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Equal marriage rights: We will win!

US President Barack Obama's recent comment that he personally supported same-sex marriage rights fed the confidence of the approximately 1200 Equal Marriage Rights marchers in Sydney on May 12. Even conservative NZ PM John Key has said the same, making Australia's Labor PM Julia Gillard, who says she doesn't support same-sex marriage rights, look very backward indeed. The marchers sat down in Oxford Street while the Rev Karl Hand conducted an illegal same-sex marriage ceremony. The Australian Parliament will be voting on equal marriage rights bills soon.

May 12, 2012

Photos: 84

Fight against job cuts at Sydney University

In the biggest joint staff-student political campaign seen in decades in an Australian campus, a partial victory has been won against an attempt by Sydney University administration to cut hundreds of teaching and non-teaching jobs. The immediate job cuts have been reduced to 23 under pressure of the campaign but the staff and students are keeping up the fight. These are photos of a rally and march held today even after the admin called in the police and riot squad. Later, a smaller group of students blockaded a meeting of the University Senate, which subsequently failed to get a quorum.

May 7, 2012

Photos: 53

Sydney 2012 May Day march

The May Day march in Sydney this year was smaller than in 2011, reflecting the lack of an organised labour movement mass fightback against the ongoing attacks on jobs, working conditions, social services and the environment. But two themes of international solidarity stood out: solidarity with the Greek working class facing full-scale assault from the global bankers and solidarity with the Bahraini people's democratic struggle. The "We Are ALL Greeks" banner and t-shirts stood out.

May 6, 2012

Photos: 65

Country & city unite to protect land and water from CSG mining

People from country and city united in a 5000-strong march on NSW Parliament on May 1 to protest the threat of Coal Seam Gas mining companies to precious farming land and our water supplies. A red-baiting attack by NSW Resources & Energy minister Chris Hartcher to frighten off rural support by ridiculously claiming that the rally was being "run by the Socialist Alliance" (which is just one group building this broad alliance) fell flat.

May 1, 2012

Photos: 114

Bersih 3.0 Sydney

About 500 people took part in the Sydney part of the Global Bersih 3.0 actions held in 85 cities outside Malaysia to coincide with a 250,000-300,000-strong plus mass mobilisation for free and fair elections in several cities in Malaysia on April 28. Riot police attacked the Bersih protesters in Kuala Lumpure using water cannon and teargas. There were scores of arrests and some demonstrators were badly beaten up by police. Global Bersih 3.0 actions also drew 1,250 in Melbourne, 400 in Perth, and smaller numbers in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra and Hobart.

Apr 28, 2012

Photos: 45

What do we want? Justice!

Hundreds of angry protesters blocked off half the road in front of the NSW Parliament in a protest against the police shooting and bashing of two unarmed Aboriginal teenagers on April 22. The rally, initiated by the Indigenous Social Justice Association, demanded an independent public investigation into the incident, which had been filmed on mobile phones by shocked bystanders. Many young Aboriginal people and other high schools students braved rain to join the protest. Popular Aboriginal boxer Anthony Mundine joined the protest.

Apr 24, 2012

Photos: 34

Malalai Joya in Sydney 2012

Outspoken and inspiring Afghan anti-war activist, feminist and former MP, Malalai Joya, featured in a "Q & A" session chaired by human rights activist Kellie Tranter and organised by the Sydney Stop The War Coalition. She also had a meeting with Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon and other Greens party members. She made a powerful case against the decade-long military occupation by US and allied militaries, including that of Australia.

Apr 11, 2012

Photos: 31

Sydney part of Global March to Jerusalem - Free Palestine!

Sydney part of the Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ) will take place on the historic Palestine Land Day 2012. This marks the events of March, 1976, after the Israeli authorities confiscated thousands of dunums of private and public land in majority Palestinian areas.

Mar 30, 2012

Photos: 36

Save Gosford Public School

The O'Farrell Liberal-National government plans to relocate Gosford Public School (as did the former Labor government) and sell off the site, next to waterfront views and on prime real estate, to serve a commercial development. This is despite a 10,000-strong petition against the plan, collected by the Gosford community. Parents, teachers, students and supporters held a protest outside NSW Parliament on March 29 while the petition was being read inside. Education not real estate speculation!

Mar 29, 2012

Photos: 33

Stop CSG protest at NSW Parliament

Demonstrators descended on NSW Parliament today after a Greens and Labor sponsored motion for a moratorium on all CSG exploration licences was voted down by the Liberal-Nationals with the support of small right-wing parties (16 to 19) in the Legislative Council today. Later Balmain Greens MP Jamie Parker presented a Stop CSG petition, with 20,000 signatures, to the Legislative Assembly but was stopped from speaking on the matter. The Speaker ordered the public gallery cleared as it erupted into cries of "Shame! shame!".

