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  • Anger at moves to relocate school

    CANBERRA — A recent Education Department review recommends the relocation of the School without Walls (SWOW) to Dickson College. On August 14, a public meeting at SWOW to discuss the proposal was attended by more than 80

  • Students occupy Howard's office

    Students occupy Howard's officeSYDNEY — On August 21, 60 students occupied John Howard's electoral office in Gladesville to protest against the budget's attacks on education. After entering, the students escorted most staff

  • 'If we don't fight, we lose'

    The following is abridged from a speech by Tom Hagan on behalf of TAFE Students Against Slave Wages to the August 19 trade union protest in Perth. Hagan is a member of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union and the socialist youth organisation

  • Indigenous resistance rally

    Indigenous resistance rallySYDNEY — A quickly organised Indigenous Resistance Rally attracted more than 1000 people to Hyde Park on August 18. The rally called for a strong and unified stand against the Howard government's

  • Violence on August 19

    I have just got back from Canberra where I attended the rally. The media have reacted completely inappropriately to the events on the day. I witnessed much which conflicts with what was reported: 1. The rally was not violent. You

  • Thousands rally against government attacks

    In the largest outpouring of unionist opposition to government attacks since the SEQEB dispute, and the biggest workers' rally in Brisbane for decades, Bill Mason reports, some 10,000 people crowded into the King George Square on August 19 and later

  • Cuts target the poor, vulnerable

    Welfare rights groups have criticised the budget, saying that more than 30% of the expenditure cuts unfairly target people on low incomes. Michael Raper, director of the NSW Welfare Rights Centre, described the new social security

  • CFMEU solidarity with Indonesian trade unionists

    CANBERRA — Nico Warouw, the international representative of the Indonesian People's Democratic Party (PRD), urged CFMEU seminar participants to support the release of all political prisoners and the growing

  • Union campaign forces school cleaning review

    Union campaign forces school cleaning reviewBRISBANE — A concerted campaign by Queensland school cleaners has forced the Education Department to review privatisation plans which would lay off 6500 permanent and casual workers.

  • CFMEU maps out fight back strategies

    CANBERRA — Some 350 officials, job delegates and rank and file members from around the country attended the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union's (CFMEU) August 17-18 information seminar on the

  • Protest against Howard in Hobart

    HOBART — More than 1000 people protested on August 23 outside the Liberal Party state conference dinner at Wrest Point Casino, where Prime Minister John Howard spoke. Several union contingents, students, East Timor solidarity activists, Sexual

  • US government's 'environmental racism'

    US government's 'environmental racism' On August 6, Greenpeace activists chained themselves to the entrance of the US embassy in Mexico City to protest against the construction of a low-level radioactive waste dump in Sierra Blanca, Texas, 32