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.
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Craig Johnston, the militant
leader of Victoria's Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, has been one
of the Socialist Alliance's strongest backers since the announcement of
its formation. Here is an abridged version of his speech to the
BY PIP HINMAN
@box text intr = Activists from around 20 countries will be gathering in Jakarta between June 7 and 10 to discuss regional responses to the neo-liberal offensive hitting the people of Asia.
Apart from Indonesia, Aceh and East Timor,
Geelong M1 sets up web site
GEELONG — The collective organising a regional contingent for the Melbourne M1 blockade has established a web site of its own.
Its designer, Camilo Jorquera, said the web site
BY EVA CHENG
It's not hard to understand why the unauthorised landing of a US spy plane on China's southern Hainan island on April 1 sparked an international diplomatic crisis. Just turn the tables.
Imagine what Washington would have done if a
BY EVA CHENG
Tens of thousands of protesters took various forms of civil disobedience to express their opposition to the US-sponsored Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, April 20-22.
Covered by the thin veil of equality and democratic
SYDNEY — In lively scenes reminiscent of the 1990s' campaign for East Timor's freedom, about 100 protesters — many of them Acehnese — gathered outside the Indonesian consulate here on April 21 to demand the Indonesian military leave Aceh and a
The emergence of anti-capitalist sentiment in the First World, following the protests against the World Trade Organisation meeting in Seattle in 1999, represents a significant crack in the politics of quiescence. It follows years of opposition
BY LEIGH HUGHES
CANBERRA — "It was five years in the making but worth every minute of it", Australian Greens senator Bob Brown said of the Global Greens conference, held in Canberra's National Convention Centre on April 14-16.
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