Mar 15, 2012

Photos: 20

International Womens Day march - Sydney 2012

The 2012 International Women's Day march in Sydney, Australia, was held on Saturday March 10. It went from Town Hall square to First Fleet Park on Circular Quay (for a IWD picnic). The rights or working women was a central theme and the Australian Services Union's court victory for equal pay for community sector workers was celebrated. Migrant workers rights were highlighted by the Asian Women At Work contingent.

Mar 10, 2012

Photos: 58

Remember T J Hickey - Stop Black deaths in custody

March in Redfern NSW on February 14, 2012 to commemorate the killing of T J Hickey during a police pursuit eight years ago and to protest all Aboriginal deaths in custody. There have been more than 400 Aboriginal deaths in custody since 1980, one death in custody per month or more than 13 deaths per year. Less than a third of the 339 recommendations handed down in 1991 by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody have been implemented.

Feb 14, 2012

Photos: 110

40th anniversary of Aboriginal Tent Embassy (Part 1)

The real story of the powerful march celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was ignored by the mainstream media in favour of misleading and charged accounts of a confrontation of Australia's racist opposition leader Tony Abbott and PM Julia Gillard by protesters later in the day. Abbott had provoked the incident by dismissing the historic Tent Embassy as irrelevant and adding that it should be closed down. About 1500 people joined the march on Parliament House and kicked off a 3-day gathering at the Tent Embassy, which swelled into a colourful and well-organised tent village. More photos in Part 2 to come.

Jan 26, 2012

Photos: 72

40th Anniversary of Aboriginal Tent Embassy (Part 2)

Jan 26, 2012

Photos: 53

Socialist Alliance 8th national conference

Following 12 months of tumultuous events around the world, lively discussions took place at this conference of the Socialist Alliance held in Sydney January 20-22, 2012.

Jan 20, 2012

Photos: 83

Cleaners united will never be defeated

"The cleaners united will never be defeated," chanted cleaners and their supporters at a lively rally outside Westfield Sydney Shopping centre on December 8. Across Australia, cleaners and their union, United Voice, are standing together for respect, a living wage - and cleaner shopping centres for our community. You can show your support through this website: http://www.cleanstart.org.au/supporters

Dec 8, 2011

Photos: 72

Occupy Sydney occupies the court

A group of 14 Occupy activists faced charges at Downing St District Court in Sydney on December 5 arising out police eviction of the Occupy Sydney camp in Martin Place on October 23 and related police assessment. The cases were stood over so that celebrity human rights lawyer Stuart Littlemore can take some of these cases to the High Court in the new year. Occupy activist Tim Davis-Frank quipped "It looks like we'll be occupying the court system for a while!" A solidarity demonstration outside the court involved a few rogue Occupy tents on legs, who were refused admission into court. To date, there have been 59 arrests arising from police attempts to shut down Occupy Sydney.

Dec 5, 2011

Photos: 42

Refugee rights activists march on ALP national conference

About 1000 refugee rights activists marched on the national conference of the Australian Labor Party in Sydney's Darling Harbour. "Shame, Labor, shame!" they shouted, angry at the ALP conference adopting "offshore" processing of asylum seekers into party policy. They were joined by other activists protesting the ALP decision to support exports uranium to India, which has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Dec 4, 2011

Photos: 81

Equal marriage rights now!

Thousands marched on the Australian Labor Party national conference demanding equal marriage rights. The ALP conference adopted policy supporting equal marriage rights for same-sex couples but also voted to allow ALP members a "conscience vote" on this matter in Parliament. The crowd was not impressed with this and vowed to continue the struggle.

Dec 3, 2011

Photos: 53

Protest at toxic waste dumper Lynas shareholders' AGM

A protest was held outside the annual general meeting of shareholders of the Australian mining company Lynas because it is building a rare earths refinery in Kuantan, Malaysia, which will dump toxic and radioactive waste near a highly populated area. Local residents have been campaigning against the refinery. Greens senator Lee Rhiannon addressed the protest. Three activists attended the AGM and made some sharp points before the shareholders, CEO Nicholas Curtis and directors.

