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Join the resistance to corporate globalisation!

BY KERRYN WILLIAMS For decades peasants, workers, urban poor and indigenous people in all the continents of the global South have fought mining companies, the International Monetary Fund, sweatshop operators and other forms of imperialist

Labor Council backs May 1 'Unity Rally'

BY SAM FROST & KATHY NEWNAM ADELAIDE — The United Trades and Labor Council here has decided to back a "Unity Rally Against Corporate Tyranny", which will conclude the Adelaide M1 Alliance's blockade of this city's stock exchange. The UTLC's

HAWAII: No aloha for Asian Development Bank

BY NORM DIXON The Pacific tourist Mecca of Honolulu is to be the next focus of demonstrations against the international capitalist financial institutions — in this case the Asian Development Bank. The ADB's board of governors is to meet at the

CHINA: Bush waves big stick

BY EVA CHENG It's not hard to understand why the unauthorised landing of a US spy plane on China's southern Hainan island on April 1 sparked an international diplomatic crisis. Just turn the tables. Imagine what Washington would have done if a

WA bus drivers launch fight back

BY ANTHONY BENBOW PERTH — Metropolitan bus drivers here are fighting back against years of low pay and worsening conditions. At an April 18 stop-work meeting, drivers from three bus companies — Perth Bus, Path Transit and Southern Coast Transit

UNITED STATES: One race category isn't enough

BY MALIK MIAH In mid-March the United States Census Bureau released its official count for the US population. There are 281,421,906 people, as compared to 253,979,140 in 1990. Reflecting a historic trend, non-Hispanic whites declined from 75% to

Body image and women's oppression

BY MARIA VOUKELATOS& LAUREN CARROLL HARRIS "What if she doesn't worry about her body and eats enough for all the growing she has to do? She might rip her stockings and slam dance on a forged ID to the Pogues, and walk home barefoot, holding her

and ain't i a woman?: M1 and feminism

The emergence of anti-capitalist sentiment in the First World, following the protests against the World Trade Organisation meeting in Seattle in 1999, represents a significant crack in the politics of quiescence. It follows years of opposition

Write on: Letters to the editor

Universal income John Tomlinson (GLW #442) calls for a universal citizens' income. The right vehemently opposes this idea, but isn't it being hypocritical? Conservative Paddy McGuinness (Sydney Morning Herald, February 10) rejects the idea that

Mobil plans union-busting tactics

BY JOHN McGILL ADELAIDE — An attempt to sack maintenance workers employed at Mobil's Port Stanvac plant in South Australia was exposed by the Australian on April 12. Mobil is the Australian subsidiary of US-owned oil giant ExxonMobil. According

Deregulation threatens airline safety

BY LIAM MITCHELL As the Easter holiday break hit, Ansett Airlines was warned by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) that its license to operate could be cancelled due to continuing safety problems through missed maintenance schedules.

Their parliament versus ours

BY ALISON DELLIT On May 1, tens of thousands of people will take to streets across Australia to protest against the sacrifice of human needs to rapacious corporate greed. The M1 stock exchange blockades will be the latest skirmishes in the battle