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1. Protesters say no to Campbell ‘Nuke-man’

   Executive Building on the morning of October 29 in a fiery protest against Premier Campbell Newman’s recent ... protest called for a complete ban on uranium mining in the state. Uranium has not been mined in Queensland ... with a welcome to country and stressed the environmental impacts of uranium mining and its impacts on ...

2. Socialist candidate calls for free train travel

   prioritised spending more than $300 million on refurbishing the state's tennis centre, while public ... welfare teacher. She was part of the Dump Connex campaign in 2009, campaigning on train platforms and in ... is an active union member, has taken part in anti-war collectives and campaigns for civil liberties, ...

3. Socialist Alliance organises against Howard in Victoria

   Discussion at the conference focused on the June 30 rally called by a mass union delegates' meeting. ... discuss motions for the conference to vote on. The union fight-back workshop had the largest attendance ... and discussed a range of ideas on how to strengthen union mobilisation. The workshop presented motions ...

4. Global solidarity with refugees

   Australian government’s refugee policy. In Auckland, New Zealand on January 26, activists picketed the ... for February 15. Anti-globalisation protesters mobilising against the World Economic Forum on January ... Solidarity Conference, to be held March 29-April 1 in Sydney. On March 31, conference participants from more ...

5. MALAYSIA: Acehnese refugees to be deported

   Bambang Yudhoyono welcomed the Malaysian government's decision. On August 19, Malaysian police ... rounded up more than 400 Acehnese, including women and children, outside the UNHCR office in Kuala Lumpur. ... The refugees had fled the Indonesian government's war in Aceh and were trying to apply for ...

6. Mike Leigh versus Gaffer Reeves

   Oedipus Rex, Lysistrata and so on. Or Shakespeare's plays. Rather than their modern equivalent: ... which shows that we can fight city hall, enjoy the fight and win. Lysistrata's women say: no sex if ... no peace — and they stop the war. These comedies take a great deal of talent. Mike Leigh's got ...

7. The uprising at US airports

   anti-Trumpist protests Donald Trump It did not take Donald Trump long to begin the war on immigrants, refugees ... The Trump administration says it adopted the list from Obama administration actions in the “war on ... and Muslims that he promised during his presidential campaign. On January 27, he signed an executive ...

8. Letter from the US: Why police can kill with impunity

   the killing. Having more Blacks and women on police forces is not the answer. Justice denied Will ... demonstrations have received the most coverage. Before he was shot dead on September 20, Keith Scott, ... footage of confrontations to the public. This law took effect on October 1, a few days after the release ...

9. Sri Lanka: Humanitarian disaster in concentration camps

   Lankan government over the last three years of its escalating war on Tamils. Britain sold more than £13.6 ... more than 30,000 Tamils were killed. In May, the government declared victory in its 26-year long war ... against the LTTE. Prison camps Tamil refugees displaced by the war have been rounded up and held against ...

10. Tamils still face repression in Sri Lanka

    campaigning for an international war crimes investigation, and for a referendum amongst Sri Lankan Tamils on ... founder of the Eelam Tamil Association of Victoria, at Monash University on August 25. Newman was speaking ... on democracy in south Asia. He began by outlining some common features of the south Asian countries ...

11. Socialist Alliance conference to prepare for struggle

    with desperate victims of war and oppression. Howard's "Pacific solution" is now ... on the evening of January 2 called "Their crises: our solutions". It will introduce some of ... January 3-5 will introduce resolutions on: the political situation; socialist electoral strategy and ...

12. Tamil refugees face deportation

    The World Today on March 12. Tamils have been escaping Sri Lanka since the government waged ... a full-scale war against the Tamil struggle for independence, which resulted in the massacre of 30,000 people. ... When the bloody war ended in May, more than 300,000 Tamils were locked in government-run concentration ...

13. Socialist Alliance

    have joined the alliance. Campaigning for refugees' rights and against the impending war on Iraq ... Johnston and the “Skilled Six” on September 2 at Trades Hall. The Skilled Six are a group of AMWU officials ... Skilled Engineering. Justine Kamprad, an AMWU women's committee member and speaker at the meeting, ...

