MELBOURNE — Speak-outs against
a possible war on Iraq were held in three Melbourne suburbs on November
23. The Footscray protest heard from Socialist Alliance candidate for Footscray
Justine Kamprad, Shirley Winton from the Western Suburbs
518
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — "We are a mass movement, we need to look like one" is the idea behind a broadly supported initiative to hold a National People's Refugee Summit in early 2003.
The proposed summit, tentatively scheduled for February 1-2
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — "Building rank-and-file unionism" was the topic of discussion at the first public meeting of the Trade Union Solidarity Committee, which was held on November 19 at Trades Hall. The committee was set up by the Socialist
Episodes directed by Samira Makhmalbaf, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Sean
Penn, Denis Tanovic, Mira Nair, Shohei Imamura, Amos Gitai, Youssef Chahine,
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Idrissa Ouedrago
Now showing at the Nova and Cinema Europa,
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The ALP shut down its working party on refugee policy on November
12, after only two meetings. This is a substantial blow to Labor for Refugees,
which agreed to its membersÂ’ involvement in the working party in return
for a
BY PAUL OBOOHOV
CANBERRA — The Members First rank and file group in the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) is challenging the ALP-aligned Progressive Caucus in elections for department-based section and local region positions in the ACT,
BY DOUG LORIMER
HONG KONG — Seventy pro-democracy protesters staged a rally outside
in the Chater Garden Square next to the local Legislative Council building
on November 17, defying a police warning that the gathering was illegal
BY JEFF SHANTZ
TORONTO — Greenpeace door
canvassers are used to pounding the pavements. Every evening, they walk
kilometres to spread the Greenpeace message of environmental care. However,
the organisations' canvass workers never expected
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — "On November 30, a vote for the Socialist Alliance is the clearest possible vote against war and racism", said Arun Pradhan, Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of Melbourne.
Pradhan, who has been an
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Telling Lies About Hitler: the Holocaust, History and the David Irving TrialBy Richard EvansVerso, 2002326 pages, $37 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
If a self-styled "geographic revisionist" should ever step up to a witness box to sue the Royal
BY PATRICK BOND
JOHANNESBURG — On November 8, James Kilgore, the last fugitive member of the 1970s US terrorist group, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), was arrested in Cape Town. He was known in South Africa as John Pape, the respected left
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