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'We shall not surrender Ralphs Bay!'

Kamala Emanuel, Hobart More than 700 people rallied in Hobart on July 15 to save Ralphs Bay in the Derwent estuary from a huge canal and housing development. If Walker Corporation's plans are allowed to go ahead, the Ralphs Bay Conservation Area

Write on: Letters to the editor

Abortion Tony Abbott apparently wants "late-term" abortions banned. Why? He probably believes it is a terrible wrong to (intentionally) kill any (innocent) human being and really wants an end to (virtually) all abortions. However, if it is

Campaign to close Villawood gains momentum

Ruth Ratcliffe, Sydney One hundred and fifty Sydney residents have signed on to a "community pledge" to offer sanctuary in their homes to people detained in Villawood detention centre. Rupen Savoulian, one of the campaign organisers, told Green

Abortion scaremongering

On August 8, a British documentary titled My Foetus, depicting the abortion of a four-week-old foetus, will screen on the ABC. In the July 10 Daily Telegraph, NSW lead Senate candidate for the Socialist Alliance, Kylie Moon, was asked to comment on

'Green-Black alliance' discussed

Alex Milne, Melbourne The 2004 Students of Sustainability conference was held at La Trobe University on July 11-14. Around 500 environmentalists and other activists, from interstate and overseas, attended. As always, there was an impressive

Time for rebellion

REVIEW BY ROHAN PEARCE Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American CenturyBy Stan GoffSoft Skull Press, New York 2004243 pages, US$13.95 pbOrder from <http://www.softskull.com> "For a brief time in 1994 I acted as the

Protests planned to 'End the lies'

Pip Hinman Plans to hold national "End the lies" rallies the Sunday before the federal elections are well underway. Groups in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Hobart have adopted the additional demands, "Troops out! Howard out!" Andrew Hall told

Sinister workings of the Bush regime

REVIEW BY OWEN RICHARDS Cutting Edge: The World According to BushScreening on SBS, 8.30pm, July 20 & 27 If you're not yet having nightmares about the world being in the hands of a circle of crazed zealots, this should do it. The World According

A woman's place is in the struggle: Our bodies, our lives, our right to decide

The planned airing of film-maker Julia Black's documentary, My Foetus on ABC Television's August 8 Compass religious program has sparked a media storm. Should a documentary showing a suction abortion and foetal remains be shown on the ABC? Should

Labor, war and illusions of Australian democracy

Tim Anderson In the corporate-media-dominated two-party system that passes for democracy in Australia, there is recurrent confusion over what the Australian Labor Party actually represents. Is Labor a force for social democracy, an "imperfect"

Socialists launch election campaign

Paul Benedek, Sydney One-hundred people packed the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre on July to launch the Socialist Alliance's federal election campaign across Sydney. Compered by Raul Bassi, the Socialist Alliance's Blaxland candidate, the launch

SOUTH KOREA: Troop deployment divides the country

Sun Jung Hwang On June 22, Iraqi militants beheaded Kim Sun-il, a Korean employee of a Baghdad-based food supplier for the US army, after Seoul refused to withdraw its troops from Iraq. The South Korean government plans to send 3000 more in