Links No 23128pp, $8Available at Resistance centres or on-line at <http://www.dsp.org.au/links>.
REVIEW BY BEN COURTICE
The latest issue of Links magazine presents a very focused collection of articles discussing "challenges in uniting
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BY DANNY FAIRFAX
CANBERRA Braving near-zero temperatures, 100 people assembled outside the entrance of the National Convention Centre from 8am on June 24 to protest against the 2003 Defence and Industry conference.
The conference is staged
On June 25, Prime Minister John Howard announced that the cabinet's National Security Committee had decided to send 1200 troops 200 of them combat soldiers and 300 Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers to the Solomon Islands for at
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
SYDNEY Promoting his latest state budget, released on June 24, NSW Labor treasurer Michael Egan has described it as a "true Labor budget", arguing that it fulfils social justice criteria because of the extra outlays in most
BY MURRAY SMITH
PARIS As the danger of a general strike against his planned reform of the pension system receded, French social affairs minister Francois Fillon knew who to thank. He paid tribute to the "responsible attitude" of Bernard
BY KATHERINE BRADSTREET
SYDNEY "Where were the students?", asked the June 20 Sydney Daily Telegraph, in an article by Rachel Morris bemoaning the small numbers of young people that attended the "welcome home" parade of troops who served in
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BY DOUG LORIMER
Student leaders held sit-ins on June 22 in front of the Iranian parliament (Majlis) and inside Tehran University to protest the detention of classmates following violent attacks on student protests the previous week by pro-clerical
BY JIM MCILROY
GLASGOW Six weeks after the Scottish Socialist Party increased its representation in the Scottish Parliament from one to six MSPs, the SSP's network for young people Scottish Socialist Youth (SSY) held its second
BY LACHLAN HARRIS After declaring "the circle sentencing pilot in Nowra has been fantastically successful", New South Wales attorney-general Bob Debus has announced plans to roll out circle sentencing across the state. Next month, Dubbo will be the
Forty workers at Morris McMahon will return to work on July 1 after almost 16 weeks on strike. They have won union recognition and a registered agreement, a 5% pay rise each year for three years and a 19-day work month. Photo by Celine Brun.
The federal Labor opposition's cave-in over the federal government's draconian ASIO bill is a dangerous mistake, warned John Van der Velden, a national co-convener of the Socialist Alliance on June 27.
"In the name of fighting terrorism, ASIO is
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