The Australian Senate passed the following motion, moved by Australian Greens Senator Bob Brown, on June 19:
That the Senate:
a) notes the police raid that resulted in the unlawful detention of 32 foreigners (including 20 Australians) attending a
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By Danny Fairfax
On November 30, 1999, 75,000 people converged on Seattle to successfully stop the World Trade Organisation trade talks. Taking inspiration from that momentous event, similar actions have taken place around the world in opposition
BY SEAN WALSH
MELBOURNE — Two hundred protesters successfully blockaded the Nike superstore on Friday June 22, despite police attempts to disperse them. The weekly blockades, protesting Nike's extreme exploitation of workers in the Third World,
BY SEAN HEALY
Two of the world's largest oil multinationals have admitted that they hired a London private investigation agency with links to the British secret service to spy on the protest activities of Greenpeace, the Body Shop and other
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — "We were sacked for joining the union of our choice, a union which would actually stand up for our rights, not sit with management", says factory worker Linh Nguyen of the bitter dispute at Metroshelf, in Sydney's
REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM
Me, You, ThemDirected by Andrucha WaddingtonWith Regina Case, Lima Duarte, Stenio Garcia and Luiz Carlos VasconcelosScreened at the Sydney Film Festival, June 6-22
If you saw Central Station, you'll have an idea of the
BY NICK EVERETT & REBECCA MECKELBURG
BANDUNG — Police have arrested six members of the radical People's Democratic Party (PRD) in West Java, in an attempt to repress the largest strike the Indonesian province has seen since the coming to power of
BY JO WILLIAMS
MELBOURNE — The rapid expansion of Socialist Alliance is continuing, with the launch on July 18 of a new branch of the alliance in Melbourne's western suburbs.
The meeting, attended by more than 40 people, discussed how the
BY PIP HINMAN
The federal government is secretly trying to return to the widely discredited "special relationship" with the Indonesian government, developed by both Labor and Liberal parties during the 32-year reign of Suharto. And it is doing it
BY SEAN HEALY
Environmentalists around the globe are planning to make July 11 an "international day of action" against the oil giant ExxonMobil (known in Australia as Esso), which they dub "the worst of the Greenhouse Gangsters".
ExxonMobil has
On June 6, dozens of Israeli settlers entered Luban a-Sharqiya and a-Sawiya, two Palestinian villages in the Nablus district of the West Bank, both of which are under complete Israeli security control, and burned agricultural fields, a hothouse, a
US band Spearhead are one of the most radical voices in popular music. Spearhead's Michael Franti talked to MARK BROWN and JO HARVIE about the politics behind Stay Human, the band's critically acclaimed new album.
Stay Human is a powerful attack on
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