BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Scottish Socialist Party is causing a stir in the run-up to Britain's June 7 general election. The party will contest all 72 seats in Scotland, its most ambitious election campaign to date.
"What we want from this election is
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Egalitarian society
"The annual Australian rich list was released last week estimating Kerry Packer's wealth at more than $6 billion. This is the equivalent of the wealth of 38,895 average Australians." — Sunday Telegraph, May 20.
Toward a
BY REBECCA MECKELBURG
ADELAIDE — Despite the presentation of a petition signed by 80 students which called for the re-affiliation of the Flinders University M1 Action Group, the May 16 student council meeting of the Students' Association of
Perth M1
Grant Coleman ("Police assaults fail to deter blockade", GLW #447) asserts that police attempted to get people through the May 1 Perth stock exchange blockade rather than use a rear entrance that was left open by the protesters. In fact,
BY HEBA SALEH
Ten days of rioting, beginning in late April, in the Algerian Berber-speaking region of Kabylia have led to the death of scores of demonstrators — all killed by the security forces' gunfire.
As ever in Algeria, there are no
BY SARAH PEART
MELBOURNE - On May 18, for the eighth Friday in a row, anti-corporate protesters peacefully blockaded the entrances to Nike's superstore on Swanston Street, in the centre of the city. The authorities are hitting back, however, in
HIH is not a bad apple
Public calls for a full-scale royal commission into the collapse of
failed insurance giant HIH are mounting. And so they should be it's high
time that the insurance industry was dragged kicking and screaming
BY SIMON BUTLER
BRISBANE — The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting here in October is set to be a focus for militant actions against the forum's expressed support for corporate globalisation.
Groups and individuals involved in organising
BY NAOMI KLEIN
Let's face it, the street theatre in London was a bit of a McProtest.
The idea of turning London into a life-sized Monopoly board on May Day sounded like a great idea to me.
The most familiar criticism lobbed at modern protesters
Three years after the chief of clothing giant Nike, Phil Knight, promised
to improve standards in the company's factories, its workers still continue
to suffer repression and poverty wages, a new report released on May 16
has found.
On
Keeping control
Most internet business are facing financial crises today, a year
after the dotcom bubble burst. Even the infrastructure companies, those
that manufacture the boxes and phone lines, software and PCs that connect
people
BY JENNY LONG
SYDNEY — Affiliates of the NSW Labor Council on May 17 called on the state Labor government to split its workers' compensation "reform" package into two parts, in the latest bid to force concessions on the controversial
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