Nov 30, 2011

Photos: 26

Freedom Carols for Palestine

Freedom Carols for Palestine, November 29, 2011 outside Max Brenner Chocolate (Broadway) and Dezire Cosmetics store at Broadway Shopping Centre. Max Brenner Chocolate is targeted by the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israeli Apartheid because of its sponsorship of Israeli military units accused of human rights violations. Dezire sells Ahava products and Ahava is targeted by the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israeli Apartheid because its products are made from stolen Palestinian natural resources. Organised by Coalition For Palestine to mark UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

Nov 29, 2011

Photos: 43

Solidarity with Egyptian Revolution

Short notice rally in solidarity with the continuing Egyptian Revolution.

Nov 26, 2011

Photos: 44

Rubén Pereira explains ALBA's internationalist vision

Rubén Pereira, Coordinator of Social Movements for Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) explained ALBA's internationalist vision at a forum in Sydney organised by the Australian Venezulea Solidarity Network and the Latin America Social Forum. Rubén was on a speaking tour of Australia about the Council of Social Movements' work to strengthen people's power and unity in the struggle against neoliberalism and imperialism, and for social justice, peace, social security and self-determination, in harmony with nature.

Nov 26, 2011

Photos: 31

20,000 signatures for CSG moratorium

Anti-Coal Seam Gas groups from around NSW delivered 20,000 signatures to the NSW Parliament calling for a moratorium on all CSG mining, a Royal Commission into the industry and a ban on "fracking". Premier Barry O'Farrell said he would take notice if 10,000 signed but refused protesters demands he come out and accept the petitions in person.

Nov 22, 2011

Photos: 57

Occupy and unions slam Qantas CEO Alan Joyce

Trade unionists (from the TWU, NTEU and MUA) and Occupy Sydney activists joined in a protest outside Angel Place Recital Hall where the union-bashing CEO of Qantas, Alan Joyce, was speaking in one of the University of NSW’s “Meet the CEO” lecture series. Joyce recently locked out Qantas workers shutting down Australia's national airline. He gave himself a a $2 million salary increase, bringing his salary package to $5 million while refusing workers cost of living adjustments and job security.

Nov 22, 2011

Photos: 23

National Day against Aboriginal Deaths In Custody

Sydney gathering to mark the national day of action against Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was held in Redfern at the spot where 17-year-old TJ Hickey was killed in the mdst of a police pursuit in 2004.

Nov 19, 2011

Photos: 35

Occupy Sydney hits corporate greed

A Corporate Greed Tour, organised by Occupy Sydney, took place in Sydney on November 19. The heavily policed march targeted, among other greedy corporations, the Coles supermarket chain in solidarity with striking Baiada Poultry workers in Victoria.

Nov 19, 2011

Photos: 38

Obama visit protest 2011

Protest organised by Sydney Stop The War Coalition, Peace Bus, Bradley Manning Support Group, Christine Assange and Wikileaks supporters outside while there was a standing ovation for US President Barack Obama inside Parliament. Photos taken by Pip Hinman.

Nov 17, 2011

Photos: 41

Attempted political bans at Newtown Festival

Socialist Alliance stall holders at the popular Newtown Festival were told today that NSW Police had urged them to ban SA and Occupy Sydney from the festival. The SA has paid for and run a stall every year at the festival but police threatened the organisers the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre with a $16,000 bill arguing that our presence might incite trouble. The festival organisers allowed our stall but early on the day the stall was briefly hassled by a squad of armed police and a private security officer who pointed to our "Socialist Alliance supports Occupy" banner and said: "That is the problem".

Nov 12, 2011

Photos: 19

Profile Photos

Album for profile photos

Nov 10, 2011

Photos: 6

Perth Occupy

Oct 30, 2011

Photos: 9

Occupy Sydney supports Qantas workers

Occupy Sydney protesters joined trade unionists in support of Qantas workers' fight for jobs and decent pay rise at the companies Annual General Meeting on October 28, 2011. Qantas CEO Alan Joyce got a 71% pay increase (to $5.1 million) while denying his workers cost of living pay adjustments and destroying 1000 jobs.

Oct 28, 2011

Photos: 27

Occupy Sydney Day 8

Despite a completely over-the-top police presence (including riot police, mounted police, dog squad and, ominously, 9 ambulances standing by) between 700 and 1000 people enjoyed a peaceful day of music, street theatre (well done Cop It Sweet), speeches and decision-making at #OccupySydney Day 8. The occupiers declared their solidarity with #OccupyMelbourne (which was violently asaulted by police the previous day).

Oct 22, 2011

Photos: 97

Occupy Sydney Day 7

Oct 21, 2011

Photos: 11

Day 5 Occupy Sydney

On Day 5 of #OccupySydney the daily decision-making general assembly seems to have developed less cumbersome processes and a more practical focus. However, an informal meeting by some occupiers with Sydney Mayor Clover Moore revealed that police are pressing for the site to be vacated between 9pm and 6am. The GA decided by consensus to reject this and continue the occupation.

