As the Socialist Alliance's annual conference approaches (scheduled for June in Melbourne), members are debating the best way forward for the alliance. In the interests of furthering this discussion, Green Left Weekly presents contrasting views on
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Peter Boyle, Sydney
Peter and Barbara Perkins are relieved that the police hunt for their grandson Jesse Kelly, in the wake of recent youth riots against police in the poor outer Sydney suburb of Macquarie Fields, is finally over. Kelly surrendered
Doug Lorimer
The US military used internationally banned chemical weapons, including nerve gas, during their assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah last November, Dr Khalid ash Shaykhli, an Iraqi health ministry official, told a March 3 Baghdad
The March 9 edition of the Sun featured a blazing "Stamp on the camps!" headline, with an article underneath calling for a "war on gipsy [sic] free-for-all", and warning of a "gipsy invasion". The newspaper is campaigning against recent governmental
MELBOURNE — More than 150 people attended a lecture at Melbourne University by University of Technology Sydney journalism professor Peter Manning, on the treatment of Arabs and Muslims by the Australian media.
Manning, who conducted a
MELBOURNE — Activists from the Timor Sea Justice Campaign drop a banner over the Eastern Freeway on March 7, displaying a message for the Australian government. Negotiations over the disputed oil and gas fields in the Timor Sea took place in
Doug Lorimer
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi whose right-wing government has 3000 troops participating in the US-led occupation of Iraq, told the Italian parliament on March 10 that the US must take responsibility for the killing of
On March 4, an international day of protest against Coca-Cola's human rights abuses in Colombia, human rights campaigners blockaded the company's Bristol distribution centre for five hours, preventing 30 lorries from entering or leaving the site. The
BRISBANE — Police arrested five people during a speak-out against the war in Iraq on the steps of King George Square on March 11. The weekly speak-out to oppose the decision by the Coalition government to send an additional 450 troops to Iraq
Scottish Socialist Party parliamentarian Carolyn Leckie was ejected from parliament's First Minister's Questions session on March 10, when she refused to put down a poster reading "Rosie Kane is not at FMQs because she discovered WMDs". At the time,
SYDNEY — TJ Hickey, who died following a police chase in February 2004, should have celebrated his 19th birthday on March 9. A community rally in his family's home town of Walgett marked the occasion.
This was followed by a rally of the Walgett
Stan Goff, a US special forces veteran, whose son is in Iraq, is now a campaigner with the Bring Them Home Now! movement against the US occupation of Iraq. Here, he speaks to Green Left Weekly's Pip Hinman about the US deserters.
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