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I believe the Socialist Alliance conference was a great success. There was healthy debate around working class policies, which gave an avenue for Socialist Alliance to move forward. It was very clear to see that some major trade union leaders have
Sue Bolton, Melbourne When Craig Johnson, the former Victorian branch secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), walked into the Melbourne County Court on May 10, he was expecting to face trial on four charges relating to an
Doug Lorimer Ironically, the 82nd Airborne Division's brutal suppression in April last year of peaceful Iraqi protests in Fallujah, a city of 250,000 residents 45 kilometres west of Baghdad, sparked the beginning of a mass-based Iraqi armed
The DreamersDirected by Bernardo BertolucciWritten by Gilbert AdairWith Michael Pitt, Eva Green and Louis GarrelShowing nationally. REVIEW BY DANNY FAIRFAX He: the wide-eyed young North American spending a — by now quite clich‚d — year in
Alex Bainbridge, Hobart Public sector nurses have won significant improvements in their pay and conditions after a hard-fought dispute with the Tasmanian government. The decision to accept the government's offer was made at mass meetings held
In GLW# 580, Rohan Pearce, a member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective and the Socialist Alliance, reported on the conflict in Fallujah and commended the Iraqi resistance there. In the following article, Toma Hamid & Jalal Mohammad, members of
Emma Murphy On April 16, the day following Prime Minister John Howard's death blow to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), Rupert Murdoch's Australian reported that "Australia's 14-year experiment with Indigenous
Sam Watson The abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission is the final straw in the ongoing campaign of terror and intimidation that PM John Howard's regime has perpetrated against the Indigenous nations of this land.
Iraq I A former US guard at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib jail, Sergeant Sindar, has remarked, "It is a common thing to abuse prisoners. I saw beatings all the time". A Red Cross spokesperson has referred to a "pattern" and "broad system" of prisoner
Despite its decision to lift martial law in Aceh, Jakarta refuses to withdraw any of its 40,000 troops from the province, to lift the ban on protests or to allow international observers in. A protest in Sydney will coincide with the two-year
Since its inception, Green Left Weekly has featured cartoons from one of Australia's premier left cartoonists, Chris Kelly. Kelly has not set his vast body of work up on the web for all to see. Included are the weekly editorial cartoons Kelly has
Ruth Ratcliffe & Owen Richards, Sydney Around 200 activists rallied outside NSW parliament on May 13 to protest the state Labor government's inaction on the ADI site. Speakers called on Premier Bob Carr to declare the site a conservation zone,