The emergence of anti-capitalist sentiment in the First World, following the protests against the World Trade Organisation meeting in Seattle in 1999, represents a significant crack in the politics of quiescence. It follows years of opposition
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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
BY NOREEN NAVIN
SYDNEY — The April release of the NSW Labor government's "Building the Future" report has generated a community backlash not seen since former NSW Coalition education minister Terry Metherell took the axe to public education in
BY ALISON DELLIT
On May 1, tens of thousands of people will take to streets across Australia to protest against the sacrifice of human needs to rapacious corporate greed. The M1 stock exchange blockades will be the latest skirmishes in the battle
BY LEIGH HUGHES
CANBERRA — "It was five years in the making but worth every minute of it", Australian Greens senator Bob Brown said of the Global Greens conference, held in Canberra's National Convention Centre on April 14-16.
Centred on the
BY NORM DIXON
The Pacific tourist Mecca of Honolulu is to be the next focus of demonstrations against the international capitalist financial institutions — in this case the Asian Development Bank. The ADB's board of governors is to meet at the
BY ANGELA LUVERA
SYDNEY — High school students all around Australia are preparing to strike on May 1 to join the blockades and protests against corporate rule.
Students will be striking for many reasons — for the cancellation of third world
BY MAX LANE
Spread the word now! John Pilger's vivid and evocative writing and film-making, and the voices from the Third World that he brings onto the screen, will make his new documentary New Rulers of the World a landmark event in explaining the
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