BY LUKE FOMIATTI
SYDNEY On an internet increasingly dominated by slick corporate
web sites advertising their latest products and full of information of
(at best) dubious reliability, it's a welcome change to see something completely
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BY JORGE JORQUERA
MELBOURNE It is exciting to hear of the newly established Socialist
Alliance. Australia has for some time now had a great need for a left alliance.
The Labor Party appears to have moved to the right, finding itself
BY IGGY KIM
SEOUL — Hundreds of riot police have attacked 400 workers laid off by the troubled Korean car manufacturer Daewoo, injuring 70, in an attempt to prevent the workers gaining entry to their own union office. But their assault may have
A national day of action to free the refugees has been called for June
3. It has been endorsed by the ACTU, the Victorian Trades Hall Council
and refugee rights campaign groups around the country and is calling for
the closure of the detention
BY PIP HINMAN
@box text intr = Activists from around 20 countries will be gathering in Jakarta between June 7 and 10 to discuss regional responses to the neo-liberal offensive hitting the people of Asia.
Apart from Indonesia, Aceh and East Timor,
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — Its final tactics all but refined, the Canberra M1 Alliance has predicted that its May 1 blockade of Mining Industry House, which houses the main national lobby group for the big mining companies, will be a resounding
People's Power: Cuba's experience with representative governmentBy Peter RomanWestview Press, 1999$60 (hb), 284 pages
REVIEW BY RACHEL EVANS &KARL MILLER
Genuine Marxists advocate workers' democracy and fight hard for the self-organisation of
BY SEAN HEALY
Authorities in the mid-west city of Cincinatti have lifted a week-long night-time curfew, imposed after the city's black residents rose up in anger at the police's April 7 killing of 19-year-old Timothy Thomas.
Thomas was killed as
BY SEAN HEALY
Despite their best efforts over the past 18 months, the world's most powerful governments have had little success strong-arming others into agreeing to a new, comprehensive round of World Trade Organisation talks, which they had hoped
BY EVA CHENG
Tens of thousands of protesters took various forms of civil disobedience to express their opposition to the US-sponsored Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, April 20-22.
Covered by the thin veil of equality and democratic
High school students all around Australia are preparing to strike on May 1 to join the blockades and protests against corporate rule.
SYDNEY — "Naw?", asks the woman at the big desk. "Nawi to ciea?", she waits, pen poised above a sheaf of papers. "Walamai prsirako bdarawa!", the man next to her barks, "Nawi kasakaw sabay ziarat ciea?". Someone in the queue behind comes to the
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