BY DAVE MURPHY
DARWIN — Chanting and music brought the generally sleepy business district of this city to life on May 1 as anti-corporate protesters peacefully blockaded the main entrance to the Northern Territory Chamber of Commerce, before
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"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
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
BanditsBy Eric HobsbawmWeidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000226 pages, $40 (hb)
BY PHIL SHANNON
Thirteenth-century peasants are rarely the objects of Hollywood's attention. The notable exception, of course, is Robin Hood. The celluloid homage paid to Robin
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
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
SYDNEY — Solidarity was still needed to help Indonesian workers organise for democracy and justice, Indonesian activist Nieke told a forum here on May 2. Nieke is a leader of the Indonesian People's Democratic Party and a researcher into the
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
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
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
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