BY CRAIG JOHNSTON
The Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union sees the Socialist Alliance as a very welcome development.
Working people are increasingly demanding strong, militant progressive unions to represent their needs
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BY SEAN HEALY
Tens of thousands of Argentinians have risen up against their government's austerity plan, staging strikes and demonstrations and blockading highways throughout the country.
The three-day wave of protests, from August 13-15, is the
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"Taut psychological thrillers" are two bob a dozen. So are ones with a nasty rich businessperson as
BY JAMES CRAFTY
MELBOURNE — Tensions flared outside a private meeting addressed by former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in St Kilda on August 12, when 150 supporters of Palestinian self-determination were confronted by Zionists on the
BY MARK BROWN
The city of Glasgow has been shocked by the racist murder of Kurdish asylum seeker Firsat Yildiz in the Sighthill area on August 4.
A refugee from the vicious repression of the Turkish state, 22-year-old Firsat was walking home with
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BY MICHAEL ARNOLD
"How your taxes help drug users lie to the police and cheat jail", screamed page three of the July 26 Melbourne Herald-Sun. The article underneath was a sustained attack upon the drug users' magazine Whack, published by drug users
BY NICHOLAS WOOMER
CHICAGO — Only hours into the United Students Against Sweatshops August 2-5 national conference in Chicago — before half of the participants had even arrived — students were walking the picket line in solidarity with
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Thousands of people amassed outside the ALP state conference on August 11, calling for an end to logging in old-growth forests. Tasmania currently accounts for more than two-thirds of Australia's total woodchip
Picket against sweatshop labour
ADELAIDE â Resistance activists picketed clothing store Supr in Rundle Mall on August 17. The protesters demanded that the clothing retailer sign the Homeworkers Code of Practice. The code guarantees signatories'
BY PAT BREWER
CANBERRA — Con Sciacca, the Labor Party's federal shadow minister for immigration, addressed the question "Is Australia's refugee policy racist?" at a public meeting organised by Racial Respect on August 9 at the Canberra Workers
BY NORM DIXON
The small nondescript three-room flat on Harare's busy Josiah Tongogara Street, which doubles as the International Socialist Organisation of Zimbabwe's national office, was a hive of activity when Green Left Weekly spoke to MUNYARADZI
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