ADELAIDE: Picket against war on Iraq. Saturday October 28, noon. Outside foreign minister Alexander Downer's office, 100 King William Street, city. To get involved in the campaign against war on Iraq, phone NOWAR on (08) 8332 4861.
BRISBANE: Rally
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BY
MAX LANE
MANILA More than 450 delegates representing more than 100,000 workers
gathered in Baguio City on September 14-15 to plan out their campaign of
resistance to the neo-liberal globalisation offensive hitting Filipino
workers.
Palestine is Still the IssueDocumentary by John PilgerThursday, October 8, 8.30pmSBS
REVIEW BY ROHAN PEARCE
John Pilger's documentary, Palestine is Still the Issue, is a moving and powerful indictment of Israel's illegal occupation of the West
No war on Iraq!
LAUNCESTON Thirty-five people attended a "No war on Iraq!" public forum at the Royal Oak Hotel on September 15, organised by Launceston Socialist Alliance.
Vicki Walker of the Socialist Alliance and Debbie Butler of the
The right medicine
Regarding John Percy's article, "DSP discusses major left unity initiative" (GLW #508) on the DSP's national executive's September 2 decision to propose to its membership to liquidate publicly in 2003, and put all available
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY At the first such day-long forum in Sydney for years, 50
activists spent September 15 analysing and debating the many facets of
the backlash against feminism that has been gathering momentum in Australia,
and
BY AMIE HAMILTON
PERTH On September 17, the University of Western Australia Student Guild decided at a special council meeting to hold a referendum on October 22 on whether or not UWA should be declared a refugee safe-haven.
The Student
BY CHRIS SLEE
Australian Taxation Office (ATO) workers around Australia, members
of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), went on strike for two
hours on the morning of September 18. The strike followed the breakdown
of
[The following statement was issued by the national executive of the
Socialist Alliance on September 18.]
We are approaching the moment when the richest country in the world,
with the most powerful armed forces and most destructive arsenal
BY TIM STEWART
BRISBANE When the Cross-Campus Women's Collective heard that the
male magazine FHM was putting on a Miss University competition
at the Tivoli Theatre in Fortitude Valley on September 17, it called for
a protest of the
Maaate!
"Federal Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott last night seized on a Queensland government report by [former Labor PM] Bob Hawke recommending a time limit for protected industrial action by the state's 200,000 public sector workers."
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY Against the backdrop of a looming US-led war on Iraq, some 300 activists participated in the first Sydney Social Forum on September 20-21.
The SSF hosted 65 workshops and six feature panels. Topics discussed included
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