BY TIM GOODEN
GEELONG What could only be described as a David and Goliath battle
looks likely to end in a fall for giant energy corporation AES. On March
15, AES announced it was not proceeding with the construction of a gas-and-kerosene
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ALP trickle will become a flood
The response of rank-and-file unionists to Victorian Electrical Trades
Union leader Dean Mighell's resignation from the Labor Party was predictable:
Good on yer mate, it's about time! They don't want
BY FAROOQ TARIQ
LAHORE — The national committee of the Labour Party Pakistan, meeting March 16-17, decided that the party should help form a united socialist electoral alliance in Pakistan.
Left-wing political parties, trade unions and social
BY KATE WILSON
Refugees, often fleeing war, poverty or government repression, risk
their lives getting to Australia. They are then locked up in detention
centres for months, sometimes years, in totally inhumane conditions. Australia
BY DICK NICHOLS
BARCELONA — The organisers said 500,000, the press said 350,000 and the police said 250,000. The organisers expected around 50,000 people to turn up at the protest; up to 8% of the population of Catalonia came. Not even the most
BY EDWARD JOHNSTONE
MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance received 1608 votes in the six wards it contested in Moreland and Darebin council elections held in March.
In the city of Moreland, candidate for Merri ward Judy McVey received 374 votes,
BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD
Could it be that the very long prison sentences handed down to the five Cubans falsely accused of espionage were aimed at protecting Miami terrorist circles and dissuading any person or group who wants to counteract those
Bob Crow, newly elected general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, RMT">
ENGLAND: Socialist Alliance holds trade union conference
LONDON — The first trade union conference organised by the Socialist
We also decide who's a 'democratic nation'
"With respect to democratic nations that are friends of ours, we only go where we are invited." — US Secretary of State Colin Powell, March 21.
Too bad for everyone who's not
"Not only will we win
Racist cops
I finished brushing the paste on yet another Resistance "No War" poster, we rounded the corner and saw two police striding quickly, straight at us. "Cops" someone muttered as we all instinctively about faced and walked back round the
BY ALISON DELLIT
In
the biggest show of solidarity with asylum seekers yet seen in Australia,
more than 45,000 people attended Palm Sunday marches around the country
on March 24, calling for freedom and justice for refugees.
More than
BY LINDA WALDRON& NATALIE ZIRNGAST
MELBOURNE — Workers at Flair Menswear Preston, manufacturers of Hugo Boss fashions, held a victory barbecue on the morning of March 18, after a two-week picket.
A planned solidarity sausage sizzle at the
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