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Stuart Munckton Staff and students at Sydney's Davidson High School have come under attack for their performance in this year's Rock Eisteddfod, which criticises the war on Iraq. On August 6, Socialist Alliance NSW Senate candidate Kylie Moon
Michael McDonald, Brisbane On August 3, a public meeting at City Hall on the theme "Australia at the Crossroads" was attended by 800 people. The meeting called for "Howard out", but also for any new government to govern in the interests of all
Kerryn Williams On August 3, the Labor parliamentary caucus formally decided to endorse the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement, despite sustained opposition from unions, community groups and the ALP's own left faction. The same day, US President
Amanda Zivcic, Wollongong Wollongong Resistance and Illawarra Socialist Alliance have embarked on a joint campaign to lower the voting age to 16. Raffaele Fantasia, a year-11 student at Edmund Rice College, told Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Weekly: "Young people
Bushwhacked: Life in George. W. Bush's AmericaBy Molly Ivins & Lou DuboseAllison and Busby & Wakefield Press, 2004$22.95(pb) REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER In a well-known passage of the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels comment on how
Doug Cameron, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national secretary: "It is quite clear we will not be in a position to put substantial financial or physical resources behind the [Labor] Party as a whole, because the parliamentary caucus has
John Tognolini On May 10, 1989 the Cockatoo Island Dockyard shop committee, representing 13 unions, announced the occupation of the island in response to a decision by the Hawke Labor government to sell off the site. The dispute would last for 14
Sue Bull, Geelong On July 31, militant unionists from Melbourne and Ballarat converged on Geelong for a day of discussions with local unionists about how to build unions that are fighting instruments in defence of their members' economic and