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"I think M1 is a big step forward in saying that the problems that we see in society are not just isolated ones but are all linked together and the heart of the problem is the corporate system, capitalism, and that is what we are fighting against
BY KIM BULLIMORE Well-known Aboriginal scholar and academic Marcia Langton made the headlines when she told the Australian Education Assembly that she was paying "protection money" by sending her daughter to a private school to ensure she escaped
BY LUCIEN VAN DER WALT JOHANNESBURG — The radical magazine, Debate: voices from the South African left, was recently relaunched at the Workers' Library and Museum in Newtown, Johannesburg. The excellent turnout on March 23 demonstrated the
BY HARCHAND SINGH Singapore’s People's Action Party government likes to boast that it is tough but “clean”. However, this is a myth. Singapore's corporate life has long being corrupt but few people dare speak out. If you do speak out about
"M1 was brilliant. It will go down one of the most significant mobilisation in Australia's history. But one of the things that we can be a bit unhappy about is that the official trade union movement has brought relatively little to it, except in
BY TANIA JORQUERA MELBOURNE — Victoria University of Technology will play host to the inaugural meeting of a newly formed refugee rights campaign. Refugee Action Collective (West) will be based in Melbourne's western suburbs to meet the
Nice Cossacks "In fact, the modern use of horses, while deliberately visually intimidating, involves mainly sideways movement of the horses to jostle the crowd in the direction required." — the Sydney Morning Herald's chief right-wing crank
BY SEAN HEALY The socialist island nation of Cuba received praise from an unlikely source on May Day — from James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, one of the chief enforcers of corporate globalisation. Wolfensohn told a news conference
“When I was a teenager, I got a gun. My parents didn't have them lying around the house. I bought it for $25 on the street. I had it in my pants at a movie theater when I saw one of my regular tormentors... [He] wasn't in the mood to confront
BY MAX LANE At least 50,000 workers, mostly members of the Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggles (FNPBI), joined protests in 19 cities in Sulawesi, Bali, Java and Sumatra. The largest mobilisations were in Medan and the East Java town of
BY FAROOQ TARIQ& RIZWAN ATTA LAHORE — "If workers want to remember the martyrs of the 1886 uprising of Chicago, they should hold the meetings indoors", stated retired general Moeen Haider, federal interior minister, on April 28. "No-one,
BY TIM STEWART BRISBANE — At times, the scenes outside the stock exchange on 123 Eagle St on May 1 resembled one huge street party, with chanting, cheering, speech-making, dancing, and chalking up slogans on the pavement, all taking place in