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BY ALISON DELLIT In the mid 1960s, protesters in Australia broke the law just by holding street protests against the Vietnam War. Through persistently defying anti-protest laws, they won the legal right to hold street marches. This is an
A memorial service for poet, feminist and Democratic Socialist Party member Connie Frazer (1925-2002) will be held at 1pm on May 25, at the Box Factory, 59 Regent Street South, Adelaide. All welcome. For more information phone Leslie on
Expensive spoons, some wereborn with; also the worditself sliding as smoothly off the tongue.Then all the substitutes cheap but preciousreflected in eyeshine at Xmas toys, tinselsparklers, stars. But hard glitter of mint-new silver dollarswere
Construction Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, mining and energy division, Tony Maher, Ramallah, SUE BOLTON"> Unions and the war in Palestine Unions and the war in Palestine   BY SUE BOLTON Israel’s brutal
BY MICHELLE BREAR SUVA — Since the flawed August 2001 general election, which legitimised and formalised the 2000 military overthrow of the democratically elected Fiji Labour Party government, Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase has refused to honour
BY JIM GREEN Greenpeace activists blocked the export of illegally logged timber from the Kiunga-Aiambak logging project in western Papua New Guinea on March 12. Volunteers locked themselves onto a barge carrying the timber and also obstructed the
The Great Aussie ScreamPaul BuckberryOrder at <http://www.buckberry.com> REVIEW BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE The Great Aussie Scream is like nothing that I have ever heard before and definitely gets full marks for creativity. The music defies
BY MARGARET GLEESON Labor for Refugees was formed in NSW at the end of 2001, giving expression to the frustration of ordinary ALP members who were increasingly disgusted at the party's anti-refugee policies. One of the main aims of the group has
Tens of thousands rallied in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on May 11 to call for the withdrawal of Israeli soldiers from the Occupied Territories. Police estimated the crowd at about 60,000, while organisers — Peace Now — put the figure at
American alliance All of Australia's defence personnel serving overseas should be withdrawn immediately The revelation by defence minister Senator Hill that our troops in Afghanistan killed three hundred of the enemy without loss and without
BY ALISON DELLIT "Don't believe them when they tell me there ain't no cure. The rich stay healthy, the sick stay poor" — U2's 1988 song God Part II contains a pretty good summary of the Howard government's seventh budget, delivered on May 14.
BY KAMALA EMANUEL HOBART — Hundreds of people have attended refugee solidarity activities here in recent weeks. This bodes well for a major rally against the mandatory detention of asylum seekers on June 22. On May 2, 250 people attended a