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BY JESS RODGERS "Who did the killings? Who did the killings? Downer doesn't know — he hasn't even condemned them!", James Vassilopoulos, a representative of the Socialist Alliance told protesters in Canberra on June 29. The emergency protest
Axe the GST! The Socialist Alliance's June 30 anti-GST pickets received saturation media coverage. The ABC, SBS and three commercial TV channels all highlighting the only nationwide protests against the hated tax. Our pickets explained the real
BY SEAN HEALY Some of the world's largest corporations came under fire in the southern Californian city of San Diego on June 24, when 1600 environmentalists marched on the annual convention of the Biotechnology Industry Organisation, to protest
By David Glanz, Aston by-election campaign manager "Scrap the GST — vote Socialist Alliance!" That's the message SA supporters have been taking to the streets of Aston for the past six weeks. The Aston federal by-election on July 14 is our
BY SHANE BENTLEY NEWCASTLE — The state Labor government's determination to push ahead with the Workers' Compensation Amendment Bill has forced thousands of unionists in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley to reconsider their allegiance to the Labor
NSW Blue Mountains bluemountains@socialist-alliance.org Info: 9687 5134 Lismore lismore@socialist-alliance.org Info: 6622 5050 (Edda) or 6622 0103 (Nick) Newcastle newcastle@socialist-alliance.org Info: 4926 5328 (Steve)
It has now been six years since a federal Liberal-National Coalition government was elected. During these six years, the government, aided and abetted by the Australian Democrats, has: introduced anti-union legislation so severe that workers need
BY JENNIFER WANJIRU NAIROBI — Environmentalists in Kenya have threatened court action to stop the filming of the US television show Survivor Series III, that formally begins on July 1 and runs to September 30. They accuse the filmmakers of
BY DAVE MURPHY & RUTH RATCLIFFE DARWIN — Police will have the power to stop any behaviour they interpret as "anti-social", under new laws introduced into the Northern Territory parliament on June 7. The legislation will also widen police powers
Convincing refutation "... there's an assumption that we're an American company that exports things everywhere else to make a lot of money... Sure, we're everywhere, but so too is ... NBC and CNN." — McDonald's CEO Jack Greenberg. Balanced
BY DAVID BACON OAKLAND, California — Last month 14 men and women left their coffee farms in Veracruz, Mexico, and began the journey north. Within days, their bodies were found on the hardpan of the Sonora desert. At first glance, they died of
BY SARAH STEPHEN In the past few weeks, you'd be forgiven for thinking that non-indigenous women had stopped suffering sexual and domestic violence decades ago. That's because the framework that has been set for the discussion about violence