BY RACHEL EVANS
MELBOURNE — More than 600 people braved a wet, cold day to attend a solidarity action here with the Prague demonstrations against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The action was called by the S11 Alliance and was
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BY JANE ARMANASCO
PERTH — Left-wing activists have performed well in elections to the Curtin University student guild here, but have been unable to oust conservative and apolitical incumbents, who retained 12 out of 16 positions on guild
Nothing can highlight more the failure of the Indonesian government to rein in the pro-Jakarta militias operating in West Timor than the sham weapons handover that began on September 22. The first three-day "persuasive" phase of the handover has been
BY MARG PERROTT
WOLLONGONG — Workers and their supporters maintaining a 6-month picket outside Joy Mining Machinery Manufacturing at Moss Vale had hoped for a breakthrough this week. It appeared that there were only a small number of points yet
For whom?
"Making money is always a less harmful activity than mass politics". Padraic P McGuinness in the Sydney Morning Herald, September 28.
Morale boost
"Violent clashes with S11 protesters at the recent World Economic Forum had been a
Hundreds of protesters were arrested during the S26 protests; many remain
in appalling conditions in Czech jails. They need your help.
Write to the authorities in Prague to demand the immediate release of
the arrestees and the release to
UNITED STATES: Too much corporate power?
SAN FRANCISCO Working people workers, small farmers and those
called "middle-income families" know in their guts corporations have
too much power. The September 11 Business Week confirmed it.
BY SIMON BUTLER
The New Zealand government has announced that an amnesty will be granted to up to 8000 immigrants living in the country without a visa. The Australian government has responded by attacking the decision, claiming that it amounts to
BY BEA BREAR
HOBART — Just 13% of University of Tasmania (Hobart campus) students voted in the recent student union elections. Those that did overwhelmingly favoured tickets which promised an end to Student Representative Council involvement in
PRAGUE — Green Left Weekly's SARAH PEART spoke to protesters at the rally on September 26 about why they were there and what they hoped to achieve.
Raul, 24, from Slovakia: I am here to protest against the exploitation of the Third World and
A report, released to coincide with the S26 protests against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Prague, has revealed the global scale of resistance to the two institutions.
The World Development Movement's States of Unrest:
PRAGUE — This city was deliberately chosen as the venue for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to showcase what IMF managing director Horst Kohler triumphantly called "the new Prague", the jewel of a capitalist
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