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
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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 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,
"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 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
"Today has been really inspiring, seeing everybody coming together to challenge the power of corporations, the very basis of capitalism. It's shown that what was launched at S11 was not just a one off demonstration but a new movement. Blockading
"Blockading the stock exchange today we have given renewed confidence to people suffering under globalisation, that it is not inevitable. And we can stop it. This renewed confidence will mean that the protests around CHOGM will draw in ever wider
BY PETER BOYLE
Just seven months after S11, the radical left has once again tapped the powerful anti-corporate globalisation sentiment in the community. The 20,000 or more activists mobilised on May 1 across eight cities in Australia were cheered
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
BY MAX LANE
Contrary to many predictions circulating in Jakarta during the last few weeks, the Indonesian capital remained calm after the Golkar-Central Axis-led majority in the House of Representatives voted to censure President Abdurrahman Wahid
BY JAMES CRAFTI
MELBOURNE — While most of the M1 protests around Australia were marked by police violence, Melbourne's M1 blockade and rally was not attacked by police forces. So it came as a shock when the weekly peaceful picket of the Nike
e-Imperialism
E-commerce isn't looking too healthy in the US today. The new economy
of the dot coms has shown remarkable similarities to traditional boom
and bust capitalist economies. If anything the rise and fall of the high-tech
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