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  • Solidarity with the 'Melbourne 13'

    Colin Mitchell, Melbourne About 60 people joined a protest ride on August 20 to Barwon prison, near Geelong, where 13 Muslim men, known as the "Melbourne 13", are being held. The men were arrested in highly sensationalised raids last November,

  • End the occupation, say Lebanese Australians

    Saeb Ali Occupied Palestine and Iraq feature in the news almost daily, so much so that people no longer seem shocked by the massive loss of innocent life. But this changed with Israel's latest barbaric attack on Lebanon in which more than 1000

  • 3000 march in memory of John Cummins

    Mick Bull, Melbourne On September 4, the trade union movement held a memorial service for the workers' hero John Cummins — "Cummo", as he was known. Three thousand people from all around the country and all walks of life packed the Regent Theatre,

  • Union network launched on NSW north coast

    Andrew Watson, Lismore The Northern Rivers Union Network (NRUN) was formally launched at the "End the lies" rally in Lismore on October 2. Richard White, a member of the Community and Public Sector Union, spoke on behalf of NRUN about the

  • ALP right imposes business candidate

    Geoff Payne, Newcastle The long sharpened axe for Bryce Gaudry, the ALP's MP for the state seat of Newcastle, has fallen. Labor's national executive dropped the 15-year incumbent in favour of businessperson and former TV newsreader Jodi McKay, who

  • Don't vote for Howard!

    The formidable figures of US President George Bush and his puppet-in-tow, PM John Howard, have appeared regularly after school on the busy Hume Highway near Yagoona Public School, imploring passers-by not to vote for the Howard government.From

  • News briefs #2

    News briefs #2 Defence of gay and lesbian rights SYDNEY - More than 800 people gathered in Town Hall square on June 26, in a massive show of opposition to the Coalition government's moves to amend the marriage rights bill in order to ban marriage

  • Close Guantanamo Bay!

    SYDNEY — Thirty people attended a moving video presentation organised by the Canterbury-Bankstown Peace Group on September 9 that focused on the US torture prison at Guantanamo Bay and the campaign for the return of David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib.

  • Hobart socialists hold election launch

    Alex Bainbridge, Hobart On September 18, 50 people rallied on the Parliament Lawns to launch the Socialist Alliance's election campaigns for the federal seats of Denison and Franklin. Denison candidate Kamala Emanuel said that "socialism

  • Muslim-Iraqi-Murri unity against racism

    Paul Benedek, Brisbane "Whenever I want to ride a bus to university, I pray that the bus driver won't be racist, pray that he will look beyond my scarf and treat me like everyone else", Salam El-Merebi, an activist with Al-Nisa, a Muslim women's

  • Fighting for public schools

    By John Gauci& Jenny Long, Sydney On June 25, NSW public school and TAFE teachers will stop work for two hours to plan industrial action in response to the state Labor government's failure to adequately fund public education through the state

  • Toyota workers strike for delegate's job

    MELBOURNE — Maintenance workers at Toyota went on strike for three days after an Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) delegate was stood down by management on August 29. When Toyota relocated its Port Melbourne production facility to