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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
COMMENT BY SARAH STEPHEN Aboriginal communities are populated by drunken, violent criminals, are racked by internal squabbling and lack any credible leadership — if you believe corporate media reporting of indigenous domestic violence.
BY SEAN HEALY Some of the world's largest corporations came under fire in the southern Californian city of San Diego on June 24, when 1600 environmentalists marched on the annual convention of the Biotechnology Industry Organisation, to protest
Insensitive humour "A person reveals his [or her] character by nothing so clearly as the joke [s/]he resents." — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799). The chosen profession of Lichtenberg was physics, but as you can see by the quote that
NSW Blue Mountains bluemountains@socialist-alliance.org Info: 9687 5134 Lismore lismore@socialist-alliance.org Info: 6622 5050 (Edda) or 6622 0103 (Nick) Newcastle newcastle@socialist-alliance.org Info: 4926 5328 (Steve)
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
BY MALIK MIAH On June 8, the United States Civil Rights Commission issued a divided report on the electoral process in Florida during the 2000 presidential election. By a partisan vote of six to two, the eight-member commission voted along party
BY JENNIFER WANJIRU NAIROBI — Environmentalists in Kenya have threatened court action to stop the filming of the US television show Survivor Series III, that formally begins on July 1 and runs to September 30. They accuse the filmmakers of
Watermarks 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
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 JESS RODGERS "Who did the killings? Who did the killings? Downer doesn't know — he hasn't even condemned them!", James Vassilopoulos, a representative of the Socialist Alliance told protesters in Canberra on June 29. The emergency protest
Protest opposes military ties @box text intr = DARWIN — Members of Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor held an action during the June 25 visit of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, opposing any federal government attempt to