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BY KAMALA EMANUEL The struggle for socialism lost a true friend with the untimely death on October 22 of Bruce Heckinger, aged 50. He died pursuing the sport he loved, paragliding, at Manilla in NSW. Bruce touched many people's lives, not only in
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS MELBOURNE — More than 170 people enjoyed a lively night of fun and socialist politics at the Socialist Alliance's anti-corporate festival at Daniher Hall, Carlton, on October 20. The festival raised $3000. Comedian and
BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — Three hundred construction workers on October 23 released black balloons in a moving tribute to workers killed on the job. Between 1990 and 2000, 161 workers were killed by electrocution on the job. Members of the
BY LESLIE RICHMOND ADELAIDE — It is a received wisdom that a week is a long time in politics. If your idea of politics is bounded by parliament, boardrooms and the editor's office, it would certainly seem so. In South Australia in October the
Billy Bragg I Like Daniel Sullivan ("Bollocks", Write On, GLW #468), I appreciate the music of Billy Bragg but unlike Daniel I find some of Billy's recent political stands quite obnoxious. Unfortunately, I missed his recent round of concerts but
BY DANNY FAIRFAX GHENT — As participants in the first major "anti-globalisation" protest since the beginning of the war against Afghanistan, those who gathered in this north Belgian city on October 19 knew they had a great responsibility on their
Labor won't guarantee job security On November 1, unionists will gather across Australia to rally for job security. Such demonstrations are badly needed — the collapse of Ansett, Qantas' threatened job losses, Coles Myer's mass
BY DICK NICHOLS, IAN RINTOUL& RIKKI LANE The Socialist Alliance was appalled by and condemned the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington (for a full statement see our web page, www.socialist-alliance.org
BY NORM DIXON The fear of "bio-terrorism" in the United States is being cynically used to whip up war fever by politicians, the "attack Iraq" faction of the US administration and the mass media in the wake of the deaths of a Florida media worker on
BY ALEJANDRO RODRIGUEZ & ROQUE GRILLO On October 14, in the midst of the worst economic crisis in the country's history, Argentinians went to the polls to elect representatives to the Congress and Senate — and gave the government of