ADELAIDE — McDonald's decision to sponsor this year's Clean Up Australia Day came under attack here on March 4, when 30 people protested outside the multinational's Rundle Mall store in protest at its hypocrisy.
Representatives of the S11
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The financial markets comprise many interlocking markets in different financial instruments. These are the basic ones:
Shares: A share is a tradeable certificate of part-ownership of a company listed on a stock exchange. A shareholder owns a part
BY STUART MUNCKTON
CANBERRA — After much debate over some months, the M1 Alliance here has decided to organise a peaceful blockade outside Mining Industry House, rather than join the blockade at the Sydney stock exchange.
The decision was taken
Various left forces and progressive activists in India are planning to launch a National Campaign Against Globalisation in New Delhi on March 21-23.
An appeal for attendance at a conference, to be held over the three days to coincide the launch,
The Bogus WomanBy Kay AdsheadPerformer: Noma DumezweniBush Theatre, London
REVIEW BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
Detention of refugees, and their resistance to the inhumane situation in which this places them, is not confined to Australia. England also has
BY DOD ROSHANBIN
BRISBANE — Ross Daniels of Amnesty International told a public meeting here on March 1 that a 200-inmate immigration detention centre is planned for a yet to be revealed Brisbane site.
Daniels also said that the federal ALP's
$1.2 billion: One day's trading on the Australian Stock Exchange.
$1 billion: The amount needed to restore public funding of higher education in Australia to pre-1990 levels.
US$35.5 billion: One day's trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
BY BEA BREAR
HOBART — Activists on the University of Tasmania's Hobart campus launched their campaign to encourage students to participate in the May 1 strike against corporate tyranny at a media conference here on March 8, announcing that they
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — In what will be the broadest left conference held in this city for many years, activists from the growing anti-corporate movement and a wide range of local campaigns will gather at the University of Technology's Markets
BY KEARA COURTNEY
CANBERRA — The capitalist system wasn't unable to meet the needs of the majority of people, it was unwilling to, the Democratic Socialist Party's Max Lane told a forum held at the Australian National University here on March 7.
Globalisation Unplugged: A compilation of 3CR's S11 coverageProduced by Rachel Maher and Juliet Fox$20 Available from 3CRPh: (03) 9419 8377Email: <staff3cr@vicnet.net.au>PO Box 1277,Collingwood Vic 3066
REVIEWED BY SUSAN PRICE
The
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — BHP Coal's head office here faces a protest by anti-corporate activists on March 16, who will act in solidarity with the struggle by BHP coalminers in central Queensland.
As part of a campaign to expose "corporate
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