M1 target
A mistake in my article on the M1 Alliance in Melbourne in last week's Green Left could have given readers the entirely wrong impression of what sort of action target is being discussed by the new M1 Alliance in Melbourne. The article
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SYDNEY — You passionately committed to a political cause. You have been given $30,000 to help you bring about political change. What do you do with it? Fund a demonstration? Design a web site? Hire a lobbyist? Bribe a politician? Buy guns? Or do
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — The Australian campaign in solidarity with the Palestinian people's struggle to end Israel's war against them, for self-determination and the return of their land have taken important steps forward here.
Following a
The censor in the machine
Internet growth statistics are mind numbing: hundreds of millions of
users, millions of web sites, and a flood of new content entering the sea
of the internet every day. This is a significant problem for the
BY LIISA RUSANEN
SYDNEY — In response to the human rights abuses of the military dictatorship in Burma, a protest action was held outside the Grace Brothers department store in the Pitt Street mall on November 10.
The Grace Brothers store was
BY PETER BOYLE
As more and more of the S11 activist groups around the country decide to make May 1 their next major mobilisation, the discussion now shifts to what kind of action should be organised for the day. The idea of a global strike against
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The McClure report is the recently released federal government inquiry into welfare "reform". The report canvasses shifting functions undertaken by Centrelink to private or non-profit providers. It also suggests further tightening
Profits
The four biggest banks raked in record net profits this year: National Australia Bank ($3.24 billion); the Commonwealth Bank ($2.7 billion); ANZ ($1.747 billion); and Westpac ($1.715 billion). The combined total was $9.4 billion, $2.2
BY EVA CHENG
The Indian coalition government led by the Hindu chauvinist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has stepped up its neo-liberal privatisation and economic liberalisation push. The 24-party government and its bourgeois counterparts are using
BY SUE BOLAND
At the beginning of the 20th century banks had a reputation as "bloodsuckers". Is it over-the-top to still describe them this way? When we consider the record of the major banks today (see accompanying article this page), this
BY GEORGINA DAVIES
MELBOURNE — Victoria Police have agreed to pay $50,000 to seven environment activists who were assaulted during a peaceful demonstration by 20 people in February 1994. The East Gippsland Forest Alliance protesters are to
BY CAM PARKER
SYDNEY — Recent allegations of left-wing bias at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation are little more than justifications for greater political interference by the federal Coalition government.
The big-business newspapers have
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