Adelaide IWD on the move
ADELAIDE — The International Women's Day collective took to the streets here with a campaigning stall on January 27 to publicise the theme and demands for this year's rally.
"This year's theme 'Women fighting for global
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By Rohan Pearce
Behind the facade of a growing "global village" lies the reality of brutal exploitation of the Third World by the corporations and banks of the First World. The mass media tells us that "globalisation" is bringing us together, when
BY EVA CHENG
At the April Summit of the Americas meeting of government leaders, to be held in Quebec City, Canada, the United States will seek endorsement for the extension of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to the rest of the
BY SEAN HEALY
Undeterred by an unprecedented crackdown by Swiss police, several thousand anti-capitalist demonstrators have descended on the up-market ski resort town of Davos to protest the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) of top
BY ROBERTO JORQUERA
PERTH — The Deaths in Custody Watch Committee launched its prisoner rights campaign at a public meeting attended by 100 people here on January 24.
"The time is long overdue for a broad-ranging and concerted community
The first full bench hearing of the Yallourn power workers' arbitration
case begins in Melbourne on February 5 at 11.30am. The workers are asking
for as many people as possible to come and fill the arbitration court.
We must keep the
BY GRANT COLEMAN
PERTH — The campaign to save Western Australia's old-growth forests has become a major issue in the February 10 state election campaign. On January 23, the ALP released its "controversial" policy which pledges to stop old-growth
BY MAX LANE
On January 23, Budiman Sujatmiko, chairperson of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) led a delegation to meet the leadership of the Nahdatul Ulama (NU), the religious organisation which Abdurrahman Wahid led before his election as
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE — The Democratic Socialists have announced they will be running two candidates in the February 17 Queensland state elections, on a platform of "End corruption — Support socialism".
The two Democratic Socialist
Editorial: Close the detention centres!
Philip Ruddock, the federal minister for racism, has argued that
last week's protests by asylum seekers at the Port Hedland detention facility
were caused by a small group of troublemakers who were
In the wake of mass protests against racial discrimination organised by indigenous rights activists during the white ruling elite's 1988 bicentennial celebrations, Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke sought to placate Aboriginal activists with the promise of a treaty between the commonwealth government and indigenous Australia by 1990.
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