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Callinicos to speak at Sydney conference

BY JOHN PERCY SYDNEY — British Marxist intellectual Alex Callinicos will be a keynote speaker at the second Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference, scheduled for Easter 2002 in Sydney. Callinicos will represent the Socialist

EAST TIMOR: UN lets Indonesian military off the hook

BY VANYA TANAJA DILI — News that Indonesia has formally agreed to set up an ad hoc tribunal to try those responsible for mass murder in East Timor around the period of the 1999 independence referendum was welcomed by Sergio de Mello, head of

May Day around the world

BY NORM DIXON May 1, the international day of solidarity with the struggles of the working class and the oppressed, was marked by millions of people around the world. In some countries, young militants inspired by the wave of mass

Vox pop

"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

Unity rally a victory for coalition-building

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

M1 and trade unions

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

and ain't i a woman?: Populate or perish: where sexism and racism collude

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

Audacity inspires Hobart to protest

BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — Months of hard work by organisers paid off on May 1 when hundreds of people participated in the largest anti-capitalist protest this city has ever seen. Organisers admit that even on the morning of the blockade, they

Radical South African magazine relaunched

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

A day like few others

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

May Day reclaimed!

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

Vox pop

"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