The big corporate powers and their governments want the ministerial summit of the World Trade Organisation, planned for Qatar in November, to undo what was won at Seattle by thousands of people in the street and by the delegations of
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SYDNEY — Seven radical left organisations — the Democratic Socialist Party, the International Socialist Organisation, the Freedom Socialist Party, the Workers League, the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq (Australian branch),
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The Democratic Socialist Party's appeal for a socialist electoral alliance to stand common candidates in the next federal elections has met with an enthusiastic response from the activist left. So far the International
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The Democratic Socialist Party has written to other left parties and prominent left activists to initiate discussions around fielding common "Socialist Alliance" candidates in the coming federal elections. The DSP is seeking
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Activists in every capital city in Australia have begun organising around calls for a worker-student strike and blockade of the stock exchanges on May 1. The M1 coalitions have brought together veterans of the S11 blockade
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In the midst of the concerted public relations exercise, focused around the Sydney Olympics, to present Australia as a multicultural and non-racist society, the federal minister for Aboriginal affairs John Herron denied the existence
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Hundreds of commemorations of the first anniversary of the Seattle protests against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are being organised for around November 30. In Seattle, the street protests outside, and the activities of
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The new movement against corporate globalisation has been built around a series of mass civil disobedience actions dogging the gatherings of some of the main institutions of global capitalism. As a result, these institutions are now
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As more and more of the S11 activist groups around the country decide to make May 1 their next major mobilisation, the discussion now shifts to what kind of action should be organised for the day. The idea of a global strike against
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As a contribution to a big picture still being put together in countless publications, videos and photo essays, S11 Spring has its place. However, there is little analysis of what made S11 a success.
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If anything captured the desperation of the ruling class during the S11 blockade, it was the screaming headlines about "violent protests" accompanied by graphic photographs and TV images of police, with name tags removed, beating up
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An important aspect of the September 11-13 protests (S11) against the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Melbourne — which made them politically more advanced than the earlier Seattle and Washington protests — was the relative