BY SIMON TAYLER
In late March, Books Not Bombs national coordinator Kylie Moon met with NSW police officers to organise a march permit for an anti-war protest in Sydney, due to be held on April 2. Not only did the police refuse the permit to march,
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BY DOUG LORIMER
US President George Bush met with 11 "exiled Cuban activists" (as the US corporate media described them) at the White House on May 20 — the 101st anniversary of the adoption by Cuba of a constitution which guaranteed Washington
BY ALICIA JRAPKO
More than 10,000 piqueteros (unemployed workers) marched in Buenos Aires on May 14, in a massive show of support for the workers who had occupied the Brukman textile plant. The occupiers were violently evicted by police on April
GLW #537 reported on a motion passed at the May 10-11 Socialist Alliance national conference. Regrettably, the final section of the motion was omitted. This is the full motion as passed:
"Conference endorses these eight points:
"1. We want the
BY PAUL PRITCHARD
HOBART — Amid reports of increased cases of asthma from the thick palls of smoke that cover much of Tasmania during the forestry "re-generation burns" comes an altogether more disturbing story.
In April, Australia's biggest
BY RAUL BASSI
SYDNEY — On May 18, when activists from the Bankstown branch of the Socialist Alliance went to the office at the top of the arcade, they found the place had been sealed off by the police.
After some enquiring, they learnt what had
BY MARCUS PABIAN
MELBOURNE — Part of the May 22 national day of protest called by the National Union of Students (NUS) against the Howard government's education "reforms", announced in its May 13 budget, 330 students marched in protest from
BY DANNY FAIRFAX
CANBERRA — Anti-war and anti-corporate activists in the ACT have begun organising protests to take place against the Defence and Industry 2003 conference, which will be held in the National Convention Centre on June 24-26.
The
BY DALE T. McKINLEY
JOHANNESBURG — Two years ago I sat with veteran African National Congress leader Walter Sisulu in his modest Johannesburg home to talk about his days as a youthful ANC leader in the 1940s and 1950s. Although I had briefly met
This garden has been in a drought for a long time,Once you could take hope from this garden,But for a long time you stole it,Now it is dry,No-one is thinking about the dying flowers,No-one is thinking about why children panic in their sleep at
By JAMES BALOWSKI
JAKARTA — Following the breakdown of last-ditch talks in Tokyo between the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), Jakarta on May 19 launched a "security restoration operation" in Aceh — an all-out military
BY PETER BOYLE
The Socialist Alliance is a multi-tendency socialist party which welcomes and protects the right to campaign for a diversity of political positions within the framework of its broad socialist objectives.
The second national
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