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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BY SEAN HEALY
The socialist island nation of Cuba received praise from an unlikely source on May Day — from James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, one of the chief enforcers of corporate globalisation.
Wolfensohn told a news conference
"M1 was brilliant. It will go down one of the most significant mobilisation in Australia's history. But one of the things that we can be a bit unhappy about is that the official trade union movement has brought relatively little to it, except in
BY TANIA JORQUERA
MELBOURNE Victoria University of Technology will play host to the
inaugural meeting of a newly formed refugee rights campaign. Refugee Action
Collective (West) will be based in Melbourne's western suburbs to meet
the
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
When I was a teenager, I got a gun. My parents didn't have them lying
around the house. I bought it for $25 on the street. I had it in my pants
at a movie theater when I saw one of my regular tormentors... [He] wasn't
in the mood to confront
"City workers and commuters were beseiged today as hundreds of anti-globalisation protesters attempted to blockade the Australian Stock Exchange, and took to the streets to march against what they claim to be 'corporate tyranny'.
"The so-called
BY MAX LANE
At least 50,000 workers, mostly members of the Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggles (FNPBI), joined protests in 19 cities in Sulawesi, Bali, Java and Sumatra. The largest mobilisations were in Medan and the East Java town of
BY FAROOQ TARIQ& RIZWAN ATTA
LAHORE — "If workers want to remember the martyrs of the 1886 uprising of Chicago, they should hold the meetings indoors", stated retired general Moeen Haider, federal interior minister, on April 28. "No-one,
BY TIM STEWART
BRISBANE — At times, the scenes outside the stock exchange on 123 Eagle St on May 1 resembled one huge street party, with chanting, cheering, speech-making, dancing, and chalking up slogans on the pavement, all taking place in
BY ALLEN JENNINGS & MICHAEL KARADJIS
HANOI — Vietnam will stay firmly on a socialist path as it confronts the daunting challenges of economic reform and equitable development. This was the prevailing theme of the Ninth Congress of the Communist
BY JOHN PERCY
On May 1, the Socialist Workers Party in Scotland joined the Scottish Socialist Party, an historic development creating a united socialist party in Scotland for the first time in generations.
Tommy Sheridan, convener of the SSP, and
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