Oct 19, 2011

Photos: 12

Occupy Sydney Day 4

When these pictures were taken #OccupySydney had been going on for four days. After 1000+ kicked off the occupation on October 15, a stream of people have kept the camp going despite police not allowing tents or (after three nights) even cooking equipment. Numbers go down to 30-40 during the day but at nights have gone up to 100 (about 200 on first night). Many people are stopping to talk and there is a lot of public sympathy for the message that society should not be run, as it is, by the richest 1%. General assemblies held at 6.30pm each evening make decisions about the occupation. Support is welcome from everybody and political and social diversity is respected.

Oct 18, 2011

Photos: 33

Occupy Sydney

Occupy Sydney set up camp outside the Reserve Bank in Martin Place at 2.30pm on October 15, 2011. About a thousand people turned up to kick it off and a general assembly decided to set up the occupation camp right there. Police moved to disperse the camp at about 10pm but the protesters vowed to be back for a general assembly at 10am the next morning, whatever happened.

Oct 15, 2011

Photos: 93

Rally for refugee rights (15-10-11)

This rally for refugee rights celebrated the collapse the Gillard Labor government's notorious "Malaysia solution" under which 800 asylum seekers would be deported to Malaysia, a country which is not a signatory to the UN convention on refugee rights.

Oct 15, 2011

Photos: 8

Climate Change Social Change 2011 Conference

The Climate Change Social Change 2011 Conference held in Melbourne, Australia, September 30 - October 3, was attended by more than 500 people. The keynote guest speaker was John Bellamy Foster, the editor of Monthly Review and author of several books on Marxism, ecology and economics.

Oct 3, 2011

Photos: 59

Sydney says no to Coal Seam Gas

Pics from the start of a march today against coal seam gas mining from the inner-city suburb of Newtown to St Peters, one of many Sydney suburbs where the NSW government has given mining companies to start drilling for coal seam gas.

Sep 18, 2011

Photos: 47

BDS v Neo-Nazi friends of Israeli apartheid

Israeli apartheid had some ugly friends on hand to scream abuse and insults at the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions protest outside Max Brenner Chocolate. The Max Brenner franchise is a strong supporter of the Israeli military and has ties with one of its most notoriously brutal units, the “elite” Golani Brigade, which has a history of severe human rights abuses against Palestinian people. These friends were from the Australian Protectionist Party, an offshoot from the Australian neo-Nazi group, National Action, now influenced strongly by the British National Party (BNP). Visiting BNP officials have advised APP forums that by jumping on the Zionist bandwagon - and shedding their previous anti-Semitic heritage - they can better set themselves up to ride the racist anti-Muslim immigrant sentiment.

Sep 10, 2011

Photos: 31

Gurindji Memorial Day in Sydney

Protest in Sydney 45th anniversary of the Wave Hill walk-off, when Aboriginal people walked off a cattle station in 1966 and became pioneers of the Aboriginal land rights movement. Just over 100 people demonstrated outside the Sydney electorate office of federal Minister for Social Inclusion Tanya Plibersek in an action, organised by the Stop The Intervention Collective Sydney, calling for an end to the discriminatory Northern Territory intervention. 1000 were at a re-enactment of the walkoff in Wave Hill, the protesters were told by phone from Wave Hill, NT.

Aug 26, 2011

Photos: 31

BDS action for Palestinian freedom

Protest outside Max Brenner Chocolate in Newtown, Sydney. The large Israeli company that owns the Max Brenner Chocolate chain has been targetted by the non-violent global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli Apartheid because it sponsors an Israeli army unit notorious for its repression of Palestinians. This action on August 20, 2011 also protested the arrests of several BDS activists in Melbourne for engaging in peaceful protest. Vivienne Porzsolt, from Jews Against The Occupation, explained why it was ridiculous and a slander to try and brand the BDS movement anti-Semitic which it clearly is not. In fact, she added, the BDS movement was pro-freedom and anti-racist.

Aug 20, 2011

Photos: 28

Enough is enough: Stop coal & gas expansion

Video footage of the unfurling of the giant "Enough Is Enough: Stop Coal & Gas Expansion" banner by two activists who abseiled down the front of the hotel where mining company executives were meeting to plan the wholesale exploitation of Australia even at the cost of communities and the environment. This was the highlight of a protest organised by Lock The Gate, an alliance of urban and rural groups opposing coal seam gas mining.

