted Australians on March 30, compliments of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age. Both newspapers claimed a poll conducted by ACNeilson on March 26-28 showed that most
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Our Common Cause: Are Labor governments the friends of unions? Unionists are desperate to get rid of the Coalition government. The government's anti-union laws, its 1998 attack on the wharfies and the ongoing attack on building industry
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Sarah Stephen, Sydney Following Easter protest actions at Woomera and Baxter detention centres in 2002 and 2003, refugee activists from around the country will this year converge on Prime Minister John Howard's Sydney residence, Kirribilli House.
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Simon Jones, Newcastle On March 31, 550 people crowded into a public meeting against the NSW Labor government's planned part-privatisation of the Mater Hospital. The meeting was organised by the Newcastle Trades Hall Council's Defend Public Health
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Iggy Kim, Sydney The March 27 NSW local government elections resulted in an increased vote for candidates whose general policy positions are to the left of the ALP, with the Greens registering significant improvements. The Greens more than
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Expert opinion I "I think the marines will enjoy working in Fallujah. But they'll be bloodied." — Lieutenant Colonel Brian Drinkwine, commander of US Army's 700-member 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, speaking to reporters after the March 24
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PERTH — One thousand people rallied in Perth on March 27 to demonstrate their outrage at the assassination of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin by the Israeli military. The rally, organised by the Muslim community, called for a peaceful
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Terry Costello, Melbourne The March 25-28 national council meeting of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) adopted the ACTU executive's "criminal conduct policy" resolution with only two votes against. The resolution was motivated by ACTU
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Kamala Emanuel, Hobart Tasmania's Labor government continues to feel public anger at its decision to support a private hospital downgrading services in violation of its contract with the government. At least 2000 people attended an open-air meeting
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3 Protesters greet 'Australia's biggest liar' GEELONG — More than 500 people protested the visit of "Australia's biggest liar", Prime Minister John Howard, on April 2. Visiting the city for a Liberal Party fundraiser reported to cost $1200 a
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Stuart Munckton With Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" booming from the sound system provided by the Reclaim the Streets collective, 700 students stormed into the main building of the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) on March 31. The protest was
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NEWCASTLE —Pasted is an exhibition by Stephen O'Brien of political posters that have been "rediscovered" underneath beds, behind wardrobes and in the corners of garages. O'Brien has photographed and recorded 1900 posters going back almost 40
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Jon Lamb, Darwin Ranger uranium mine workers, along with the residents of Jabiru and the traditional owners of Kakadu, remain deeply concerned about the recent contamination of drinking water and water systems surrounding the mine. The mine was
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Mondli Hlatshwayo, Johannesburg Khanya College, one of South Africa's leading left-wing labour movement support organisations, and the Workers Library are fighting attempts to evict them from their historic premises in Johannesburg's Newtown arts
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Uri Avnery, Tel Aviv Five hundred black-and white-bearded Hamas members were sitting opposite me. Venerable sheikhs and young people. On the side, some rows were occupied by women. I was standing on the stage, talking in Hebrew, with the crossed
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Michael Karadjis Clashes between Albanians and Serbs, involving firearms, grenades and rocks broke out on March 17 in the northern Kosova city of Mitrovica. They were sparked by the drowning of three Albanian children. Tensions began in Caglavica
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Doug Lorimer Some 400 members and observers attended the sixth annual conference of the Scottish Socialist Party, held in Edinburgh over the weekend of March 27-28. It was the first SSP conference since the election of six SSP members to the
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Eva Cheng After five decades of mostly military rule by the Nationalist Party (KMT), a former lawyer and member of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) — Chen Shui-bian — won Taiwan's second ever presidential election by
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Patrick Bond, Johannesburg On April 27, 1994, the racist apartheid system was smashed. One person, one-vote democracy and deracialisation of government was achieved as a result of the mass struggle conducted largely under the 72-year long
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Doug Lorimer In the last few weeks, the US occupation of Iraq has suffered a series of blows, as pressure mounts upon its allies to pull their troops out. The latest comes from European Union president Romano Prodi, a former Italian prime minister,
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Robyn Marshall, Caracas There is some objective news reporting in Venezuela, although the country's media — newspapers, television and radio — is massively dominated by the powerful, right-wing corporations owned by mega-magnate Ricardo
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Send messages of concern and protest to: Juan Manuel ArbelaezDirector de recursos humanos Panamco Colombia S.A.(Coca-Cola Company in Colombia)Fax: 091-4011687Mail: Cra 94 No 42-94, Fontibon Bogot D.C. Coca Cola FemsaJuan Manuel Arbelaez
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From March 15 to March 27, workers at Colombia's Coca-Coca bottling plant went on hunger strike, in a desperate attempt to improve their working conditions. Carlene Wilson, a member of the Socialist Alliance and Workers Power, and an activist in
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Saul Landau Someone once asked Mahatma Gandhi what he thought of Western civilization. "It would be a good idea", he replied. Democracy in Latin America might also prove nice if the United States would allow it to occur. Traditionally, when
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Message Stick: Kalkadoon Man — Follows one of Australia's most respected musicians, William Barton, on a 10-day quest to make a didgeridoo using traditional methods. ABC, Friday, April 9, 6pm. The Pill — Conceived as a solution to the
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Free your mind — "to those who never give up!" Free your mind When you feel alone, When you get down, 'cause life just belongs, to those who settle down. Free your mind When things have gone wrong, When they put you behind bars, 'cause here,
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The Wide Blue RoadDirected by Gillo PontecorvoWritten by With Yves Montand and Alida ValliAvailable on Region 1 DVD only, US$27. REVIEW BY LOUIS PROYECT In a remote and picturesque fishing village on an island off the coast of southern Italy,
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Reviewd by Sarah Stephen CMI — A Certain Maritime IncidentDevised by version 1.0 and the Department of Performance Studies, Sydney UniversityPerformance Space, 199 Cleveland St RedfernUntil April 11 CMI is very impressive theatre — a
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Jefferson Lee Est Timorese President Xanana Gusmao's wife, Kirsty Sword Gusmao, will be the guest of honour at a benefit night at the Sydney Town Hall, at 7pm on April 21. The event will raise funds for the Alola Foundation, which was set up by