Indigenous elders from six Andean communities that grow nuna beans met in late February for a traditional Quechua "tribunal" to deliberate on US patent no. 6,040,503 on the "bean-nut popping bean" awarded to US food processor Appropriate Engineering
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More than 900 people took part in a march in Edinburgh on May 5 to mark the 75th anniversary of the British general strike. Veteran Labour MP Tony Benn and Scottish Socialist Party MP Tommy Sheridan addressed the protest.
"People complain about the
BY JABULANE MATSEBULA
The Swaziland government launched a vicious attack on the freedom of speech and the press on May 4, when it issued an order to shut down the Guardian of Swaziland and the Nation Magazine.
Police impounded copies of the
100 years of service ... to capitalism
When the likes of Kim Beazley, Paul Keating and Bob Hawke swell with
pride at something, you know it must really stink.
On May 8, Labor leaders, past and present, gathered in Melbourne to
BY NOREEN NAVIN
SYDNEY — Pressure is mounting on Bob Carr's state Labor government to back down on its controversial "Building the Future" plan, which will force the closure of several inner-city high schools.
A rally outside the Department of
BY JAMES CRAFTI & JODY BETZEIN
MELBOURNE — Around 250 people participated in the "regular" Friday evening Nike superstore blockade on Swanston Street on May 11. The Nike superstore was successfully shut-down by protesters for the eighth week in a
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — It rained hard on May 6, the day scheduled for the traditional May Day rally and march. But, determined not to let the weather deter them, hundreds of activists nevertheless turned up to the assembly point in Hyde Park
The federal government has already made formal liberalisation proposals
in the following sectors:
architecture services;
engineering services;
financial services;
construction services;
Municipal elections in France, which took place on March 11 and 18 and are an important litmus test for the mood of the country, have brought a few surprises.
The conservative right has lost the two most important local government positions, the
In the weeks leading up to the M1 protests against corporate tyranny,
the big-business media waged psychological warfare against those who might
be thinking of attending, arguing that the protests were useless, violent,
undemocratic and
BY VIV MILEY
Twenty thousand people marched through Istanbul on May Day in support of left-wing hunger strikers in Turkey's jails. Twenty two prisoners have starved themselves to death since October, in a protest against authorities' decision to
It is not fashionable today to write something good about an ex-convict.
Nevertheless, that is what I am setting out to do in this essay.
I received a letter recently from a correspondent who lives in Wales.
In it, she relates having met a
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