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Canberra to shut down Mining Industry House

BY ANDREW HALL CANBERRA — Its final tactics all but refined, the Canberra M1 Alliance has predicted that its May 1 blockade of Mining Industry House, which houses the main national lobby group for the big mining companies, will be a resounding

Join the resistance to corporate globalisation!

BY KERRYN WILLIAMS For decades peasants, workers, urban poor and indigenous people in all the continents of the global South have fought mining companies, the International Monetary Fund, sweatshop operators and other forms of imperialist

'Get off the web and into action'

BY LUKE FOMIATTI SYDNEY — On an internet increasingly dominated by slick corporate web sites advertising their latest products and full of information of (at best) dubious reliability, it's a welcome change to see something completely

CANADA/QUEBEC: Massive police crackdown against FTAA protesters

BY EVA CHENG Tens of thousands of protesters took various forms of civil disobedience to express their opposition to the US-sponsored Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, April 20-22. Covered by the thin veil of equality and democratic

and ain't i a woman?: M1 and feminism

The emergence of anti-capitalist sentiment in the First World, following the protests against the World Trade Organisation meeting in Seattle in 1999, represents a significant crack in the politics of quiescence. It follows years of opposition

Socialist Alliance 'will make a mark'

BY JORGE JORQUERA  MELBOURNE — “It is exciting to hear of the newly established Socialist Alliance. Australia has for some time now had a great need for a left alliance. The Labor Party appears to have moved to the right, finding itself

WA bus drivers launch fight back

BY ANTHONY BENBOW PERTH — Metropolitan bus drivers here are fighting back against years of low pay and worsening conditions. At an April 18 stop-work meeting, drivers from three bus companies — Perth Bus, Path Transit and Southern Coast Transit

M1 calls on cops to 'avoid violence'

BY TIM STEWART BRISBANE — The M1 Alliance here has sent a letter to Queensland premier Peter Beattie and to the commissioner of police asking them to ensure that police officers exercise restraint and don't repeat the violent assaults of their

The Green "tide" hits Canberra

BY LEIGH HUGHES CANBERRA — "It was five years in the making but worth every minute of it", Australian Greens senator Bob Brown said of the Global Greens conference, held in Canberra's National Convention Centre on April 14-16. Centred on the

Their parliament versus ours

BY ALISON DELLIT On May 1, tens of thousands of people will take to streets across Australia to protest against the sacrifice of human needs to rapacious corporate greed. The M1 stock exchange blockades will be the latest skirmishes in the battle

People's Power in Cuba

People's Power: Cuba's experience with representative governmentBy Peter RomanWestview Press, 1999$60 (hb), 284 pages REVIEW BY RACHEL EVANS &KARL MILLER Genuine Marxists advocate workers' democracy and fight hard for the self-organisation of

Write on: Letters to the editor

Universal income John Tomlinson (GLW #442) calls for a universal citizens' income. The right vehemently opposes this idea, but isn't it being hypocritical? Conservative Paddy McGuinness (Sydney Morning Herald, February 10) rejects the idea that