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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All out on M1!

All out on M1!   Something special will happen on May 1. For the first time ever in Australia, thousands of people will take action, simultaneously across the country, against the stock exchange, the symbolic heart and soul

Students to strike on M1

BY ANGELA LUVERA SYDNEY — High school students all around Australia are preparing to strike on May 1 to join the blockades and protests against corporate rule. Students will be striking for many reasons — for the cancellation of third world

John Pilger lashes IMF

BY MAX LANE Spread the word now! John Pilger's vivid and evocative writing and film-making, and the voices from the Third World that he brings onto the screen, will make his new documentary New Rulers of the World a landmark event in explaining the

The camps within our borders

SYDNEY — "Naw?", asks the woman at the big desk. "Nawi to ciea?", she waits, pen poised above a sheaf of papers. "Walamai prsirako bdarawa!", the man next to her barks, "Nawi kasakaw sabay ziarat ciea?". Someone in the queue behind comes to the