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Western suburbs refugee group launched

MELBOURNE — Fifty people crammed into Hendersons Cafe to launch the West Welcomes Refugees postcard campaign on September 21. The postcards, designed by Viv Mehes and featuring students from Footscray City College, allow Western suburbs

BRITAIN: The lesson of 9/11

BY JOHN PILGER LONDON — The anniversary of September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the US were remembered with highly charged images, especially those of the grieving families of the victims. The respect and sympathy owed to these suffering

Battle for union democracy hits elections, courts

BY STUART MARTIN MELBOURNE — As the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union's Victorian branch approaches a round of organiser elections, the court case on democracy in the union has continued another week without a decision being made as to who

WEST PAPUA: Mounting evidence TNI behind Freeport killings

BY JAMES BALOWSKI Three weeks after the fatal shooting of two Americans and an Indonesian from the Freeport gold and copper mine in Indonesia's eastern-most province of West Papua, the identity of the perpetrators is still unclear. Indonesian

'Socialist Alliance must lead fight for democratic rights'

BY ALISON THORNE [The following is the text of a talk given at a panel at the International Socialist Organisation's Marxism 2002 conference held in Melbourne, September 6-8. Alison Thorne spoke on behalf of the Freedom Socialist Party, one

Anti-war organising to be focus of Resistance conference

BY LEIGH HUGHES Refugee activists, trade union militants, free education campaigners and socialists by the trainload are to gather at Trades Hall this weekend to discuss and further their respective struggles. They will be attending the 31st

Brunswick mobilises against Blackshirts

BY MERYAN TOZER MELBOURNE — "The terrible history of the last century tells us that fascist movements have to be fought when they emerge — if they are allowed to grow it is too late", anti-Blackshirt campaigner Riki Lane told 200 people at

Will ARTV be censored?

BY SIMON TAYLER SYDNEY — Every Sunday night, Channel 31's Actively Radical TV (ARTV) program includes The Palestine Report, a segment on the conflict in Palestine. The report presents viewers with a point of view that the mainstream media

Auburn opposes war

SYDNEY — More than 100 protesters rallied in the western Sydney suburb of Auburn on September 20, opposing any war on Iraq. The protest was organised by the Socialist Alliance, which decided on September 17 to run local activist Roberto

GERMANY: How Greens sold out on nuclear power

BY JOCHEN STAY BERLIN — Looking back now at the promises made by the German Green Party and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) during the 1998 election campaign, it is clear that the record of the SPD-Green coalition government on nuclear power

Evolve wins low-key elections

BY STUART MUNCKTON CANBERRA — In a low-key Australian National University Students Association (ANUSA) elections, held September 9-12, the Evolve ticket won all executive positions, National Union of Students (NUS) delegate positions and

BRAZIL: Referendum rejects FTAA

BY IGGY KIM Of the 10,149,542 Brazilians who participated in a week-long unofficial referendum on the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), 9,979,964 (98.33%) voted against Brazil joining the US-dominated economic bloc. The