MELBOURNE — A trade union militant, Craig Johnston was the Victorian secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union between 1998 and August last year. Respected for his integrity and militancy, Johnston is a leader of the Workers First
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CANBERRA — Federal Greens senator Kerry Nettle will speak at a Socialist Alliance public forum on February 19. The topic is "How can we stop the war?". Phil Griffiths, who will speak on behalf of Socialist Alliance
BY JULES GREEN
HOBART — Even before the year's first meeting of the Hobart Peace Coalition was held on February 2, the city's umbrella anti-war organisation, organised and spontaneous expressions of anti-war sentiment have mushroomed.
Despite
BY STEVEN THEUNISSEN
Whilst Australians panicked about the attempt by about 400 refugees to find refuge from various forms of misery during the "Tampa crisis", climate change is expected to create a new refugee crisis, as millions of people lose
BY RENFREY CLARKE
ADELAIDE — Throughout five years as a Labor member of South Australia's state parliament, these were the rules Kris Hanna was expected to abide by: stay quiet as party leaders steered the ALP in behind Howard government
BY ROZ PATERSON& ANDREW MCPAKE
GLASGOW — On January 26, 300 anti-war activists gathered for a conference organised by the Scottish Coalition for Justice not War. The question that most activists wanted to resolve was how to mobilise against the
BY JIM GREEN
ADELAIDE — Campaign Against Nuclear Dumping was launched on January 31 in opposition to the federal government's plan for a national radioactive waste dump near Woomera in the centre-north of South Australia.
The campaign will
BY GORIK OOMS
MOZAMBIQUE — "It is very genocidal for one part of the world to have the cure for the AIDS disease while millions of people in another part are dying from the same disease. The developed world is challenged to make antiretroviral
BY PATRICIA SADLEIR
SYDNEY — Despite near 40-degree heat, more than 100 people gathered in Bicentennial Park in Glebe on January 26 for a "picnic for peace", the first public event of the recently formed Leichhardt Stop the War Group.
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REVIEW BY LUKE SMITH
With the world music industry becoming more commercialised everyday, and with most major record labels being reluctant
BY ORLANDO SEPULVEDA
PORTO ALEGRE — Brazilian President Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva spoke to tens of thousands of people at the World Social Forum (WSF) on January 25. It was the first time that Lula, a former factory worker and union leader,
BY LUKE FOMIATTI
LAHORE — As I watched a 500-strong January 18 anti-war demonstration here, a well-dressed man with a crisp English accent approached me. Believing I was a Western journalist, he asked if I would be interested in interviewing the
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