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Networker: Virtual taxes

Virtual taxes The issue of taxation on the internet has worried governments ever since electronic business became a household phrase in the late 1990s. A shopper in Melbourne buys a book or CD from the US. The shopper has just managed

FIJI: Indian Fijians to sue Australia

BY NORM DIXON An Indian Fijian rights group in Suva is seeking compensation from the Indian, Australian and British governments, reported the Times of India on April 3. The Peoples' Organisation for Indo-Fijian Rights and Land Resolution said these

Bay of Pigs: Yankee imperialism's first defeat in the Americas

BY VIV MILEY Following the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Washington launched many unsuccessful attempts to overthrow the popular revolution that had triumphed just 140 kilometres(90 miles) from US shores. The most notorious attempt was at the Bay of

Is globalisation inevitable?

BY SEAN HEALY "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." — Roger "Verbal" Kint (Kevin Spacey), The Usual Suspects, 1995. "M1 can be as big as it likes", someone recently said to me, "but isn't opposing

Looking out: Black Jacks

“His Majesty's ship Leopard forced the [USS] Chesapeake to surrender off the Virginia Capes in 1807, and sullied American national honor by impressing American men ... two of the four impressed sailors were men of color. White dominated

Should men participate in women's rights marches?

BY VIRGINIA BROWN & SARAH STEPHEN PERTH — This year's International Women's Day march here on March 10 was a huge success, with larger numbers marching with more energy and enthusiasm than for many years. There was also an unusually large number

Opposition grows to Southwood woodchip mill

BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — Forestry Tasmania's planned Southwood Resources woodchip mill in the Huon valley is under intense pressure from increased public opposition. This was reflected most strongly in a rally here of thousands of people on

TURKEY: First hunger striker dies

BY KATHY LOWE The first political prisoner to perish in the long-running hunger strike in Turkey's jails met his death on March 25. He was Cengiz Soydas, who died in an isolation cell in Turkey's Sincan prison after fasting for 133 days. Despite

CHINA: Angry workers stage protests

BY EVA CHENG News of what appear to be spontaneous rebellions by workers against attacks on their social rights and living standards resulting from the Chinese Communist Party bureaucracy's drive to restore capitalism continue to seep out of

TURKEY: Workers protest IMF package

BY SEAN HEALY Thousands of Turkish workers filled the streets of the country's major cities on March 31 to protest against the terms of a "bailout" package agreed between the country's government and the International Monetary Fund. Demonstrators

S11, S26, M1

BY SARAH PEART & JACKIE LYNCH Activists around the country are once again practising their anti-corporate chants for the blockades of stock exchanges and business districts on May 1, buoyed by the success, beyond most people's imaginings, of the

Save Sandon Point!

BY FLAVIA CARABALLO WOLLONGONG — Residents in the Illawarra region are fighting Wollongong City Council and the multinational Stockland company over a 428-lot housing development planned for Sandon Point, Bulli. This piece of land is one