Australia's First SocialistsBy Jim McIlroyResistance Books 2003, $5.95Available at Resistance bookshops (addresses page 2) or order at <http://www.resistancebooks.com>
REVIEW BY JOHN NEBAUER
Radical politics in Australia did not begin
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BY ADELE OLIVERI
ROME — On October 24, more than 10 million workers stopped work and more than 1 million took to the streets across Italy in a four-hour general strike. Called by the country's three main union federations, the strike was in
BY PETER BOYLE
At its annual general meeting on October 30, Kerry and James Packer's PBL company announced it had paid $3.4 billion in bonuses to its executives. But while the greedy scum that run PBL stack away their coins, other Australians are
BY SARAH STEPHEN
John Howard must be proud of NSW Labor Premier Bob Carr, though he might never admit it. Howard and Carr see eye to eye on so many issues, most particularly the supposed imminent threat of terrorism in Australia and the calculated
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN — On October 31, members of the Darwin Homebirth Group rallied to demand the provision of homebirth midwife services as part of the Northern Territory public hospital system.
In July, NT health minister Jane Aagaard
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — Former nuclear physicist and social justice campaigner Dr Vandana Shiva was the guest presenter for a forum at Sydney University on October 20, entitled "Beyond Corporate Globalisation, towards Earth Democracy".
Shiva,
BY AARON BENEDEK
SYDNEY — Against considerable opposition from right-wing members of the local Turkish-Australian community in the western suburb of Auburn, the Youth and Solidarity Group held a local protest rally against the war in Iraq on
In GLW #559, the photograph of the Hobart protest against US President George Bush on page five was incorrectly credited to Alex Bainbridge. The picture was taken by Duncan Meerding.From 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, November 5, 2003.
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BY MARCUS GREVILLE
LONDON — On October 29, at a crammed public meeting called by the Stop the War Coalition, the call was made for the creation of a new united party to challenge the British Labour Party in the 2004 London Assembly and European
Ariel Guides is a leader of the Freedom From Hunger Coalition, which organises 22,000 sugar workers, as well as small farmers, on the island of Negros in the Philippines. He is also a leader of the socialist trade union centre Solidarity of
BY EVA CHENG
Democratic expectations in Taiwan have surged with President Chen Shui-bian's promotion of plebiscites to ascertain the views of the island's 23 million people on "major social issues".
Chen became Taiwan's second popularly elected
Glasgow MP George Galloway, an outspoken opponent of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's decision to back the US-led invasion of Iraq, was expelled from the Labour Party on October 23. Galloway was found guilty by a Labour Party disciplinary
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