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BRISBANE — Fifty people packed the Resistance Centre on May 5 to hear speakers on the M1 (May 1) blockades of Australian stock exchanges and the next step for the anti-corporate globalisation campaign.
Tim Stewart from the M1
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BY LINDA WALDRON
MELBOURNE — Six hundred Bradmill workers seized the opportunity presented by the re-enactment of the first sitting of federal parliament in Victoria's Parliament House on May 10 to mobilise to save their jobs. They demanded to
BY VIV MILEY
As if the federal government wasn't enough of a threat to Australia's crisis-ridden tertiary education system, an agreement currently under negotiation in the World Trade Organisation's Geneva headquarters could enforce the further
BY ZANNY BEGG
After the spectacular success of the M1 mobilisations many activists are turning their attention towards the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane, October 6-8, and the Commonwealth Business Council meeting in
BY DAVID GOSLING
CANBERRA — Supporters of democracy in Burma were attacked, and several injured, by police here on May 4 when they attempted to burn a Burmese flag outside the military regime's Canberra embassy.
The 80 protesters were calling
More than 900 people took part in a march in Edinburgh on May 5 to mark the 75th anniversary of the British general strike. Veteran Labour MP Tony Benn and Scottish Socialist Party MP Tommy Sheridan addressed the protest.
"People complain about the
BY EVA CHENG
Australia was singled out for praise by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld twice on May 7. That his praise came five days after US President George W. Bush's declaration of support for the National Missile Defence scheme was no
BY PETER PERKINS
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I was disappointed and disgusted at the ideas expressed
by Rob Gowland in a recent article of the Guardian newspaper on
the M1 protests [see accompanying box — Ed.].
Many of the opinions that have been put
BY JABULANE MATSEBULA
The Swaziland government launched a vicious attack on the freedom of speech and the press on May 4, when it issued an order to shut down the Guardian of Swaziland and the Nation Magazine.
Police impounded copies of the
BY JAMES CRAFTI & JODY BETZEIN
MELBOURNE — Around 250 people participated in the "regular" Friday evening Nike superstore blockade on Swanston Street on May 11. The Nike superstore was successfully shut-down by protesters for the eighth week in a
BY NOREEN NAVIN
SYDNEY — Pressure is mounting on Bob Carr's state Labor government to back down on its controversial "Building the Future" plan, which will force the closure of several inner-city high schools.
A rally outside the Department of
Indigenous elders from six Andean communities that grow nuna beans met in late February for a traditional Quechua "tribunal" to deliberate on US patent no. 6,040,503 on the "bean-nut popping bean" awarded to US food processor Appropriate Engineering
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