BY EVA CHENG
Public anger against escalating corruption, smuggling, tax evasion, fee extortions and other forms abuses of power by Communist Party officials found expression among the delegates in the traditionally uncontroversial annual sessions
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BY NORM DIXON
The United States government, at the urging of the big Western drug corporations, is attempting to prevent Brazil expanding its production of cheap "generic" versions of patented anti-AIDS medicines. If Washington and the drug lords
Australia's Bid for the Atomic BombBy Wayne Reynolds Melbourne University Press, 2000218pp, $32.95(pb)
REVIEW BY JIM GREEN
It has been known for many years that Australian governments considered, and pursued, the development of nuclear weapons
BY KAREN FLETCHER
BRISBANE — The M1 Alliance has issued a call for nominations for "Corporate Scumbag of the Week" in the lead up to the blockade of the Brisbane stock exchange on May 1. The campaign was launched and warmly received at the
On March 6 eight West Australian Liberal MPs wrote a letter calling on Prime Minister John Howard to block the imminent $10 billion takeover of Australia's 12th largest company, Woodside Petroleum, by the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell.
BY JEREMY SMITH
BALLARAT — The National Tertiary Education Union at the University of Ballarat has voted to back the planned M1 blockade of Melbourne's stock exchange.
The motion, passed by the branch's executive on March 9, follows strong
BY ZANNY BEGG
The Guerrilla Girls were formed in 1985 after the Museum of Modern Art in New York held a blockbuster exhibition of 169 of the world's "most significant contemporary artists". All the artists whose work was on display were white, and
BY MICHELLE BREAR
SYDNEY — Workers are continuing their actions against swimming costume manufacturer Speedo, which shut the doors of its South Windsor factory on March 2, leaving 65 workers without jobs. Sixty of the workers were women who had
BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — "The borders are open for the capitalists to exploit workers all over the world but they are shut in the faces of refugees and poor people", Surma Hamid of the Committee in Defence of Iraqi Women's Rights told a forum
BY SEAN HEALY
The two letters — M1 — are certainly getting around: they're on flyers, on lamp posts, stencilled onto footpaths, they've even started to get into the mainstream media. The idea is getting around too: "we're going to blockade the
BY JIM GREEN
The federal government's plan to build a new nuclear research reactor in the southern Sydney suburb of Lucas Heights hit another hurdle on March 15 when a French court banned a ship from unloading 360 spent fuel rods from the existing
S11 DocoWritten, produced and directed by Charlie Hill-Smith, Cindy Elliot & Pat Stirling$8Order a copy by email at <charlie@cobweb.com.au>
StruggleKineticDistributed by MGM Records
BY SEAN HEALY
I've spent most of the last six months
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