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Bracks backs outsourcing government

BY CHRIS SLEE MELBOURNE — As tens of thousands of people linked arms, sang songs, danced jigs and blockaded the World Economic Forum from September 11 to 13, Victorian Labor Premier Steve Bracks was also extremely busy. In between loudly

Unionists Against Corporate Tyranny on the web

BY SUSAN PRICE Unionists Against Corporate Tyranny has launched a new web site which, according to site editor Melanie Sjoberg, will help broaden the campaign against corporate-led globalisation. "The site has only been up for a week", said

Labour Day condemns Coalition, backs ALP

BY JOHN NEBAUER ADELAIDE — The federal Coalition's industrial policies were the main target of workers' anger at the annual Labour Day march and rally, organised by the United Trades and Labor Council here on September 29. UTLC assistant

COLOMBIA: Paramilitaries suspected of murders of four indigenous leaders

Heavily armed gunmen, suspected of belonging to a paramilitary group, murdered four leaders from the Embera-Kateo indigenous communities in Colombia's Upper Sinu River Basin on September 19. Twenty other Embera-Kateo people were abducted by the

'Nothing has changed' since John Pat's death

BY ROBERTO JORQUERA FREMANTLE — "This ceremony of remembrance was for all peoples who have died in police and prison custody and police pursuits", WA Deaths in Custody Watch Committee chairperson Murray Jones told the 60 people who gathered for

S26 actions around Australia

BY RACHEL EVANS MELBOURNE — More than 600 people braved a wet, cold day to attend a solidarity action here with the Prague demonstrations against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The action was called by the S11 Alliance and was

Left students poll well at Curtin

BY JANE ARMANASCO PERTH — Left-wing activists have performed well in elections to the Curtin University student guild here, but have been unable to oust conservative and apolitical incumbents, who retained 12 out of 16 positions on guild

EAST TIMOR: Militia still armed and dangerous

Nothing can highlight more the failure of the Indonesian government to rein in the pro-Jakarta militias operating in West Timor than the sham weapons handover that began on September 22. The first three-day "persuasive" phase of the handover has been

Joy picketers: 'We won't give in'

BY MARG PERROTT WOLLONGONG — Workers and their supporters maintaining a 6-month picket outside Joy Mining Machinery Manufacturing at Moss Vale had hoped for a breakthrough this week. It appeared that there were only a small number of points yet

Loose cannons

For whom? "Making money is always a less harmful activity than mass politics". Padraic P McGuinness in the Sydney Morning Herald, September 28. Morale boost "Violent clashes with S11 protesters at the recent World Economic Forum had been a

S26: Jail solidarity

Hundreds of protesters were arrested during the S26 protests; many remain in appalling conditions in Czech jails. They need your help. Write to the authorities in Prague to demand the immediate release of the arrestees and the release to

UNITED STATES: Too much corporate power?

UNITED STATES: Too much corporate power? SAN FRANCISCO — Working people — workers, small farmers and those called "middle-income families" — know in their guts corporations have too much power. The September 11 Business Week confirmed it.