BY JANET PARKER
What was once a debate between free traders and protectionists has now become posed as a debate between free traders and those championing the notion of "fair trade".
While the notion of fair trade has only come to prominence in
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REVIEW BY BILL NEVINS
Dancing in our DreamsPressGangVoxpop records<http://www.voxpop.demon.co.uk>
Cheerful harmonies, dulcimer, double bass and danceable praise of the egalitarian Chartist faith of the English working class. This is
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — The campaign against the amalgamation of the campuses of the University of Western Sydney has been boosted following a successful half-day strike by 2300 staff on November 1. Staff and students joined forces to picket all
LONDON — Since September 28, a group of 40 refugees, migrants and their supporters have been travelling across England, providing support to black and migrant communities who have suffered from racism and telling people that the campaigns for
BY CAM PARKER
SYDNEY — Federal communications minister Richard Alston has told the ABC to "cut its cloth" to cover the shortfall in government funds for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He said the ABC should drop some of its "esoteric"
Striking workers attacked
Striking workers at plastics manufacturing company PT Mepoly, near Surabaya in East Java, were attacked by hired thugs and police on November 1. The company employs some 600 workers, 50% of whom are women.
Two trucks
The following Palestine solidarity actions were confirmed as of November 5. Further actions may be called in your city. For more information, contact your nearest Resistance Centre (details on page 2).
ADELAIDE — Action planning meeting. Wed Nov
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
SYDNEY — The 70 people who attended a seminar entitled "The Communist Party of Australia: Lessons for the 21st Century" on October 22 agreed that an anti-capitalist movement can be built: the September 11-13 (S11) protests in
An opportunity for Aboriginal children?
What makes a boat float? Children from Philadelphia School District spent part of this past school year at the Philadelphia Wooden Boat factory attempting to find the answer to that question. — messing
S11 and M1
Janet Burstall (Write On, GLW #426) suggests that it would be better for the S11 movement to focus on actions against specific global corporations instead of making its major next focus the proposed M1 (May 1) global strike against
REVIEW BY EVA CHENG
Globalization: Neoliberal Challenge, Radical ResponsesBy Robert WentTranslated by Peter DruckerPluto Press170 pp, $42.80
With Ernest Mandel, the respected Marxist economist, as one of its founders, the Amsterdam-based
BY JEREMY SMITH
BALLARAT — The largest union meetings in the history of the University of Ballarat have supported a proposal for a campaign of industrial action. Meetings at the School of Mines and the Mt Helen campus on November 2 brought
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