Analysis

  • After M1: See you at CHOGM!

    BY PETER BOYLE  With the successful M1 mobilisations under its belt, the movement against corporate globalisation will soon discuss its next major focus. A month ago we floated the idea of a Canberra convergence against the new

  • Lest we forget what?

    In case you missed it, April 25 was Anzac Day. And in case you didn't get the message of the day, it was printed on the Australian flags that lined the march routes: "Their Sacrifice. Our Heritage." Anzac Day is not about commemorating the

  • Differing views on high school action

    What the corporate media says: “But worst of all is M1's concerted push to get kids out of school and involved in a potentially dangerous protest. Instead, they should consider joining those kids on May 1 for a high school economics lesson.”

  • S11, S26, M1

    BY SARAH PEART & JACKIE LYNCH Activists around the country are once again practising their anti-corporate chants for the blockades of stock exchanges and business districts on May 1, buoyed by the success, beyond most people's imaginings, of the

  • Time for drug decriminalisation

    Time for the decriminalisation of drugs The second phase of Prime Minister John Howard's “Tough on Drugs” campaign is a $27 million “education” campaign involving a series of TV advertisements and a glossy booklet to be distributed to

  • After M1: Let's converge on Canberra to stop the WTO

    The big corporate powers and their governments want the ministerial summit of the World Trade Organisation, planned for Qatar in November, to undo what was won at Seattle by thousands of people in the street and by the delegations of

  • World Bank, Australia out of PNG!

    Rank and file soldiers of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force rebelled on March 23, giving PNG Prime Minister Sir Mekere Morauta until noon on March 26 to repudiate a cabinet decision to sack more than half of all PNGDF personnel. The soldiers also

  • M1: The people behind the letters

    The two letters — M1 — are certainly getting around: they're on flyers, on lamp posts, stencilled onto footpaths, they've even started to get into the mainstream media. The idea is getting around too: "we're going to blockade the

  • Australian ownership of Woodside in whose interest?

    On March 6 eight West Australian Liberal MPs wrote a letter calling on Prime Minister John Howard to block the imminent $10 billion takeover of Australia's 12th largest company, Woodside Petroleum, by the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell.

  • Hanson's "anti-globalism" and ours

    It was entirely predictable that Pauline Hanson's One Nation would try to jump on the "anti-globalisation" bandwagon. After all, that's what right-wing populists do — jump on bandwagons — and there's no issue more popular at present than hatred

  • No to 'user pays' unionism

    The Industrial Relations Commission has endorsed the ability of unions to collect a "service fee" from non-unionists who benefit from union-negotiated pay rises. "Fee for service" unionism was adopted as policy at the 2000 ACTU national congress.

  • Feminism and socialism

    Everyday, women are oppressed by capitalist society's ideal of "beauty" and are told that what we look like is more important than what we think. Meanwhile, millions of migrant women work in sweatshops, "honour" killings