Free trade
Speaking at the recent Summit of the Americas in Quebec City in support of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, George Bush said that "trade not only helps spread prosperity, but trade helps spread freedom". If this is true then it
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BY FELICITY MARTIN
MELBOURNE — The joining together of 7000 unionists with 3000 stock exchange blockaders in a single unity march was a display of May Day solidarity not seen in this city for more than 60 years.
Long negotiations between the M1
BY PHIL DAVEY
I confess I made a wrong call with the May Day "M1" protest this week.
I predicted with great confidence a few days before that M1 would max out at maybe 1000 protesters. The march from Bridge Street to Martin Place at lunchtime May
Early last month, family services minister Amanda Vanstone released a discussion paper calling for incentives for Australian women to have more children. The reason? At 1.75 births per woman of child-bearing age, Australia's fertility rate has fallen
BY NORM DIXON
For weeks before May 1, British Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, London's mayor Ken Livingstone, the Metropolitan Police and the Britain's capitalist mass media relentlessly demonised and criminalised people intending to peacefully
"We went to M1 planning a peaceful mass blockade, but the cops attacked us using pain and violence to force us off Pitt St. Getting arrested didn't faze me, because third world debt is serious, poverty is serious, capitalism is serious. So we have to
The first May Day of the new century should be remembered for a long time — possibly even as a new turning point in the centuries-long struggle for global justice.
For one day, it seemed like the working people of the world rose as one: workers
BY JOHN PERCY
The magnificent M1 protests and blockades of stock exchanges in eight cities around Australia had an impact even beyond the specific demands of the 20,000 activists who took to the streets.
The greed of the corporations and the role
"I think M1 is a big step forward in saying that the problems that we see in society are not just isolated ones but are all linked together and the heart of the problem is the corporate system, capitalism, and that is what we are fighting against
BY KIM BULLIMORE
Well-known Aboriginal scholar and academic Marcia Langton made the headlines when she told the Australian Education Assembly that she was paying "protection money" by sending her daughter to a private school to ensure she escaped
BY LUCIEN VAN DER WALT
JOHANNESBURG — The radical magazine, Debate: voices from the South African left, was recently relaunched at the Workers' Library and Museum in Newtown, Johannesburg. The excellent turnout on March 23 demonstrated the
BY HARCHAND SINGH
Singapores People's Action Party government likes to boast that
it is tough but clean. However, this is a myth. Singapore's corporate
life has long being corrupt but few people dare speak out. If you do speak
out about
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