Aug 18, 2011

Photos: 71

Equal marriage rights march

"Julia Gillard/ALP - We want marriage equality!" chanted the young and vibrant march as it made its way once again from Sydney Town Hall to Taylor Square. Rally organisers predicted a really massive protest at the Australia Labor Party national conference to be held in Sydney in December.

Aug 13, 2011

Photos: 49

Brewarrina mob protests govt mispending on Aboriginal affairs

For the last five days, Feli McHughes, Joel McHughes and Gregory Coffey from the Ngemba Billabong Restoration Project in Brewarrina, NSW, have been trying to hand over a $260,000 cheque to the head of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. "We are not going to play this silly game any more: where they pretend to give us money and we end up giving it back to them to mispend", Feli said, referring to the recently unearthed secret federal government's Johnson report which found that $25 billion of government spending on Aboriginal affairs over the last 40 years had failed to narrow the huge social and economic gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities.

Aug 12, 2011

Photos: 8

Stop the dirty tricks - hands off David Hicks!

Protest against the Gillard Labor government's "proceeds of crime" prosecution of former Guantanamo detainee David Hicks organised Sydney Stop The War Coalition and the Justice Campaign. The Commonwealth DPP wants to seize profits from his book "Guantanamo: My Journey", of which about 30,000 copies have been sold. Thousands more have mysteriously disappeared off the shelves of major stores. Hicks has committed no crime recognised under Australian law and the protestors accused the government of trying to silence the exposure of torture and abuse in Guantanamo.

Aug 3, 2011

Photos: 40

Libs seek to ram through anti-worker laws in NSW

Trade unionists rallied outside NSW parliament as the Liberal O'Farrell government moved to cut discussion on a Labor-Greens motion to disallow anti-worker laws which will force cuts in real pay rates or poorer services in hospitals, schools and other state-run public services.

Aug 2, 2011

Photos: 22

Tamil's demand independent war crimes tribunal

Members of Sydney's Tamil community, and their supporters, took to the streets to demand an independent international war crimes tribunal to investigate the mass atrocities committed by the Sri Lankan armed forces against the Tamil national minority.

Jul 30, 2011

Photos: 23

Tony Blair is a war criminal

Street theatre organised by Sydney Stop The War Coalition outside $1000-$1500 a head speaking engagement in Darling Harbour for former British PM and war criminal Tony Blair. Blair was charged, tried and convicted of manufacturing fraudulent excuses for the invasion of Iraq, the murder of a million Iraqi people, profiting from the proceeds of crime, etc. "Tony Blair you can't hide. We charge you with genocide", the protesters shouted. One person called on the police protecting the meeting to "do their duty and arrest Blair the war criminal" instead.

Jul 29, 2011

Photos: 33

Reject Malaysia deal! Free the refugees!

More than 200 people marched on Villawood Immigration Detention Centre where some of the 6500 plus asylum seekers detained indefinitely without trial are being imprisoned by the Gillard Labor government of Australia. The protesters condemned the government's plans to deport 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia and demanded an end to the mandatory detention of asylum seekers who arrive in Australia by boat. A number of former refugee detainees address the crowd and told of the horrors of life in these camps which have been described by health workers as "factories for mental illness".

Jul 24, 2011

Photos: 47

Sydney support rally for Malaysia's Bersih 2.0 democracy movement

While "thousands and thousands" marched in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia today for democracy (braving police roadblocks, hundreds of arrests, water cannon, teargas, etc) in Australia some 750 Malaysian rallied in Melbourne today, 300 in Sydney, 200 in Perth, 150 in Adelaide, 40 in Canberra and 100 in Brisbane. These are some photos I took of the Sydney rally.

Jul 9, 2011

Photos: 37

Stop Lynas: Australian company plans to dump radioactive waste in Malaysia

12 concerned Malaysians travelled to Australia and held a protest outside the Sydney headquarters of Lynas, an Australian company that plans to set up a rare earth refinery in Kuantan in the Malaysian state of Pahang. The plan is opposed by local residents and environmentalists because of concerns about the highly toxi and radioactive waste it will leave behind.

Jul 5, 2011

Photos: 28

Teachers protest NSW Liberal government's attack on worker's rights

Teachers and their supporters rallied outside the NSW government offices on July 5 to oppose the O'Farrell Liberal NSW government's wage freeze on NSW public sector workers and its attck on workplace rights.

Jul 5, 2011

Photos: 16

Free Dr Kumar! Free the PSM 30!