14. OUR COMMON CAUSE: Why are the 'good guys' torturing Iraqi prisoners?

    commenting on the pictures of Iraqis being tortured, stated, "Their treatment does not reflect the ... bit." British PM Tony Blair went on record as saying the behaviour shown was in "direct ... Vietnam is well known. The shooting of women and children in the village of My Lai is but one incident in ...

15. Washington's 'anti-terrorist' terrorists

    "Throughout the civil war... the major factions on all sides have repeatedly committed serious human rights ... "Massoud's troops went on a rampage, systematically looting whole streets and raping women"; and On ... Washington dishonestly justified its war against the Afghan people in the name of fighting for ...

16. The state of Israel's bloody foundations

    and deadly pogroms of late 19th century in Europe, had finally settled on Palestine, fraudulently ... costly and unruly colonies after World War II, handed over Palestine to the UN in 1947, the Zionists ... expulsion of the Palestinians were the statesmen and women of the subsequent Jewish state — including prime ...

17. Vote for the socialists!

    of rallies against Israel's war on Lebanon and Palestine. A social worker, Margarita has ... trade unionist and anti-war activist. For many years she has been concerned about the attacks on public ... greed of a handful of mega-millionaires. A society based on satisfying human need is totally realistic. ...

18. Peru: Blood for rubber, blood for oil

    Capitalising on this profitable opportunity, the agents of an international consortium known as the ... and reduce labour costs. Over a decade, tens of thousands of indigenous men, women and children were ... nothing to eat;... that they rob them their crops; their women, and their children to satisfy their ...

19. Palestinians face expulsion from Jerusalem

    from reaching jobs in Israel. In Hebron, the Israelis have imposed a curfew on the 20,000 Palestinian ... town. On March 21, a suicide bomber attacked a Tel Aviv cafe. Although the Islamic group Hamas has not ... units on Palestinian land in the south-east corner of East Jerusalem. The plan is eventually to house ...

20. How Labor helped re-elect Howard

    US war on the Afghan people. Carr factor Even the ALP's attempts to paint itself as the party of ... Those unions that, although disagreeing with the ALP's stance on the refugees and the war, poured ... BY ALISON DELLIT Watching Kim Beazley fall on his sword on November 10, I was struck by how ...

21. SOUTH AFRICA: The real state of the nation

    arms manufacturer Denel continues to export arms to dictators and countries at war. On its website, the ... delivered on February 3 in Cape Town at the highly militarised opening of parliament, was a further blow for ... Corporation's fashion commentator skilfully scrutinised the numerous trendy outfits worn by the elite on the ...

22. Barbed wire: a symbol of oppression

    toll on women and children behind the makeshift barbed-wire perimeters. Death rates soared into the ... be said, on account of the white victims). The battlefields of the Western Front during World War One ... of dispossession on the Australian frontier. During the same period, barbed wire was increasingly ...

23. The Russian Revolution: the revolution capitalists still fear

    it was overthrown in a civil war in which the French ruling class was assisted by its German ... "enemy". The Russian Revolution lasted seven decades before it succumbed to war, imperialist encirclement, ... created by the revolution was able to extract Russia from the world war — something which the capitalist ...

24. INDIA: 15,000 demand global justice at Asian Social Forum

    especially Washington's imminent war on Iraq, and moves by repressive regimes in Asia to use it as an ... BY EVA CHENG The first Asia-wide "social forum" was held in Hyderabad, India, on January ... off with 10,000-strong "people's march" on January 3 and closed with a rally of more ...

25. PAKISTAN: Musharraf fails to get majority despite vote rigging

    its loyal ally in the War on Terror. Ignoring the widespread allegations of irregularities, a US State ... failed to achieve a majority in the country's National Assembly (lower house) election on October ... — Punjab, Sindh, North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Balochistan — was also held on the same day. The ...

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