BY SEAN HEALY
Despite their best efforts over the past 18 months, the world's most powerful governments have had little success strong-arming others into agreeing to a new, comprehensive round of World Trade Organisation talks, which they had hoped
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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
High school students all around Australia are preparing to strike on May 1 to join the blockades and protests against corporate rule.
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
BY NORM DIXON
In late March, newspaper headlines hailed the announcement that giant Australian-owned mining, oil and steel corporation BHP and the huge Anglo-South African mining and base metals conglomerate Billiton had agreed to merge, forming
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — “When I first heard about the idea of the Socialist Alliance,
these old bones straightened up a bit. I wanted to know more about it.
I wanted to be able to participate with tens of thousands of others to
change the
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
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
BY SEAN HEALY
The decision to site the World Trade Organisation's next ministerial conference in the repressive emirate of Qatar wasn't only intended to prevent mass demonstrations. It was also designed to split opponents of a new trade round into
BY JIM GREEN
The best excuse that Western corporate polluters and their political allies have devised to justify their efforts to wreck the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions is that it does not mandate reductions in the countries of the
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
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