NEWCASTLE - Seven-hundred people rallied outside Newcastle railway station on December 5 to oppose state transport minister Michael Costa and Newcastle Mayor John Tate's campaign to close the rail line into Newcastle. The rally marched to the
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In May, the Socialist Alliance national conference adopted a perspective proposed by a non-aligned caucus of 160 SA members to move the alliance towards becoming a united, multi-tendency socialist party. Green Left Weekly's KERRYN WILLIAMS spoke to
BY JOHN TOGNOLINI
SYDNEY — At 140 stop-work meetings across NSW on December 2, members of the NSW Teachers Federation voted by a margin of 98% for stepped-up industrial action in support of their salaries campaign, including a 48-hour strike on
BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY
MOSCOW — A year ago, political life in Russia was like a stagnant swamp. President Vladimir Putin's victory in the presidential election had solved none of the country's problems, while providing ample demonstration that
BY RICHARD FIDLER
OTTAWA — The past year has been a busy one for a new left-wing party, the Union des Forces Progressistes (UFP — Union of Progressive Forces) in Quebec, Canada's French-speaking province.
Founded in 2002, the party fielded
International anti-war campaigner and radical left author Tariq Ali will be speaking at a Green Left Weekly sponsored public meeting "Resistance and empire" at UNSW's Clancy Auditorium on the evening of Friday, March 19 next year. Booking for the
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — "We are facing the murder of Medicare", Doctors Reform Society president Tim Woodruff told 50 people at a public meeting in the town of Dromana, near Melbourne, on December 1.
Woodruff pointed out that Medicare was
From Nothing to Zero: Letters from Refugees in Australia's Detention CentresEdited by Janet Austin; introduction by Julian BurnsideLonely Planet, 2003193 pages, $22 (pb)
BY MAREE KENNY
"What a big joke with human rights. This regime is killing us
BY DUNCAN MEERDING
HOBART — On December 3, the Australian Rail, Tram and Bus Industry Union said 24-hour strikes by Metro bus drivers in Hobart, Launceston and Burnie will take place in the week of December 8-14, after nine months of negotiations
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon PapersBy Daniel EllsbergPenguin, 2003500 pages, $38(pb)
On the evening of October 1, 1969, Daniel Ellsberg left the Rand Corporation offices in California after a busy day. His
On December 4, defence minister Robert Hill announced that the Australian government will participate in making US President George Bush's trillion-dollar National Missile Defence (NMD) shield — better known as "Son of Star Wars" — a reality.
Clarrie Isaacs remembered
My heart sunk at the news of Yaluritja's (Clarrie Isaacs) death. It was a life too short, but so full.
His life was grounded in the Aboriginal community, but managed to weave its way through the socialist left, the trade
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