GLW issue 447, published 2001-05-09.

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Global revolt hits Canberra

BY JAMES CAULFIELD & STUART MUNCKTON CANBERRA — They say that this city is the place where anything can happen and usually doesn't. But, for once, on May 1, it did happen: the global anti-capitalist revolt hit Canberra. Three hundred people

SCOTLAND: Socialist unity advances

BY JOHN PERCY On May 1, the Socialist Workers Party in Scotland joined the Scottish Socialist Party, an historic development creating a united socialist party in Scotland for the first time in generations. Tommy Sheridan, convener of the SSP, and

Audacity inspires Hobart to protest

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

Can private schooling save Aborigines?

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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