Early last month, family services minister Amanda Vanstone released a discussion paper calling for incentives for Australian women to have more children. The reason? At 1.75 births per woman of child-bearing age, Australia's fertility rate has fallen
447
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Months of hard work by organisers paid off on May 1 when hundreds of people participated in the largest anti-capitalist protest this city has ever seen.
Organisers admit that even on the morning of the blockade, they
BY LUCIEN VAN DER WALT
JOHANNESBURG — The radical magazine, Debate: voices from the South African left, was recently relaunched at the Workers' Library and Museum in Newtown, Johannesburg. The excellent turnout on March 23 demonstrated the
The first May Day of the new century should be remembered for a long time — possibly even as a new turning point in the centuries-long struggle for global justice.
For one day, it seemed like the working people of the world rose as one: workers
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
"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 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
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
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