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Trade unionist and political prisoner Craig Johnston was released from Loddon prison in country Victoria on May 26, the same day that the Coalition government announced its next set of anti-union laws. In 2001, while Johnston was the Victorian
That Craig Johnston was released from jail on the very day that the Coalition government unveiled its new industrial relations laws warrants special attention by all those millions of Australian working people who will see their wages, job security
According to the Palestine National Information Centre's May 30 report on the Al Asqa Intifada, 4032 Palestinians, 750 of them children have died since September 2000. Of the total deaths, 732 were caused by Israeli shelling of Palestinian homes.
Leaders of the New Zealand Maori Party have been touring Australian cities to boost support for the party, which has become a growing force in NZ politics over the past year. They were invited by branches of the party formed by Maori migrants in
On May 30, the revolutionary socialist party Lalit nominated 32 candidates across all 20 constituencies for the upcoming general election. Opposing the constitutional requirement that for their nomination to be accepted, each candidate must list
@intro2 = Peter Boyle is a member of the national executives of both the Democratic Socialist Perspective and the Socialist Alliance. What has the Socialist Alliance achieved in its four years of existence? The Socialist Alliance is probably the
MELBOURNE — On May 30, 30 people attended a meeting in Campbellfield, a northern suburb of Melbourne, to launch a local group to campaign against the federal government's attacks on workers' rights and welfare. Dave Kerin, convenor of the Union
Sarah Stephen When right-wing Murdoch columnist Andrew Bolt writes an open letter to PM John Howard calling for the release of children from detention, you can be sure that conservative elites are sniffing the popular mood in Australia and are
The Coalition's industrial relations "reform" package is aimed at gutting the Australian union movement. In a round-table discussion in the June issue of Seeing Red, three militant unionists — Joan Doyle (Victorian secretary of the Communications,
PM John Howard is moving his war on workers and the poor into top gear. The Coalition's plans to push through pernicious legislation when it takes control of the Senate in July are clear. Howard is drawing a line in the sand, and so must we. Green
On June 1, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported that a high-level South Africa defence ministry delegation was due to visit soon. The newspaper explained that the delegation, which would include arms manufacturers, would meet with the director-general
MELBOURNE — The federal government's terrorism charges against Jack Thomas are aimed at making him a "scapegoat to cover up their own evil deeds", Tim Anderson told a public meeting on June 2. Anderson, who spent eight years in prison, wrongly