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BY EVA CHENG There has been such a big wave of domestic and cross-border corporate mergers and takeovers in the last few years that some commentators have started comparing their importance with the merger wave that took place in the US around the
By Stephen Marks In shanty towns outside Buenos Aires, the French-Argentine water company Aguas Argentinas has "encouraged" communities to voluntarily dig ditches and lay pipes to connect their homes to the water mains. Privatised water companies
Beverley uranium mine opened BY JIM GREEN The uranium mine at Beverley in northern South Australia was formally opened on February 21. It is Australia's first new uranium mine since Western Mining Corporation's Olympic Dam opened 12
BY SEAN HEALY Australia's aid contribution to poor countries is among the most miserly of any industrialised nation, according to a new report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The OECD report, released on February
Networker: Crisis free production? Can the “new economy” escape the problem of the old capitalist economy, the boom-and-bust cycle? (“New economy” is a term applied to a range of corporations and activities with some connection to new
By Pat Brewer 2001 has been declared as the year of international solidarity against the 41-year US economic, financial and trade blockade, the Cuban Adjustment Act and all the supporting laws and regulations designed to isolate Cuba
BY LUKE FOMIATTI SYDNEY — Early on the morning of February 19, 100 students and unionists joined together for a symbolic blockade of the "Designing, launching and managing a corporate university" conference at a luxury hotel in the exclusive
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY ADELAIDE — Nurses employed in the state's public hospitals imposed work bans from February 22 in support of claims for a 15% pay rise over three years, after rejecting state government offers of increases which the union
It was entirely predictable that Pauline Hanson's One Nation would try to jump on the "anti-globalisation" bandwagon. After all, that's what right-wing populists do — jump on bandwagons — and there's no issue more popular at present than hatred
By Lara Pullin CISLAC has launched an appeal for funds to help El Salvador recover from the damage and ongoing aftermath of three earthquakes and numerous aftershocks which have hit El Salvador. In a period of one month El Salvador has
It can be hard to be a feminist in the 21st century. We face the myth that women are liberated and that we no longer need to fight. We are often asked questions like, "Why do you bother? Women were liberated in the '60s when they all burnt their bras
By Neville Spencer Over the last decade, neoliberal regimes compliant to the needs of Washington have been established in almost all the countries of Latin America with exception of Cuba. However, the election of left-populist Hugo Chavez in