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
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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
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
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
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"One in four Americans has 'strong negative attitudes' toward Chinese Americans, would feel uncomfortable voting for an Asian American for president of the United States, and would disapprove of a family member marrying someone of Asian descent",
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
BY LISA MACDONALD
The May 2 Sydney Morning Herald editorial ("Globalisation for All") expressed surprise that May Day "should now be transmogrified into an all-purpose protest against a range of ills for which capitalism can, against all the
BY HEINRICH BOHMKE
DURBAN — About 40 kilometres outside Durban is an industrial and farming node called Hammarsdale. It appears suddenly at the end of a short rural road just off the N3 freeway and consists of a grid of streets forming 16 blocks.
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