Emergency protest outside Malaysian Airlines offices in Sydney to demand the release of 30 Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) detained since June 25 and accused of waging "war against the king"... the "evidence" a few political t-shirts in their posession! These arrests are part of a crackdown on oppositionists in the lead up to the July 9 "Bersih 2.0" democracy march in Kuala Lumpur. See also Melbourne solidarity picket: https://picasaweb.google.com/114156072356815587178/PROTESTDropTheChargesFreeTheMalaysianDemocracyActivists02

Jul 1, 2011

Photos: 28

Sydney World Refugee Day 2011 rally & march

In the biggest refugee rights demonstration in Australia in years, more than a thousand people marched through the Sydney CBD on June 19 to mark World Refugee Day and to demand that the Gillard Labor government end mandatory detention of refugees arriving by boat and abandon its plan to deport refugees to Malaysia and other offshore refugee processing centres.

Jun 19, 2011

Photos: 42

Marching for equal pay

Thousands of community sector workers and their supporters from numerous trade unions rallied and marched in several cities around Australia for equal pay for equal work. The court has accepted the Australian Service Union's claim but now governments have to be forced to make the funding available to pay these workers their rightful wages.

Jun 8, 2011

Photos: 74

Socialists in Malaysia

I attended and addressed the 13th congress of Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) June 3-5 and also had a chance to see some of the grassroots work the PSM does - from fighting for housing rights, helping women from poor communities establish tailoring coops to helping a resident group establish a community-managed forest! The PSM is also working with Australian activists to fight the dirty deal to "outsource" asylum seekers arriving in Australia to Malaysia and an attempt by an Australian company, Lynas, to dump radioactive waste in Malaysia.

Jun 7, 2011

Photos: 43

Equal marriage rights march 21-05-11

Once again to the streets for equal marriage rights - a loud, proud and largely young crowd of marchers took off from Town Hall Square to Taylor Square, down Oxford Out-of-the-bars-into-the-street...

May 22, 2011

Photos: 54

Climate Change Social Change conference 2011

Some of the speakers at World At A Crossroads: Climate Change Social Change Conference II, September 30-October 3, 2011, Melbourne University.

May 18, 2011

Photos: 74

Defend public housing!

A protest organised by a local residents’ action "Hands off Glebe" to stop the demolition of public housing in Cowper St. The 15 buildings on the Cowper St site have the capacity to house 289 people but the former NSW Labor government decided to sell most of the land to private developers, with the remnant being earmarked for new public and so called affordable housing. The newly-elected Greens MP for Balmain, Jamie Parker, joined and addressed the protest. Workers on the site stopped work for the day in support.

May 18, 2011

Photos: 16

2011 Resistance Conference

May 10, 2011

Photos: 15

Local residents: Don't frack with nature

A group of local residents express their opposition to exploration drilling for coal seam gas in the inner-Sydney suburb of St Peters.

May 2, 2011

Photos: 2

Sydney May Day 2011

An internationalist spirit was the feature of this year's May Day march with contingents championing democracy struggles all around the world.

May 1, 2011

Photos: 59

Refugee activists march on Villawood Detention Centre

About 300 people marched on Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney's west on April 25 to demand an end to mandatory detention of refugees. Demonstrations were also held outside the Curtin Detention Centre in WA and the Maribyrnong Detention Centre in Victoria

Apr 25, 2011

Photos: 47

Mongarlowe

Three days by the Mongarlowe River, NSW.

Apr 24, 2011

Photos: 34

Defending Marrickville Council's BDS stand

An over-capacity crowd rolled up to the Marrickville Council meeting today as it met under heavy pressure (including threats from the new Liberal-National NSW government to dismiss the council, big business media smear campaign, death threats, etc) over its principled stand in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israeli apartheid. A few Palestinians and their supporters, including some Jewish people who support BDS, held up placards outside the meeting.

Apr 19, 2011

Photos: 11

Cuban literacy brigadista Ezequiel Morales

Ezequiel Morales was a young brigadista on the Cuban Literacy Campaign in 1961 that wiped out illiteracy in Cuba. Now director of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples, in Granma province, Ezequiel addressed a meeting at the Sydney Resistance Centre on the current debates in Cuba around the economic reforms, and other aspects and challenges of the Cuban revolution today. Cuban Consul-General Reinaldo Garcia Perera also addressed the meeting which was chaired by teachers union and socialist activist John Gauci.

Apr 18, 2011

Photos: 9

Cut funding for war not medical research!

Between two to three thousand health research workers, students, patients and other supporters rallied in Sydney today against an expected $400 million cut to federal funding in the May 2011 budget. Meanwhile Australia's military spending is $32 billion a year, a little over $70 million each and every day! There were similar rallies in other cities around the country.

Apr 12, 2011

Photos: 79

Against Gaddafi & against NATO intervention in Libya

Apr 3, 2011

Photos: 34

Climate denialists outmobilised x4!

