BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — The coalition which organised the May 1 blockade of the stock exchange has changed its name and its focus.
Twenty members of the group, meeting on July 26, decided it was to time to change its name from M1 Sydney to
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BY ALISON DELLIT
Since April, the north of England has been racked by street violence as Asian youths confront racist gangs in a desperate attempt to defend the safety of their communities. The riots have centered on the north-western towns of
BY DAVE MURPHY
DARWIN — Developers are seeking to move in on prime land which has for 30 years been the home of "long-grassers", a Top End term for those, mainly Aborigines, who live in the bush around Darwin.
Railway Dam camp is one of several
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
GENOA — "Capitalism cannot be made to be more human, it must be overthrown", Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire leader and Euro MP Alain Krivine told a rally of 2000 which preceded the mass mobilisation of 300,000 on July
No bank closures!
CANBERRA — Socialist Alliance activists held a speakout outside the Bunda Street branch of the Commonwealth Bank on July 27 to protest its closure.
The action was the culmination of weekly Socialist Alliance campaign stalls
Dismal science
"My theory is that the nakedness of a woman is related to the performance of an economy. When an economy becomes more developed, women seem to wear less." — unnamed economist quoted in Beijing Evening News.
They're only
BY IAN JAMIESON
PERTH — Well used to causing controversy in the union movement, militant seafarer Chris Cain is unfazed by criticism of his recent decision to join the Socialist Alliance.
"I've been looking around for somewhere to help
@box text intr = February 18: The London Socialist Alliance picketed the House of Commons in protest against the sanctions imposed on Iraq.
March 29: Socialist Alliance members joined members of the Chinese community to rally against Blair's
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
The Quarrel of the Age: The Life and Times of William HazlittBy A. C. GraylingWeidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000399 pages, $69.95 (hb)
"Feculent garbage of blasphemy and scurrility", "loathsome trash", "disfiguring the records of
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
GENOA — The repression unleashed on those who protested against the G8 summit here was the fiercest at any such protest to date: one person, Carlo Giuliani, was murdered iin Genoa, another was killed in unknown
BY SEAN HEALY
What is clear after the Genoa G8 summit is that the world's rulers have made a conscious policy decision: it is time to violently repress the anti-globalisation movement.
Many of the individual elements of the state terror employed
Due to a sub-editing error, the article "Socialist Alliance plans campaigns" (GLW #457) stated that mass leafleting of Workers Compensation information occurred on July 18. This took place on July 25. Socialist Alliance members decided on July 19 to
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