Anti-war recruitment centre
MELBOURNE Twenty-six activists occupied an army recruitment centre on November 6 and transformed it into an anti-war recruitment centre. Posters were stuck on the windows, while activists campaigned outside.
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Globalization and its Discontents
By Joseph Stiglitz
Penguin, $45 (hb)
REVIEW BY LEE SUSTAR
In the last decades of
the USSR, Western officials denounced the Kremlin whenever Moscow purged
or harassed dissidents who had the courage
BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY Activists
planning demonstrations during the World Trade Organisation (WTO) mini-ministerial
meeting in Sydney, November 14-15, have condemned the NSW Labor government's
plans to prohibit street marches during the
BY KATHERINE BRADSTREET
Earlier this year, the Out of Order student collective carried out an 84-day protest and occupation of the lawns of the Bathurst campus of Charles Sturt University in a successful campaign to save the school of
BY SAM KING& ROBYN MARSHALL
BRISBANE Three hundred trade unionists and students attended a loud and determined protest march for union rights and intellectual freedom on October 30 at the University of Queensland (UQ) campus at St Lucia.
BY JIM MCILROY
BRISBANE Two-thousand people gathered in the Roma Street Forum
on November 3 for a lively rally opposing any war on Iraq.
Demonstrators came from far and wide, from Ipswich to the Gold and Sunshine
coasts. The protest
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Prime Minister John Howard has been at pains to argue that the ASIO raids on Indonesian Muslims in recent weeks were not targeting Indonesians, nor Muslims, resident in Australia. He was even more affronted by the allegation that
BY DEBBIE BRENNAN
Delia Maxwell, socialist
feminist fighter and a member of Radical Women and the Socialist Alliance,
lost her battle against cancer on November 2. Born in 1932, Delia's life
spanned much of the turbulent 20th century.
BY ANDREW FERGUSON
Sam Wainwright's
article on illegals (GLW #513) was great in theory but demonstrated
a lack of understanding of the dynamics of contracting.
Employers have historically used many strategies to undermine union
BY CHRIS FLOYD
MOSCOW I stand foursquare with Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense, when he warns that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilisation at large. We know, as does Rumsfeld, that this
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