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CHOGM Action Network launched, plans march

BY TIM STEWART BRISBANE — Members of 20 organisations came together on June 26 to plan protests outside the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane. The meeting unanimously decided that a march "to the gates of CHOGM" on the

Staff ready for strike action

BY SHUA GARFIELD HOBART — Teaching staff at the University of Tasmania have voted to hold a 24-hour strike on July 18 after negotiations between the National Tertiary Education Union and university administration on a new enterprise agreement

Lismore Socialist Alliance hits the streets for refugee rights

LISMORE — Chanting "no-one is illegal, free the refugees!" 20 Socialist Alliance members and supporters held a speakout on June 26 to highlight the federal Coalition government's (and ALP opposition's) policy of locking up refugees in remote

Socialist campaign hits the ground running

By David Glanz, Aston by-election campaign manager "Scrap the GST — vote Socialist Alliance!" That's the message SA supporters have been taking to the streets of Aston for the past six weeks. The Aston federal by-election on July 14 is our

Unionist returns to work, triumphant

BY SANDY WHELAN ADELAIDE — "It's probably the first time I've ever really enjoyed a whole day at work", postal worker John McGill said of his first day back at Adelaide Mail Centre after winning an appeal against unfair dismissal on June 25.

SOUTH KOREA: Strikes follow arrest of union leaders

BY IGGY KIM The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions has called its members out for a one-day national strike on July 5, in a determined response to an unprecedented wave of government repression which has included the arrest of several top union

South Coast to fight on against Carr

BY STUART MARTIN WOLLONGONG — In stark contrast to the vague talk from officials in meetings elsewhere, the South Coast Labor Council's June 27 stopwork meeting on the campaign to save WorkCover debated a definite course of action — and was

SUDAN: US weighs oil against human rights

BY DAN CONNELL Secretary of State Colin Powell's recent four-country tour of Africa produced a flurry of press coverage on renewed US interest in ending the 18-year Sudan civil war. Despite US President George W. Bush's nomination of a special

People before profits!

By Ian Rintoul & Dick Nichols, national convenors, Socialist Alliance The Socialist Alliance was formed last February by nine socialist organisations to meet the burning need for a real alternative in Australian politics: An alternative for all

Firefighters' union dumps Labor

BY TOM FLANAGAN "Whilst we might be the first trade union to walk away from the ALP this week, we also hope for the sake of injured workers in this state that we won't be the last", said Chris Read, the secretary of the NSW Fire Brigade Employees'

SPAIN: World Bank stays away, masses don't

BY SEAN HEALY Not even a decision by the World Bank to cancel its Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics was enough to divert the anger of 40,000 Catalans, who on June 24 demonstrated against the World Bank and its devotion to corporate

UNITED STATES: San Diego marches for 'biojustice'

BY SEAN HEALY Some of the world's largest corporations came under fire in the southern Californian city of San Diego on June 24, when 1600 environmentalists marched on the annual convention of the Biotechnology Industry Organisation, to protest