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'Environment before profits'

Glenn Shields is the Socialist Alliance candidate for Franklin. As a long time campaigner for a healthier environment and for the preservation of Tasmania's forests, he has played a leading role in challenging the introduction of wood-fired power stations in Tasmania such as the Southwood Woodchip Mill.

Is the ALP the answer for unions?

Louise Walker& Sue Bolton Over the last few months, Howard's Coalition government has been lobbying big business about the dangers of the ALP's industrial relations policy giving trade unions "too much power". Labor workplace relations shadow

Labor's family tax policy and sole parents

Linda Seaborn Sole parents would face gains and losses under the ALP's family tax policy released on September 7, according to Dr Elspeth McInnes, the convenor of the National Council of Single Mothers and their Children. Sole parents who receive

Paramedics reject ambulance services offer

Tony Iltis, Melbourne A mass meeting on September 8 of about 400 members of the Victorian branch of the Ambulance Employees Association (AEA) voted to reject offers put forward by the Metropolitan Ambulance Service and Rural Ambulance Victoria

James Hardie: Murder by any other name

Rohan Pearce The James Hardie scandal is one of corporate Australia's worst. While the amount of money involved may be less than some of the high-profile corporate collapses of recent years, the cynicism with which Hardie's management evidently

New Scientist: Direct action works

Alex Milne We now have scientific confirmation that sit-ins, rallies and boycotts are more likely to influence the government's environmental policy than schmoozing to politicians. A study by American sociologist Jon Agnone, published in New

UNITED STATES: St. Clair interview: The elections and the crisis of enviro politics

Jeffrey St. Clair is a US environmentalist and author of Been Brown So Long it Looked Like Green to Me: The Politics of Nature. He is also the co-editor with Alexander Cockburn of the radical muckraking newsletter and online site Counterpunch, as

UNITED STATES: NYPD vicious

Bill Nevins, New York The August 30-September 2 Republican National Convention in New York City was marked by systematic and cynical violation of the free speech and free assembly rights of those protesting President George Bush and his war on

Write on: Letters to the editor

Iraq John Howard yaps behind the US and British dogs of war while his faithful warmongrel, Larry Anthony, obsesses with the vital events of our time — the Casino/Murwillumbah railway and the Ocean Shores sports field — in an attempt to blinker

Global solidarity fiesta

MELBOURNE — More than 180 people crammed into the Brunswick Town Hall on September 4 to celebrate and raise funds for Green Left Weekly. A range of prominent GLW supporters addressed the event, including Moreland councillor and Construction,

Socialist Alliance hits the coast.

Socialist Alliance's Sue Bull reports from the election campaign trail on September 11. Armed with a one-tonne ute, a two-metre-high billboard, red flags and a megaphone, Socialist Alliance candidates Tim Gooden and Chris Johnson headed off into

'Lying rodents' to target Howard's election launch

Marce Cameron, Brisbane An alliance of progressive organisations is planning a peaceful rally and march at PM John Howard's official election campaign launch on September 26. This will be one week before the national pre-election "End the lies"