BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — In a combined mass meeting on October 24, 10,000 construction unionists have decided not to cooperate with the royal commission into the industry set up by the federal government and have backed a united industrial
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BY GILLIAN DAVY
MELBOURNE — The eighth anti-war rally in the six weeks since the September 11 terrorist attacks attracted 400 protesters on October 21, including strong contingents from the Turkish and Kurdish communities.
Speaking to the crowd
Labor won't guarantee job security
On November 1, unionists will gather across Australia to rally for job
security. Such demonstrations are badly needed — the collapse of Ansett,
Qantas' threatened job losses, Coles Myer's mass
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The government released its mid-year budget review on October 17. A
key feature of the review was the allocation of large sums on top of existing
funding for coastal surveillance and detention of asylum seekers arriving
in
BY LEE SUSTAR
CHICAGO — Well-paid academic experts and media pundits are lining up to give Washington an intellectual justification for war. Basically, the justification is that "they hate us".
In a Newsweek magazine cover story, Fareed Zakaria
BY SHUA GARFIELD
HOBART — The Hobart City Council is considering banning the distribution of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly in Elizabeth Mall, one of the city's main public spaces.
Council referred a motion banning the newspaper's distribution back to
Human rights visit cancelled
The visit to Australia by Akin Birdal, leader of the Human Rights Association in Turkey, reported in last week's Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, has had to be cancelled at short notice. Birdal cannot make the trip because of a
Is it true they were ploughing the soldiersinto the ground? An arm, bearing a watchtelling all the time in the world; a faceand a boot indistinguishable in theirhardness; a mathematician movingtowards infinity; a weaver soon lostin the intricate
The following selection of books on the history of the Middle East, Central Asia and the US imperialism's bloody record around the globe provide essential background information for anti-war activists. They are available from most internet
REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM
Links issue 19: "The Future of Revolution"128 pages, $8New Course Publications 2001
In the wake of the terrorist attacks on the United States, President George Bush's edict that "if you are not with us, then you are with
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — An anti-war teach-in on October 27 provided an opportunity to discuss a range of issues confronting the anti-war movement. The teach-in, organised by the Network Opposing War and Racism (NOWAR), was attended by 50 peace
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
The struggle for socialism lost a true friend with the untimely death on October 22 of Bruce Heckinger, aged 50. He died pursuing the sport he loved, paragliding, at Manilla in NSW.
Bruce touched many people's lives, not only in
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