BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
Thousands of students participated in the September 11-13 blockade of the World Economic Forum in Melbourne, thousands more participated in the May 1 stock exchange blockades. The S11 and M1 protests have rejuvenated student
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
SYDNEY — Oleg and Nicolae Cujba, two cousins from Moldova, arrived in Australia on October 13 for what they hoped would be a pleasant holiday.
Instead, after being questioned at the airport by officials from the Department of
BY EWAN SAUNDERS
BRISBANE — Plans are well underway for a mass people's march and convergence on the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in October after more than 30 anti-corporate, environmental, indigenous and social justice activists
@box text intr = Dear friends, we are writing this letter to you in response to the request from the Socialist Party of Timor (PST) for financial assistance in the upcoming elections for the constituent assembly in East Timor.
The elections
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
"At the beginning of the Aston by-election campaign, Socialist Alliance had one member in the electorate of Aston," the alliance's Aston campaign coordinator David Glanz told a post-election Socialist Alliance celebration on July
BY JIM MCILROY
BRISBANE — The announcement on July 8 by Queensland federal MP Bob Katter that he was resigning from the federal National Party has sent shock waves through the Coalition parties.
Katter denied he was deserting a "sinking ship",
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
"Balaclava-clad hoons", "busted-up offices", "terrorised staff", "union officials arrested" — these are the lurid makings of a corporate media scare campaign against the leaders of the militant Victorian branch of the
Interchangeable
"The last Republican who actually did something good for African-Americans was the so-called 'Great Emancipator', Abraham Lincoln. It should be noted that the good he did was motivated by his party's need for political expediency
Activists protest global warming
MELBOUURNE — The Melbourne and Geelong offices of ExxonMobil were the targets of an international day of protest against global warming and climate change on July 11.
More than 30 people, many dressed as
@box text intr = On behalf of the Anti-Privatisation Alliance and all the people fighting against the World Bank/IMF program in Papua New Guinea, we would like to extend our best wishes and gratitude to all our friends and comrades in Australia for
Amcor workers win
MELBOURNE — Workers at the three Melbourne plants of Amcor Packaging returned to work on July 6 after a successful 15-day strike against unsafe working conditions, compulsory redundancies and management arrogance.
The strike
BY JEREMY SMITH
The campaign by the National Tertiary Education Union to defend sacked University of Wollongong academic Ted Steele went to the Federal Court on July 5. The union claims the dismissal breaches the university's enterprise agreement;
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