BY PETER GELLERT
MEXICO CITY — The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) is marching on Mexico City to publicise the plight of Mexico's indigenous peoples and to press its demand for adoption of the San Andres peace accords to put an end to
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BY ANDY GIANNIOTIS
SYDNEY — Paint company Mirotone has extended the lockout of its Queensland and NSW work force for another fortnight in an increasingly bitter campaign to break the 35-hour week and force workers out of the union and onto
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Various left forces and progressive activists in India are planning to launch a National Campaign Against Globalisation in New Delhi on March 21-23.
An appeal for attendance at a conference, to be held over the three days to coincide the launch,
BY EVA CHENG
The world's automobile industry is headed for big trouble again. Having triggered each of the eight recessions in the United States since the second world war, the US auto industry is plagued once again by a crisis of
BY NORM DIXON
"I want someone to explain to me why it isn't called murder", said Stephen Lewis, former deputy director of the United Nations Children's Fund, in an article in the January 26 Toronto Globe and Mail. Lewis was commenting on the fact
The media coverage of Pauline Hanson has certainly built the following of One Nation. The media focus on Hanson during the lead up to elections in Western Australia and Queensland was astonishing.
Following WA election night, the journalism in the
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — In what will be the broadest left conference held in this city for many years, activists from the growing anti-corporate movement and a wide range of local campaigns will gather at the University of Technology's Markets
BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — Two hundred and fifty people packed Trades Hall on March 8 to discuss the struggle of the Latrobe Valley power workers against attempts by Yallourn Energy and other privatised electricity corporations to slash jobs,
BY TRISHA REIMERS
Big Kev is excited — and he should be, because he's discovered that, just like sex, nationalism sells (in his case, sells cleaning products).
Big Kev is just another Aussie capitalist who's telling workers that they should
The financial markets comprise many interlocking markets in different financial instruments. These are the basic ones:
Shares: A share is a tradeable certificate of part-ownership of a company listed on a stock exchange. A shareholder owns a part
Napster
The new buzz word of the internet is P2P. This stands for peer-to-peer,
and refers to the swapping of information between two people connected
to the internet via their personal computers.
P2P follows B2C (business to
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