BY KYLIE MOON
MELBOURNE — The October 30 flag-burning action at Melbourne University, organised by Socialist Alternative, has attracted nationwide media attention, and much corporate media condemnation.
The 100-strong action involved the
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BY NORM DIXON
Prior to Turkey's November 3 general election, polls indicated that the radical Democratic Peoples Party (DEHAP) looked set to cross the 10% threshold necessary for parliamentary representation. However, media censorship, state
Activists met at the Lismore Workers Club on October 31 to organise
opposition to war on Iraq. Called No War on Iraq, the group is planning
a march and rally at Lismore's Spinks Park at 10am on November 30.
Pictured are the activists
BY EVA CHENG
A broad spectrum of anti-globalisation activist groups and non-government
organisations meeting in Mexico City on November 15-16 decided to organise
protests in opposition to the World Trade Organisation's next ministerial
BY JIM GREEN
The federal government's plan to build a national nuclear dump in South Australia has hit another hurdle with the leaking of a document outlining plans for a $300,000 propaganda campaign in the coming months.
The Department of
BY GRANT COLEMAN
WOLLONGONG
— Fifteen students from six local high schools came together on October
28 to form the Illawarra High School Student Social Action Network.
The network was formed to “encourage students to call for human
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE — A video and discussion night on the continuing US/UN war
against Iraq was held in the Paddington Workers Club on November 7. It
featured a talk by researcher Pauline Rigby on the horrific results of
US/UN
BY NORM DIXON
US President
George Bush has cynically exploited the 9/11 terror attacks to launch a
blatant drive to finally realise the long-held dream of the United States
capitalist ruling class: an “American Century” (as the goal was
And ain't i a woman: Laws continue to fail women
Recently, a woman in NSW was awarded $500,000 in damages for physical abuse she endured during her marriage. Because of the abuse, the woman suffers from deep vein thrombosis and has permanent
Anti-war recruitment centre
MELBOURNE — Twenty-six activists occupied an army recruitment centre on November 6 and transformed it into an anti-war recruitment centre. Posters were stuck on the windows, while activists campaigned outside.
BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY — Activists
planning demonstrations during the World Trade Organisation (WTO) mini-ministerial
meeting in Sydney, November 14-15, have condemned the NSW Labor government's
plans to prohibit street marches during the
BY JACK SMITH
NEW PALTZ,
New York — On October 26, the ANSWER [Act Now to Stop War and End Racism]
coalition mobilised hundreds of thousands in Washington, San Francisco
and well over 100 other cities in the US and abroad against the Bush
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