Some 8000 people demonstrated for urgent action in Sydney's Belmore Park on April 2 in a powerful counter-mobilisation to a 2000-strong climate deniers rally led by right-wing radio shock jocks Alan Jones and Chris Smith from Radio 2GB held in Hyde Park. The deniers rally is a repeat of a similar-sized rally held in Canberra a week ago and is part of an attempt to construct a right-populist movement like the "Tea Party" movement in the US. The climate change activists rally was organised by the internet-based group GetUp!.

Apr 2, 2011

Photos: 30

Polling day: NSW election March 26, 2011

Mar 27, 2011

Photos: 20

International Womens Day forum - LASF

Mar 13, 2011

Photos: 24

100th International Womens Day

This are some stills from video footage shot by Jill Hickson from Art Resistance at the International Womens Day march attended by several thousand on March 12.

Mar 12, 2011

Photos: 13

2011 NSW election campaign launch

Feb 28, 2011

Photos: 56

Remember T J Hickey - Stop deaths in custody

The family and supporters of T J Hickey, and Aboriginal youth killed in Redfern in the course of a police pursuit (another death in custody that was whitewashed), thought they were going to have a small win and be allowed to have a plaque commemorating his death at the spot where he was killed. But the police are objecting to words describing his death which were taken straight from the death certicate. The truth, once again, is forbidden! This was a rally and march (on February 14, 2011) in Redfern to mark seven years since this killing.

Feb 14, 2011

Photos: 86

Sydney celebration of Egyptian Revolution's victory against dictatorship

What was scheduled to be another rally (on February 12) in support of the Egyptian people's revolution against the hated Mubarak dictatorship turned into a spontaneous celebration after the hated dictator was toppled overnight. As one sign declared: "Congratulations Egypt - never underestimate people power".

Feb 12, 2011

Photos: 53

Socialist Alliance forum on the Egyptian & Tunisian revolutions

This forum was addressed by Omar Moustafa, an Egyptian activist, Rupen Savoulian and Gegeufe Hailu (the last two from Socialist Alliance). Kate Ausburn from Resistance introduced and chaired the forum.

Feb 12, 2011

Photos: 15

Defend democracy defend WikiLeaks!

On the eve of Julian Assange's latest court hearing on Swedish extradition charges, about 300 people marched through Sydney CBD.

Feb 6, 2011

Photos: 27

"Free Egypt! Mubarak must go NOW!"

This was the 6th rally in solidarity with the Egyptian Revolution to be held in Sydney in just over a week.

Feb 5, 2011

Photos: 47

NSW not for sale!

A February 5 protest against the NSW government's sale of electricity retailers and trading rights for generators that will have severe impacts on household bills, the energy workforce and the environment. The $5.3bn sale is a disastrous deal for the people of NSW. Speakers included: Charmaine Crowe, Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association (MC), David Shoebridge Greens NSW MP, Pepe Clarke, Nature Conservation Council, Sally McManus, Australian Services Union, Jess Moore, Socialist Alliance and John Kaye Greens NSW MP.

Feb 5, 2011

Photos: 10

Sydney solidarity with the people of Egypt

Members of the Egyptian community in Sydney and their supporters held a rally in Hyde Park North on January 30. Join the next protest: Monday January 31, 4:30pm, Egyptian consulate, 241 Commonwealth St, Surry Hills.

Jan 30, 2011

Photos: 66

Socialist Alliance NSW policy conference

This policy conference adopted the election platform for the March 2011 NSW election campaign.

Jan 29, 2011

Photos: 6

Residents say no to coal seam gas mining in Sydney suburbs

About 400 people, mostly local residents, rallied on December 19 at Sydney Park in inner-Sydney St Peters to protest plans by the NSW government to allow exploratory drilling for coal seam mining gas in this suburb. It's another case of Labor & Liberal parties putting corporate profit before community needs. As Tim Duddy, from the Liverpool Plains campaign, told the rally, we need to build a broad community alliance to defeat these powerful but narrow and destructive interest groups.

Dec 19, 2010

Photos: 33

Back onto the streets for WikiLeaks

Dec 14, 2010

Photos: 54

Police arrest Visy workers

Police arrested about 30 picketting workers at the Visy cardboard factory in Dandenong in Melbourne's South-East so scabs and trucks could be bussed in. One worker was hit by a truck and another taken to hospital with heatstroke. The strike is primarily in defence of working conditions: te company wants to bring in casuals at lower pay rates and get rid of rights won in the previous industrial agreement.

