Freedom of speech under a cloud
ADELAIDE — On May 14, Adelaide's Murdoch-owned sole daily paper, the Advertiser, reported that the Adelaide City Council had passed new by-laws that place restrictions on the "handing out of advertising material
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Dave Andrews, Fremantle
Angered by provisions in the federal budget attacking the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, the Fremantle branch of the Socialist Alliance is urging solidarity with the union.
Ian Jamieson, a wharfie, member
BY SARAH STEPHEN
On May 4, US left-liberal filmmaker Michael Moore was told that Miramax Films had been instructed by its owner, the Walt Disney Company, not to distribute Moore's new film, Fahrenheit 9/11, in North America.
"I would have hoped
Peter Boyle
The third national conference of the Socialist Alliance, held in Melbourne on May 8-9, confirmed that the SA is here to stay, is growing and is taking further steps towards becoming a multi-tendency socialist party.
Some 133 delegates
Kim Bullimore, Melbourne
More than 500 Aboriginal people and supporters rallied outside the Victorian state parliament on May 10 to protest the proposed abolition of ATSIC and cuts to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander services. Both the
Carlene Wilson
Mario Bango is 21 years old. Since March 2001 he has been locked up in a Slovak prison. Mario is a Roma, one of a substantial ethnic minority spread across Eastern Europe. His crime? When he was 18, Bango defended his younger brother
Greg Wilton, vice-president of the WA Electrical Trades Union:
Craig Johnston led from the front, not from behind. He got out there and stood up for workers' rights and against the casualisation of the work force. The fact that these charges have
Doesn't keep count of cannon fodder
"It's approximately 500, of which — I can get the exact numbers — approximately 350 are combat deaths." — US deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz, April 29, responded at a US House of Representatives
John Pilger
When I first went to report the US war against Vietnam in the 1960s, I visited the Saigon offices of the great US newspapers and TV companies, and the international news agencies.
I was struck by the similarity of displays on many of
Dave Riley
The Socialist Alliance national conference registered a significant orientation in the politics of SA with several initiatives taken up to consolidate the role of non-aligned members (those not belonging to one of the affiliate
Socialist Alliance national co-convenor and Wills candidate David Glanz addressed the May 7 SA national conference launch. The following is abridged from his speech.
Glenroy, in the Wills electorate, isn't one of the poorest working-class suburbs,
Andrew Martin, Brisbane
Just days before the ballot opened for the position of Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Queensland branch secretary on April 28, lawyers acting on behalf of the incumbent candidate, Andrew Dettmer, sent a letter to
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