BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — On September 5 some 250 trade unionists, students and campaigners were treated to a radical-sounding speech from Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national secretary Doug Cameron, the most prominent of the ALP's "fair
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BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — In debates on workers' struggles against corporate globalisation, not a lot has been heard from community and trade union leaders from the Third World. However at the Globalisation and Corporate Tyranny seminar here on
Where in the world is ... ?
In recent years it has become increasingly difficult to get lost,
thanks to the use of the global positioning system (GPS).
Covering the entire planet, GPS is based on signals from a network of
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BY RICHARD PITHOUSE
DURBAN, South Africa — Together with the bunnychow (see the glossary for a translation of South Africanisms), the spliff and the palm tree, life in Durban includes AmaZion trance dancing on traffic circles. So it's rather
BY JIM GREEN
The federal Coalition government has taken a number of decisions to reassure big business that measures adopted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will have little or no impact.
Federal minister for industry, science and resources
Mexican environmentalists sentenced
Rodolfo Montiel Flores, the imprisoned leader of a campesino environment group in the western Mexican state of Guerrero, was notified on August 28 that he had been sentenced to six years and eight months' jail
BY SUSAN PRICE
MELBOURNE — Green Left Weekly condemned as censorship a decision by organisers of the World Economic Forum summit to deny accreditation to the newspaper's journalists.
The World Economic Forum knocked back applications from other
Adelaide
S11 an eyewitness account. What really happened & where to
now? Resistance meeting. Sat Sept 16, 2pm. Resistance Centre, (upstairs)
34 Hindley St, city. Ph 8231 6982.
Fighting globalisation. Socialist training camp. Sat
Banks
The major shareholders who control the banks are a law unto themselves. They are completely indifferent to the inconvenience that they have caused depositors by closing many branches, and also to the job insecurity of those who are still
BY GRAHAM WILLIAMS
GEELONG — The strike and picket by maintenance workers at the Godfrey Hirst carpet factory in South Geelong, which began on August 18, is continuing. The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union and Electrical Trades Union (ETU)
BY RON BAKER
If the Australian economy is in such good shape, why is it that poverty and disadvantage continue to grow at an alarming rate? The usual suspects are benefiting greatly, surpassing even their own levels of greed, while a large section
BY SEAN HEALY
MELBOURNE — "The most important thing I can tell people in Australia is that this fight against the World Economic Forum is not just of concern to people in this country; it concerns people everywhere, all over the world", said
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