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  • 'This is about stopping capital everywhere'

    MELBOURNE — "The most important thing I can tell people in Australia is that this fight against the World Economic Forum is not just of concern to people in this country; it concerns people everywhere, all over the world", said

  • ALP sweeps Sydney University SRC

    SYDNEY — Student elections at Sydney University last week resulted in a massive swing to the National Organisation of Labor Students (NOLS), a loose grouping of ALP students. This year's NOLS presidential candidate, Moksha Watts,

  • University workers win

    CANBERRA — After a hard-fought two-year industrial campaign waged against a recalcitrant Australian National University management, an enterprise agreement negotiated by the combined unions was put to a staff ballot at the end of

  • Maintenance workers' fight is strong

    GEELONG — The strike and picket by maintenance workers at the Godfrey Hirst carpet factory in South Geelong, which began on August 18, is continuing. The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union and Electrical Trades Union (ETU)

  • Parramatta march to defend refugees

    SYDNEY — In the wake of protests by desperate asylum seekers, and the racist hysteria of the Australian government and commercial media, the Refugee Action Collective (RAC) here is stepping up the campaign for refugee rights.

  • Rally over petrol prices

    PERTH — Rising fuel costs have sparked a number of protests here, culminating in a 1500-strong rally outside Parliament House on September 7. With petrol and diesel prices reaching the $1 or more per litre mark, anger at the

  • Council workers debate trade offs

    PERTH — Frustration is building among council workers and staff in Fremantle and the adjoining municipality of Cockburn over delays in enterprise bargaining. Anger at stop-work meetings over promised pay increases in Fremantle

  • High school students fight corporate tyranny

    SYDNEY — About 30 people attended a vibrant high school speak-out in Town Hall Square on September 7, organised by Resistance. The theme was "Fight for global justice". Activists endured the rain to hear from speakers on topics including Cuba,

  • Campaign against Windsor women's prison

    BY KILTY O'GORMAN SYDNEY — The construction of a new women's prison at Windsor must be stopped. A NSW Legislative Council committee looking into increased prison population released a report in July on issues relating to women. This committee

  • = Loose cannons

    Here, too “Anywhere else in the world this would be seen as a first-class opportunity for the leaders of the country.” — International Olympic Committee vice-president Kevan Gosper, on corporations providing Olympic handouts to politicians.

  • No-one is illegal

    BY HELEN BRANSGROVE& OWEN RICHARDS SYDNEY — "Waiting is the greatest punishment in life." With these words, Maqsood Alshams encapsulated the plight of refugees held in Australian detention centres. Alshams, a member of the Refugees Action

  • Journalists resist Fairfax

    SYDNEY — Journalists, photographers and artists at the highly profitable John Fairfax Holdings, publishers of the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Financial Review, Business Review Weekly, some regional and