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BY PETER BOYLE What orientation should the Socialist Alliance take towards the new global anti-corporate movement? While the founding conference of the Socialist Alliance adopted a platform that brings together the main demands and slogans of the
BY MAX LANE In moves which confirm activists' appraisals that her government represents a return to power of those allied with former dictator Suharto, the government of newly-elected president Megawati Sukarnoputri is escalating a targeted program
BY CYNTHIA PETERS Type "teen jobs" in the findinfo.com search engine, and a good portion of what it turns up will have something to do with teens and blow jobs. The few actual links to job listings talk in glorified terms about "career planning"
BY JACKIE LYNCH MELBOURNE — A solidarity committee has been established by unionists and supporters, following criminal charges of riot, affray, aggravated burglary and criminal damage being laid against six members of the Australian
BY SEAN HEALY Cuban President Fidel Castro has congratulated the 300,000 people who protested against global capitalism during the July 20-22 summit of G8 leaders in Genoa, Italy, and joked that world leaders might soon have to meet on the
The New Rulers of the WorldWritten and directed by John PilgerScreening on SBS, Tuesday, August 21, 8.30pm REVIEW BY SEAN HEALY "Do you know the difference between Tanzania and Goldman Sachs? The gross national product of Tanzania is $2.2
BY FEDERICO FUENTES MELBOURNE — Students have begun to organise for the biggest possible blockade of the Commonwealth Business Forum on October 3 to 5. On nearly all university and TAFE campuses, students have formed collectives to help build the
BY SAM FROST Oil giant ExxonMobil's operations in the Indonesian province of Aceh are to be examined by a US court, after 11 Acehnese filed a suit against the company, claiming to have suffered human rights abuses at the hands of military units
BY MAX LANE Military generals and figures linked to the regime of former dictator Suharto have done well in the first cabinet of newly-elected President Megawati Sukarnoputri, which was announced on August 9. In a signal move, Sukarnoputri has
BY SUE BOLTON In line with its perspective that the Socialist Alliance needs to give support to extra-parliamentary campaigns, the conference voted to support the protests being organised against the Commonwealth Business Forum in
BY TIM GOODEN& ALISON DELLIT One of the hottest debates at the August 4-5 Socialist Alliance national conference was the relationship between the alliance and the unions. Green Left Weekly spoke to two Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU)
BY PETER BOYLE SYDNEY — As I rocked up to Sydney University for my usual Green Left Weekly sales spot on August 9, three university security officers were attempting to close down the Socialist Worker club's literature stall in the library