BY DANNY FAIRFAX
More than 300,000 people attended demonstrations, forums, film showings and concerts in the Larzac plateau region of southern France on August 8-10. The Larzac Festival was held under the slogan, Le monde n'est pas une marchandise
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BY ADAM MACLEAN
Attacking public media and people's access to voices other than its own is part of the Coalition government's systematic campaign of suppressing free speech and democratic rights.
Example one: The new anti-terrorism laws are now
BY SETH ACKERMAN
NEW YORK — By the time the war against Iraq began, much of the media had been conditioned to believe, almost as an article of faith, that Saddam Hussein's Iraq was bulging with chemical and biological weapons, despite years of
BY JANICE HART
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — In March and April, during and after the run-up to the US war on Iraq, the Albuquerque Public School (APS) District suspended five high school educators for having signs, flyers or student artwork about
BY IGGY KIM
Buoyed by its success in getting all 16 member-states in the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) to support its colonial-style intervention into the Solomons Islands, Canberra is now pushing for the various "arms of government" among Pacific
[The Socialist Alliance is circulating this petition for use in union meetings. If passed, please email <ne@socialist-alliance.org> to let the alliance know.]
This branch of the [name of union] is committed to defending Medicare, and to
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
LAUNCESTON — The lockout of members of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) employed at the Blue Ribbon Meatworks will enter its 21st week on August 18.
It is the longest lockout in Tasmania's history,
BY RUSSELL PICKERING
PERTH — The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has written to Western Australian police minister Michelle Roberts seeking information about special training being given to six senior regional police
BY DOUG LORIMER
With Iraqi resistance fighters inflicting casualties on the US and British occupation troops almost daily, and with the US administration's justification for invading Iraq — its alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction
NEW YORK — More than 1500 organisations and individuals have endorsed the call by the International Act Now to Stop War and Racism (ANSWER) coalition's call for a massive demonstration in Washington DC on October 25 to demand an end to the US
Bill Game replies
As a show of evenhandedness, it would have been nice to be afforded the same opportunity by Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Weekly (issue #549) to contribute my thoughts on the present [WA CEPU/ETU] election bearing in mind I am held in high regard by
BY KAREN FLETCHER
MELBOURNE — The 2003 Melbourne Writers Festival will open on August 21 with a keynote address by Tariq Ali, the radical London-based author of the anti-imperialist bestseller The Clash of Fundamentalisms.
Ali's address, "War,
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