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
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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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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 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
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
BY KARL MILLER
MELBOURNE — Philippines sugar workers leader Ariel Guides has been warmly welcomed by the trade union movement and rank-and-file workers during his October 28-31 visit here. Guides is a leader of the Solidarity of Philippines
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — More than 10,000 unionists, mostly members of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), marched from the Sydney Town Hall to NSW parliament on October 27 to demand tough industrial manslaughter laws to
BY PAULA ABOOD & ALISSAR GAZAL
"I've always maintained that [we women] have a more fair approach to the truth and to the integrity of other human beings, because we serve life and peace" — Hanan Ashrawi on ABC Radio, October 22, 2003.
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The federal Coalition government's $1 billion plan to "save" Medicare has been widely exposed as a wolf in sheep's clothing — a set of changes that would radically change Medicare from providing universal health care to little more than a safety
SYDNEY — Treasures of Palestine showcases a wide selection of traditional material ranging from costumes, jewellery and ceramics to mother-of-pearl inlay work, posters, photography and olive-wood sculptures. Through these objects, visitors to the
BY BEN COURTICE
MELBOURNE — US left journalist David Barsamian explained, denounced and ridiculed the US President George Bush's "war on terror" to a full house at RMIT's Horti Hall on October 30.
Barsamian, a veteran activist and radio
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