BY JOHN PERCY
The magnificent M1 protests and blockades of stock exchanges in eight cities around Australia had an impact even beyond the specific demands of the 20,000 activists who took to the streets.
The greed of the corporations and the role
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BY NORM DIXON
For weeks before May 1, British Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, London's mayor Ken Livingstone, the Metropolitan Police and the Britain's capitalist mass media relentlessly demonised and criminalised people intending to peacefully
"I think M1 is a big step forward in saying that the problems that we see in society are not just isolated ones but are all linked together and the heart of the problem is the corporate system, capitalism, and that is what we are fighting against
BY SEAN HEALY
The socialist island nation of Cuba received praise from an unlikely source on May Day — from James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, one of the chief enforcers of corporate globalisation.
Wolfensohn told a news conference
BY HARCHAND SINGH
SingaporeÂ’s People's Action Party government likes to boast that
it is tough but “clean”. However, this is a myth. Singapore's corporate
life has long being corrupt but few people dare speak out. If you do speak
out about
"M1 was brilliant. It will go down one of the most significant mobilisation in Australia's history. But one of the things that we can be a bit unhappy about is that the official trade union movement has brought relatively little to it, except in
BY TANIA JORQUERA
MELBOURNE — Victoria University of Technology will play host to the
inaugural meeting of a newly formed refugee rights campaign. Refugee Action
Collective (West) will be based in Melbourne's western suburbs to meet
the
BY KIM BULLIMORE
Well-known Aboriginal scholar and academic Marcia Langton made the headlines when she told the Australian Education Assembly that she was paying "protection money" by sending her daughter to a private school to ensure she escaped
"City workers and commuters were beseiged today as hundreds of anti-globalisation protesters attempted to blockade the Australian Stock Exchange, and took to the streets to march against what they claim to be 'corporate tyranny'.
"The so-called
“When I was a teenager, I got a gun. My parents didn't have them lying
around the house. I bought it for $25 on the street. I had it in my pants
at a movie theater when I saw one of my regular tormentors... [He] wasn't
in the mood to confront
BY MAX LANE
At least 50,000 workers, mostly members of the Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggles (FNPBI), joined protests in 19 cities in Sulawesi, Bali, Java and Sumatra. The largest mobilisations were in Medan and the East Java town of
BY FAROOQ TARIQ& RIZWAN ATTA
LAHORE — "If workers want to remember the martyrs of the 1886 uprising of Chicago, they should hold the meetings indoors", stated retired general Moeen Haider, federal interior minister, on April 28. "No-one,
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