Dec 13, 2010

Photos: 33

Defend Wikileaks protest (Melbourne)

About 1500 people took part in a rally and march around the CBD in defence of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. The protesters carried out a sit-down in Latrobe Street. Next Defend WikiLeaks rally in Melbourne Tuesday December 14, 5.30pm, State Library.

Dec 10, 2010

Photos: 75

Newtown festival 2010

Thousands flocked to the newtown Festival in the Camperdown Memorial Park, Newtown. Socialist Alliance had a stall there.

Nov 14, 2010

Photos: 12

NSW nurses campaign for 1:4 ratio in the wards

Two appreciative patients spoke in support of the nurses' union campaign for a 1:4 nurse-patient ratio in NSW public hospitals (Victorian hospitals have had this ratio for the last 10 years) at a lunchtime rally at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney on November 10. One of these patients was a nice fellow in a wheelchair, named James Data, and the other was me!

Nov 10, 2010

Photos: 19

Shoe away the war criminals!

Sydney Stop The War Coalition organised "Shoe Away The War Criminals" lunchtime protest outside the US Consulate in Martin Place Sydney as US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and US Secretary for Defense (War, actually) met with PM Julia Gillard & Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd in Melbourne to discuss ongoing military collaboration between the two governments. In the days leading up to the protest police initially threatened to arrest any shoe throwers but backed off on the day.

Nov 8, 2010

Photos: 38

Construction workers march for fair go in Barangaroo

Construction workers marched through Sydney CBD for a decent site allowance and conditions in the $6 billion-dollar Barangaroo development on Sydney's former wharves (the legendary "Hungry Mile"). CFMEU State Secretary Mal Tulloch says the development could play a critical role in turning around a race to the bottom in the NSW building industry in terms of safety standards and decent working conditions but the federal Labor government's "Fair Work Act" (WorkChoices Lite) may stand in the way!

Nov 3, 2010

Photos: 39

Socialist Alliance placards

Oct 28, 2010

Photos: 38

Refugees yes racism no

Rally and march for refugee and asylum seeker rights held in Sydney on October 23 to mark the ninth anniversary of the sinking of a boat, code-named the SIEV X, full of asylum seekers on its way from Indonesia to Australia on October 19, 2001. The boat was under Australian surveillance but was allowed to sink in international waters killing 353 people.

Oct 23, 2010

Photos: 46

NSW firefighters' union celebrates centenary

The NSW Fire Brigades Employees Union has a 100-year record as a militant union whose members have provides an essential community service with distinction. The Firies have been in the forefront of many struggles, surviving even a brief deregistration in 1960. In 2001, it disaffiliated from the Australian Labor Party after Carr NSW Labor government refused adequate Death and Disability benefits for members and slashed benefits available under Workers Compensation.

Oct 21, 2010

Photos: 29

Latin America Solidarity Conference (Sydney 2010)

Some pics from the first day of the Latin America Solidarity Conference in Sydney October 16-17. There were 120 registrations and some very interesting presentations, including (pictured) a panel on Indigenous rights struggles in LA.

Oct 17, 2010

Photos: 21

Thai Red Australia dinner

More than 200 attended the Thai Red Australia dinner on Cabrammatta. A special guest as Conor Purcell, the Australian who spoke out for democracy in Bangkok and was jailed, beaten and deported by Thai regime.

Oct 10, 2010

Photos: 23

Abortion right to choose

Sydney rally for abortion rights. Photos by Pip Hinman.

Oct 9, 2010

Photos: 6

Troops out of Afghanistan

Rally to mark the 9th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan organised by Sydney Stop The War Coalition.

Oct 8, 2010

Photos: 24

Pirates protest Forbes 500 conference

A group of "anti-corporate pirates" protested outside the Forbes global CEO's conference at the luxury Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney today. Corporate pirates were plundering and destroying the earth and exploiting the world's majority, said grassroots Pirate Paul Benedek. "What do we do with the corporate thieves, what do we do with the corporate thieves, early in the morning? Put them to work for a $1 a day, make 'em walk the plank and feed the fishes, swim in their pollution or lock 'em up on Christmas Island..." sang the pirates in the face of an over-the-top police presence to protect the corporate pirates. ABC Radio National's PM program recorded US billionaire investor Ken Fisher at the Forbe's CEO conference: "I believe in capitalism. Capitalism to me is a spiritual concept. Democracy just gets in the way. Democracy is annoying. Let them buy stuff and eat cake. Where I come from if you don't believe in capitalism you're going to hell."

Sep 29, 2010

Photos: 53

Sydney GLW Sustainability Feast

Fundraising dinner for Green Left Weekly, Addison Rd Community Centre, Marrickville.

Sep 11, 2010

Photos: 7

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