Max Watts, 1928-2010, a well-known personality on the left in Australia, died on November 23. Max was a left-wing freelance journalist, a frequent presenter on 3CR Tuesday Hometime and a contributor to Green Left Weekly. He was a solidarity activist with many national liberation struggles including those of Palestine, Kanaky, West Papua and Bougainville. In [...]
Australian lawyer Rosemarie Gillespie, ‘Waratah’, a courageous woman and long time fighter for Indigenous Rights issues, died today. 22 June, 2010. Her work in human rights spanned more than 40 years and began with protests against the “white Australia” immigration policy. Waratah will be remembered for her valiant activism in the cause of peace. No [...]
Devin Cohee died tragically in Santa Cruz, Calif., on February 28. She was a loving friend, a driven activist and an unyielding revolutionary. Her passing is a mighty loss to the antiwar and socialist movements. Devin was a true revolutionary in the way that she identified all oppressed and exploited peoples’ struggles as her own. [...]
Utah Phillips died last Friday. Bruce Duncan Phillips was the son of labour organisers and had a lifelong concern with the living conditions of working people. He was a proud member of the Industrial Workers of the World, an organisation which has seen renewed interest and growth in membership in the last decade, not in [...]
Peace activist Rachel Corrie, 23, a student at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, died Sunday, March 16, 2003, in the southern Gaza city of Rafah while trying to stop an Israeli bulldozer from tearing down a Palestinian physician’s home. She fell in front of the machine, which ran over her and then backed [...]
