BY TIM STEWART
BRISBANE In a last-ditch attempt to save Brisbane's inner-city
bushland from a private developer, activists led by the Gully Action Group
launched daily occupations and pickets of Highgate Hill Gully on October
21, when
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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 ALISON DELLIT
"It was under the military rule of Suharto that Indonesia experienced the only decades of stability that it has so far enjoyed. They were decades of corruption and suppression, but also of increasing prosperity and stability. There
UN vote brings war closer
The unanimous vote by the 15 members of the United Nations Security
Council on November 8 to impose tough new weapons inspection rules and
deadlines for compliance on Iraq, with the threat of serious
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 ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART Environmentalists
paid $20,000 for an airport advertising campaign that was terminated in
less than 24 hours amid allegations of political censorship.
On November 1, the Wilderness Society, supported by
BY DAVID GLANZ
[The following
is the text of a letter sent on November 3 on behalf of the national executive
of the International Socialist Organisation (ISO) to the national executive
of the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP).]
Thank
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 SIMON MILLAR
The current
unity discussions initiated by the proposal by the Democratic Socialist
Party (DSP) to dissolve into the Socialist Alliance are of vital importance
to the future of the socialist movement in this country.
BY KYLIE MOON
MELBOURNE The October 30 flag-burning action at Melbourne University, organised by Socialist Alternative, has attracted nationwide media attention, and much corporate media condemnation.
The 100-strong action involved the
BY NORM DIXON
Prior to Turkey's November 3 general election, polls indicated that the radical Democratic Peoples Party (DEHAP) looked set to cross the 10% threshold necessary for parliamentary representation. However, media censorship, state
Activists met at the Lismore Workers Club on October 31 to organise
opposition to war on Iraq. Called No War on Iraq, the group is planning
a march and rally at Lismore's Spinks Park at 10am on November 30.
Pictured are the activists
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