BY
MAX LANE
MANILA More than 450 delegates representing more than 100,000 workers
gathered in Baguio City on September 14-15 to plan out their campaign of
resistance to the neo-liberal globalisation offensive hitting Filipino
workers.
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BY TIM STEWART
BRISBANE When the Cross-Campus Women's Collective heard that the
male magazine FHM was putting on a Miss University competition
at the Tivoli Theatre in Fortitude Valley on September 17, it called for
a protest of the
Palestine is Still the IssueDocumentary by John PilgerThursday, October 8, 8.30pmSBS
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John Pilger's documentary, Palestine is Still the Issue, is a moving and powerful indictment of Israel's illegal occupation of the West
No war on Iraq!
LAUNCESTON Thirty-five people attended a "No war on Iraq!" public forum at the Royal Oak Hotel on September 15, organised by Launceston Socialist Alliance.
Vicki Walker of the Socialist Alliance and Debbie Butler of the
BY PETER ROBSON
NEWCASTLE After a week
of determined campaigning by students, academics and staff, the refugee
sanctuary referendum on Newcastle University finished at 3pm on September
20. More than 700 students voted in the week-long
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY At the first such day-long forum in Sydney for years, 50
activists spent September 15 analysing and debating the many facets of
the backlash against feminism that has been gathering momentum in Australia,
and
BY GABRIEL MOLINA
HAVANA A dispatch from the EFE news agency in July confirmed that a new method of producing the UN report on human development has resulted in Cuba being placed "among the world's least democratic countries, comparable with
BY AMIE HAMILTON
PERTH On September 17, the University of Western Australia Student Guild decided at a special council meeting to hold a referendum on October 22 on whether or not UWA should be declared a refugee safe-haven.
The Student
[The following statement was issued by the national executive of the
Socialist Alliance on September 18.]
We are approaching the moment when the richest country in the world,
with the most powerful armed forces and most destructive arsenal
BY STEVE CILIA
MELBOURNE The September 16 meeting of the Socialist Alliance's
Melbourne branch preselected long-term anti-racist campaigner Arun Pradhan
as its candidate for the seat of Melbourne in the next state election.
Pradhan
BY DARREN JIGGINS
HOBART Three hundred people participated in a rally demanding No
war on Iraq on September 21. The rally was organised by Peace Coalition,
which met for the first time on September 15.
Speakers at the rally included
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY Against the backdrop of a looming US-led war on Iraq, some 300 activists participated in the first Sydney Social Forum on September 20-21.
The SSF hosted 65 workshops and six feature panels. Topics discussed included
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