More than 900 people took part in a march in Edinburgh on May 5 to mark the 75th anniversary of the British general strike. Veteran Labour MP Tony Benn and Scottish Socialist Party MP Tommy Sheridan addressed the protest.
"People complain about the
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BY EVA CHENG
Australia was singled out for praise by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld twice on May 7. That his praise came five days after US President George W. Bush's declaration of support for the National Missile Defence scheme was no
BY JABULANE MATSEBULA
The Swaziland government launched a vicious attack on the freedom of speech and the press on May 4, when it issued an order to shut down the Guardian of Swaziland and the Nation Magazine.
Police impounded copies of the
BY PETER PERKINS
I was disappointed and disgusted at the ideas expressed
by Rob Gowland in a recent article of the Guardian newspaper on
the M1 protests [see accompanying box Ed.].
Many of the opinions that have been put
BY JAMES CRAFTI & JODY BETZEIN
MELBOURNE — Around 250 people participated in the "regular" Friday evening Nike superstore blockade on Swanston Street on May 11. The Nike superstore was successfully shut-down by protesters for the eighth week in a
BY NOREEN NAVIN
SYDNEY — Pressure is mounting on Bob Carr's state Labor government to back down on its controversial "Building the Future" plan, which will force the closure of several inner-city high schools.
A rally outside the Department of
The federal government has already made formal liberalisation proposals
in the following sectors:
architecture services;
engineering services;
financial services;
construction services;
Indigenous elders from six Andean communities that grow nuna beans met in late February for a traditional Quechua "tribunal" to deliberate on US patent no. 6,040,503 on the "bean-nut popping bean" awarded to US food processor Appropriate Engineering
Municipal elections in France, which took place on March 11 and 18 and are an important litmus test for the mood of the country, have brought a few surprises.
The conservative right has lost the two most important local government positions, the
BY VIV MILEY
Twenty thousand people marched through Istanbul on May Day in support of left-wing hunger strikers in Turkey's jails. Twenty two prisoners have starved themselves to death since October, in a protest against authorities' decision to
In the weeks leading up to the M1 protests against corporate tyranny,
the big-business media waged psychological warfare against those who might
be thinking of attending, arguing that the protests were useless, violent,
undemocratic and
BY PHIL HEARSE
LONDON — Ten thousand police were mobilised here on May 1, against the "threat" posed by 5000 anti-capitalist demonstrators. This grotesque overkill was accompanied by a weeks-long barrage of press hysteria, warning of "anarchy"
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