September 2003
Socialist Alliance broadsheet no. 5
JOHN HOWARD recently declared that he would spend “whatever it takes” to bar so-called boat people. What an indictment of a racist government.
THE HOWARD government is currently engaged in secret negotiations to secure a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States that threatens our public services, the environment and jobs.
ON AUGUST 8, the Queensland Council of Unions held a rally to demand Aboriginal workers be paid decades of stolen wages. The ACTU has also announced that it will build a broad campaign so all unions “understand the seriousness of the issue”. This welcome solidarity is long overdue.
AS THE Iraqi people’s determined resistance to the occupation of their country escalates, as the death toll of soldiers and civilians rises, and as the “Coalition of the Killing” – the US, British and Australian governments – is exposed for having lied to justify the war, public opposition to the occupation of Iraq is growing in Australia and around the world.
A MAJOR battle is brewing between the building unions and the federal government which has important consequences for all unions and workers in Australia.
THE CORPORATE media and foreign policy elite have deceitfully sold the lie that the Australian military’s Operation Helpem Fren is a “humanitarian intervention” for the Solomons people.