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AMWU activists: 'Support the Socialist Alliance!'

BY TIM GOODEN& ALISON DELLIT One of the hottest debates at the August 4-5 Socialist Alliance national conference was the relationship between the alliance and the unions. Green Left Weekly spoke to two Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU)

Free speech attacked at Sydney University

BY PETER BOYLE SYDNEY — As I rocked up to Sydney University for my usual Green Left Weekly sales spot on August 9, three university security officers were attempting to close down the Socialist Worker club's literature stall in the library

Colombian protesters besieged in consulate

BY RUSSELL PICKERING SYDNEY — When 16 solidarity activists, including a number of children, began their occupation of the Colombian consulate on the morning of August 8, they were protesting rampant violations of human rights in the South

The trials of growing up a working-class Catholic

REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN LiamDirected by Stephen FrearsScreenplay by Jimmy McGovernStarring Anthony Borrows, Megan Burns, Ian Hart and Claire HackettShowing at Dendy and Palace cinemas nationally Liam, the latest film scripted by Jimmy

Unions condemn royal commission

BY CHRIS SPINDLER MELBOURNE — One thousand shop stewards and delegates from the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, the Electrical Trades Union, the Plumbers' Union and the Maritime Union

Howard ignores the lessons of Timor

BY PIP HINMAN It doesn't come as much surprise that PM John Howard has been so quick to visit Jakarta. Barely a day after the new Indonesian cabinet was announced, Howard was on his way to make a deal with the Sukarnoputri-military government. In

Iraq sanctions protest

SYDNEY — Fifty activists held a protest outside the US consulate on August 6 to demand an end to the 11 year-old economic sanctions against Iraq on the anniversary of their introduction. Passers-by heard how the sanctions have had a crippling

March on CHOGM gains momentum

BY EWAN SAUNDERS & TIM STEWART BRISBANE — Plans for a massive march on the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in October are gaining momentum, with plans by community groups and environmental and social justice organisations in the CHOGM

Socialist Alliance opposes CLP's racism

BY RUTH RATCLIFFE DARWIN — The Northern Territory Socialist Alliance branch has thrown itself into the August 18 NT elections, using the short election campaign to build opposition to the rampant racism of the Country Liberal Party government.

A long search for freedom

BY SARAH STEPHEN In 1989, Algeria's government stepped up its "Arabisation" program, imposing Arabic as the only language on the entire population, regardless of whether or not people spoke it. Even books were rewritten, from French into Arabic.

Action updates

Hiroshima A-bombing marked BRISBANE — A graphic description of the terrible effects of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 was the keynote talk of an August 6 rally held here to mark the 56th anniversary of that catastrophic event. The

Big Brother: playing by their rules

BY TYRION PERKINS The first Australian version of the television show Big Brother is finally over, but there is another in the pipeline. Channel 10 marketers did their job so thoroughly that even its news readers were plugging the show. Big Brother