For each other's sake
"In my opinion, the young generation of whites, blacks, browns, whatever else there is: you're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution, a time when there's got to be a change. People in power have misused it, and
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BY JIM MCILROY
BRISBANE — "No to war! No to racism! Tax the rich!" were the main themes of the October 24 campaign launch of the Queensland Socialist Alliance team, attended by around 90 supporters.
Karen Fletcher, one of the two Socialist
Majorities are another question
Fighting terrorism "must never be an excuse to persecute minorities". — US President George "The Crusader" Bush.
Foot 'n mouth disease is enough
"I do not have anthrax." — George the Crusader again.
BY KAREN FLETCHER
On October 19, the ALP announced that, if elected, it will leave the Goods and Services Tax almost entirely intact — just another reminder that the Labor Party is interested only in the needs of the corporate rich, not the rest
BY GRANT COLEMAN
PERTH — Determined to take action against the US attacks on Afghanistan, 55 students and staff formed an anti-war alliance at an October 24 forum on Curtin University.
Addressing the meeting, Gavin Mooney, a health sciences
BY VIRGINIA BROWN
PERTH — The variety of backgrounds of the 30 activists who gathered for Socialist Alliance's first "politics in the pub" forum on October 19 — refugee rights and anti-war campaigners, candidates from different left-wing
BY NORM DIXON
The crude efforts by a faction of the US government to link anthrax-infected letters to the Saddam Hussein regime — without a shred of evidence — are an attempt to win greater public support for an extension of Washington's "war
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Lessons of
BY GARY MEYERHOFF
DARWIN — There have been mixed reactions to the October 24 apology made to indigenous people by the Northern Territory Labor government before a gallery packed with members of the stolen generations: some see it as the dawning
BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
SYDNEY — Nuclear Disarmament Party (NDP) Senate candidates Michael Denborough and Yvonne Francis were arrested at Sydney University on October 25 for handing out anti-war information on campus.
Francis told Green Left Weekly
BY GILLIAN DAVY
MELBOURNE — The eighth anti-war rally in the six weeks since the September 11 terrorist attacks attracted 400 protesters on October 21, including strong contingents from the Turkish and Kurdish communities.
Speaking to the crowd
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — In a combined mass meeting on October 24, 10,000 construction unionists have decided not to cooperate with the royal commission into the industry set up by the federal government and have backed a united industrial
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