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
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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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Traffic, the latest film by director Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich), uses a series of
Dubious message
"Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must be open." — George W. Bush, at the swearing-in ceremony for US agriculture secretary Ann Veneman, March 2, 2001.
Free market system
"We don't think
BY LIAM MITCHELL
As the Easter holiday break hit, Ansett Airlines was warned by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) that its license to operate could be cancelled due to continuing safety problems through missed maintenance schedules.
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 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,
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
For decades peasants, workers, urban poor and indigenous people in all the continents of the global South have fought mining companies, the International Monetary Fund, sweatshop operators and other forms of imperialist
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — Its final tactics all but refined, the Canberra M1 Alliance has predicted that its May 1 blockade of Mining Industry House, which houses the main national lobby group for the big mining companies, will be a resounding
BY LUKE FOMIATTI
SYDNEY On an internet increasingly dominated by slick corporate
web sites advertising their latest products and full of information of
(at best) dubious reliability, it's a welcome change to see something completely
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 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
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