BY ALISON DELLIT
Despite a Newspoll
indicating that public opposition to a war on Iraq has not been dented
by the Bali bombings, Prime Minister John Howard has strengthened indications
that Australians will be part of any US-led war on
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Illawarra anti-war rally
WOLLONGONG On November 2, 350 people attended a rally and march to stop the war on Iraq. Speakers included South Coast Labour Council secretary Arthur Rorris, Amy Parish from NoWar, Doreen Burrow from the
BY TIM KIRCHLER
One purpose of the Socialist Alliance as an electoral alliance is to raise the profile of socialists and socialism by means of its participation in election campaigns. We need to create widespread awareness of what our tradition of
No to Bush's war on Iraq! That message rang out at huge protests at
both ends of the United States on October 26, and in smaller demonstrations
across the country. More than 100,000 people turned out on October 26 in
Washington, DC, for the
Only one bowler has ever knocked the bat out of the hands of Don Bradman, cricket's greatest batter: Eddie Gilbert. Only 15 bowlers have ever dismissed Bradman without a run to his name. Eddie Gilbert was one of them. Yet, whilst Bradman played test cricket for Australia for two decades, Gilbert was never selected to play at the sport's highest level.
In the largest
protest march in El Salvador's history, at least 200,000 Salvadorans, or
4% of the nation's population, completely shut down the country's capital,
San Salvador, on October 24 as they took to the streets in the second white
BY JIM GREEN
A new study by the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (SEEN), a branch of the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies, reveals that the World Bank provided over US$24 billion in corporate welfare for 229 fossil fuel projects
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON - Graham
Greene once described a "subterranean world, where the hopes and dreams
of the mass of the people reside, unconnected with the rarefied world above,
until those above take one step too far". There is a
BY EVA CHENG
Created in 1989 to help break Third World resistance to the Uruguay Round of trade talks, the 21-country Asia Pacific Economic and Cooperation (APEC) forum plunged into near irrelevance in 1997 when the economic crisis hit Asia.
But
BY SIMON BUTLER
SYDNEY Dozens of high school student activists from Sydney, Wollongong and the NSW Central Coast have pledged to support the November 14 march and high-school walkout against the impending war on Iraq and the exploitative
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART In
the largest of several anti-war protests held around the country, 2000
people marched through the Tasmanian state capital on November 2. Green
triangles, Socialist Alliance No war on Iraq placards, union
BY SARAH STEPHEN
A woman told the November 1 Illawarra Mercury that she has stopped wearing her traditional hijab headscarf after suffering five years of taunts and abuse. She is not alone. Many Muslim and Arab Australians are bracing for an
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