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1. Attend the meeting at 10 mile Bush Camp, Coober Pedy, South Australia, September 29 to October 1, an invitation to all has been extended to all! More information is at <http://www.iratiwanti.org> 2. Join the (women's only) Kungka Tjuta
BY SUE BULL MELBOURNE — Talk to any Victorian teacher and you are likely to get the same story — the job's getting harder. Most of us are working longer hours, with more responsibilities and our pay rate is barely moving. More teachers are
BY ANGELA PINK PORT AUGUSTA — Students from Port Augusta secondary school attempted to teach federal immigration minister Philip Ruddock a lesson, in a performance they did at the Port Augusta Croc Festival on September 3. The Croc Festivals
BY ROBERTO JORQUERA Since the election of Hugo Chavez in 1998 as the president of Venezuela, a process of fundamental social change has been unfolding in that country, called the "Bolivarian revolution" by its supporters. Alvaro Guzman, the
BY PETER BAKER HOBART — On September 11, 150 members of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union (LHMWU) held a march and rally drawing attention to their campaign for smoke-free work places. The protest action was called to put
BY EVA CHENG On September 9, the Zapatista National Liberation Army's Subcomandante Marcos addressed protesters who had gathered to oppose the World Trade Organisation's September 10-14 ministerial meeting in Cancun, Mexico. He pointed out that the
Broad anti-war coalition needed I must disagree with Tariq Ali in his opening statement of the interview in Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Weekly #551 where he sums up the entire anti-Vietnam War movement. I was a participant in that movement and in Australia I
CHRIS BAMBERY, national secretary of the British Socialist Workers Party (SWP), spoke to Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Weekly's PETER BOYLE on September 5. Bambery was in Sydney to attend the International Socialist Organisation's Marxism 2003 conference. How big is
BY EVA CHENG On September 5, the Hong Kong government indefinitely shelved its highly controversial anti-subversion law (Article 23 of the Basic Law, the territory's quasi-constitution) after a series of massive protests since December. Article 23
Iraqi refugees protest deportation threat BRISBANE — Iraqi refugees and their supporters rallied in King George Square on September 11 to protest the federal government's refugee policies and demand full rights for temporary protection
BY HUW ELLIS UK-based DJ Adam Freeland's debut album Now & Them, with its killer single "We Want Your Soul", will be released in Australia on September 29. With Now & Them, Freeland has spread his wings well beyond the dance floor. The album's
Delegates to the annual British Trade Union Congress conference on September 10 unanimously backed a motion calling for "work through the United Nations for the withdrawal without delay of coalition troops and for control of Iraq to be given to the