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Ever taped a record or CD music track for a friend? It's illegal, but lots of people do it without a thought. After all, the record companies are hardly impoverished. Now you can do much more. Millions of people are exchanging music, in
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BY SEAN HEALY
Not even a decision by the World Bank to cancel its Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics was enough to divert the anger of 40,000 Catalans, who on June 24 demonstrated against the World Bank and its devotion to corporate
"I think the economic logic of dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we have to face up to that." World Bank vice-president Lawrence Summers, December 1991.
That quote is scary not only for what it says but for
BY MATTHEW EGAN & BRONWYN POWELL
SYDNEY - More than 100 student activists from across Australia discussed the way forward for the anti-corporate movement at the June 29-30 Globalise This: Student Anti-Capitalist Conference.
The conference began
BY ROB MILLER
MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance continues to expand with a new branch set up on June 28 in the federal electorate of Melbourne.
Attended by 50 people, the Melbourne meeting brought together activists from a wide variety of
By Ian Rintoul
"A great start!" That's how the convenors of the English Socialist Alliance describe the result of the June general election, the first general election campaign of the Socialist Alliance.
The Socialist Alliance and Scottish
By Linda Waldron
"I'm not interested in the mobile phone or being addressed as 'Councillor'. What is important is to give the city back to the people. It's time the council reflected the interests of residents, small business, the poor and the
By Rebecca Lemay
The GST has got to go! It's not just a tax, but part of a system of taxation, which in the words of Business Review Weekly "is about shifting the burden of taxation from capital to labour."
The GST widens the gap between rich and
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
JAKARTA — "It's become much worse since the economic crisis. There are more homeless people, more street singers, and more street sellers", Onie told me, before turning back to his battered guitar and filling the tiny office of
BY SHUA GARFIELD
HOBART — Teaching staff at the University of Tasmania have voted to hold a 24-hour strike on July 18 after negotiations between the National Tertiary Education Union and university administration on a new enterprise agreement
BY SEAN HEALY
What started as a peaceful student sit-in against privatisation may yet erupt into a nationwide uprising against Prime Minister Sir Makere Morauta, after police shot dead at least three students in what some have dubbed "Papua New
BY MARY MERKENICH & NORRIAN RUNDLE
Victorian teachers have been sold out again by their union, following its decision to abandon a campaign for increased schools funding in the state budget.
The Australian Education Union had called a stopwork
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