BY SHANE BENTLEY
US President George Bush has thrown his weight behind the bosses of the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) in their struggle to break the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) which covers 10,500 US west coast dock
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Amerika Psycho: Behind Uncle Sam's Mask of SanityBy Richard NevilleOcean Press, 2002126 pages, $18.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
"The wounded Goliath" (the US after the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001) "is on a rampage — armed to the
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BY DANIEL JARDINE
MELBOURNE — Meeting on October 3-6, the national council of the National
Tertiary Education Industry Union discussed its agenda for the fourth round
of enterprise bargaining with universities. The pattern bargaining
Socialist Alliance I
The value and necessity of a united response from the left on key issues has been borne out during the current debate around asylum seekers. The Socialist Alliance has consistently been present in (and often driving) community
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE —
In a massive outpouring of anger against proposed Australian support for
war on Iraq, 45,000 people rallied on October 13. Jammed shoulder to shoulder
across several city blocks, the participants marched
BY JOHN PERCY
On September 20, the Bush administration released a new National Security Strategy (NSS) document. The document justifies US aggression on a world scale — pre-emptive strikes, "regime change", unilateral action. "We will not
A cosmetic change
Like most ALP conferences during the past three decades, the “special”
rules conference held on October 5-6 was a carefully stage managed affair.
It was designed to bolster the image of federal Labor leader Simon
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — If Tony Blair uses the royal prerogative, "the absolute power of kings", to join George Bush's attack on Iraq, he acts in a manner no different, in principle and deed, from Germany's unprovoked attacks that ignited the
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Fifty Australasian Correctional Management guards at Port Hedland immigration detention centre ended a 12-day strike on October 6, after reaching an agreement with ACM management on increased staffing levels during day and night
BY ALANA KERR
SYDNEY — The US war on the people of Iraq has persisted since 1991, an October 9 public meeting in Bondi Junction, hosted by the Eastern Sydney branch of the Socialist Alliance, was told.
Layla Mohammad, from the Worker
WOLLONGONG — Â鶹ӳ» Weekly's OWEN RICHARDS spoke to CHRIS WILLIAMS, the Socialist Alliance's candidate in the October 19 by-election for the federal seat of Cunningham.
What's the focus of the Socialist Alliance campaign?
We want to make
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