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NT protest house: union solidarity with Aboriginal struggle
Australia have already been inspired by the Alyawarr people's walk-off. On July 14, following a great ... including the National Tertiary Education Industry Union and the Maritime Union of Australia. The MUA also ... people at the camp had more comfortable shelters. Unionists worked alongside community members to reclaim ...
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COVER STORY: Howard must face the people!
What should Australia's huge anti-war movement be doing now that the war against Iraq has ... begun? To get the views of the Socialist Alliance, Australia's main left organisation, Â鶹´«Ã½ ... are feeling enormous anger and shame at Australia's involvement in what they see as a criminal ...
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North Queensland's hidden history
class struggles and social upheavals in Australia have occurred." T he first of the upheavals that ... town of Barcaldine. It was Australia's first May Day demonstration. Ultimately, however, the ... members of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) in August 1920. This laid the foundations for the next ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
Action actions; International Women's Day; pro-choice activities; Reclaim the Night, Child-Care ... Australia-Cuba Friendship Society; Australian Aid for Ireland; Renfrey Clarke's speaking tour on politics in ... Students in Australia; etc. All members of the DSP in Adelaide are full-time workers or students, ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
A of the Timor Gap, the area now jointly administered between Australia and Indonesia: BHP Petroleum ... (Australia), INPEX Timor Sea Ltd (Japan), Santos (Australia), Shell Development (UK/Netherlands), Woodside ... Petroleum (Australia), BP Timor Gap East Pty Ltd (UK), Sagasco (Australia), Petroz (Australia), Enterprise ...
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Denmark: Police brutalise climate protesters
of Bolivia, chanting the theme of the protest, "Reclaim Power!" The delegates were ... a party that night. Simon Sheikh, national director of Australia's GetUp! lobby organisation, watched ... not often used in Australia involved the Danish police arresting protest organisers and high-profile ...
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John Pilger: Washington's war on democracy
began his career in 1958 in his homeland, Australia, before moving to London in the 1960s. He has been ... its "democracy builders" go to reclaim their "vision"? Latin America. The result ... [The War on Democracy will be released in British cinemas on June 15. It will be released in Australia ...
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VENEZUELA: Revolutionary unionists get organised
sacking workers. We are organising mobilisations and reclaiming the rights of these workers in the public ... countries, including Australia. The best form of solidarity [with Venezuela] is not only to organise ... The fight that is now developing in Australia assists the struggles of the underdeveloped countries as ...
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Revolutionary thinking in the brave new world
the governments of the US, Britain, Australia and many other countries as a pretext to quell civil ... A nation whose success in reclaiming property for public use and collective control is surely Cuba, whose ... next six months. Links is published by the Democratic Socialist Party, in Australia. Many of the ...
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West Papua: Indonesia's brutal colonialism
mining and forestry companies from around the world, including Australia. These companies support ... Indonesian forces work together to keep West Papuans from reclaiming their land. The greatest concentration ... Australia, Asia and the Pacific to raise awareness of West Papua's situation and the goals of the OPM. ...
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How to fix public transport
Australia's greenhouse emissions. Road transport currently accounts for 21% of Australia's carbon dioxide ... as Critical Mass and Smogbusters and the recent Reclaim the Streets festivals put forward ...
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Tahiti's independence movement revives
spread out over an area the equivalent of Australia. The referendum passed with 64% in favour. The French ... traditional way of life to come to the Tahiti urban zone", he explained. Land was reclaimed from the ... these governments to support independence for French colonies in the Pacific. "That Australia ...
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Kavita Krishnan: 'Women’s liberation, everyone’s liberation'
on in Australia. Some groups on the left were feeling Reclaim The Night marches would focus on ...
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Bolivia: Between Mother Earth and an ‘extraction economy’
the world among them, imperialist countries such as the United States and Australia have used their ... government has reclaimed state control over gas and mineral reserves and nationalised 13 companies involved ...
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WTO protests: ALP march ban defeated
by anarchist and autonomist ideas, the Reclaim the Streets contingent, the Yellow Bloc, initiated by ... Australia's refugee prisons. Passers-by waved, shouted and tooted their support all along the way. Before they ...
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Labor flounders rightward
led by the trade unions, to expose the lie that workers in Australia are worse off because of ... significant influence over party economic policy. The ALP's further movement to the right — to reclaim ...
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Why abortion is a woman's right
Australia today, 10% of the women eligible to claim a Medicare rebate for an abortion do not do so ... difference between a baby and a foetus. She argues: "... reclaiming the moral ground in the debate will ...
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Selling the air: the trade in 'pollution rights'
"solutions" to environmental problems have been canvassed in Australia by governments and by some ... the RECLAIM program (Regional Clean Air Incentives Market), which now gives out permits to polluters ...
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Racial Hatred Bill
Australia's policy towards the East Timorese and Bougainvilleans (very life threatening) being seen by the ... many feminists in activities such as the Reclaim the Night marches will be important. These provide the ...
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Valley of indecision
dingy peripheral brothels are incidental to the problem of reclaiming the area. Along with offices and ... Australia. How to be cosmopolitan diners-out in a city which lacks even coffee houses, where much social life ...
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DSP congress: globalising resistance to capitalism
the rich imperialist countries of North America, western Europe, Japan and Australia. 5) This social ... constituency exists in Australia. This constituency is primarily young but also includes veterans from the ... which are being implemented in Australia. If the anti-corporate movement remains free of the shackles of ...
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Socialists on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights
* * * Introduction In 1788 Australia was invaded and colonised, but the sovereignty of the original inhabitants of ... hollow words from white Australia. In 1992, the High Court finally laid to rest the white colonial ... terra nullius. But despite a world of promises, in the 16 years since Mabo Indigenous Australia remains ...
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In lieu of a history: a Â鶹´«Ã½ sampler
have doubled the gap between rich and poor in Australia. — "IRC decrees another pay cut", ... bill... tightens further the United States' 30-year-long economic blockade of Cuba. — "Australia ... illegal in every state except South Australia. — "Repeal all abortion laws now!", April 27, 1994 ...
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Native title: Labor's real role
ring. Rob Riley, then executive officer of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia, told Green ... against land rights in Australia. CRA, now Rio Tinto, the largest mining multinational in the world, ... all around Australia. These subsidiaries accounted for a large part of the Australian Mining Industry ...
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Feminism: has it gone far enough?
conferences of the Network of Women Students in Australia. There has also been a growing awareness of class ... doddering conservatives could ever have hoped to. One of Australia's most high-profile feminists, Anne ... seats. In his election victory speech, Keating gave special thanks to "the women of Australia ...