440

BY NORM DIXON "I want someone to explain to me why it isn't called murder", said Stephen Lewis, former deputy director of the United Nations Children's Fund, in an article in the January 26 Toronto Globe and Mail. Lewis was commenting on the fact
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9-11pm. Ph 9565 5522. Access News — Melbourne community TV,
BY TONY ILTIS MELBOURNE — Two hundred and fifty people packed Trades Hall on March 8 to discuss the struggle of the Latrobe Valley power workers against attempts by Yallourn Energy and other privatised electricity corporations to slash jobs,
BY EVA CHENG The world's automobile industry is headed for big trouble again. Having triggered each of the eight recessions in the United States since the second world war, the US auto industry is plagued once again by a crisis of
The media coverage of Pauline Hanson has certainly built the following of One Nation. The media focus on Hanson during the lead up to elections in Western Australia and Queensland was astonishing. Following WA election night, the journalism in the
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 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 GRANT COLEMAN PERTH — Resistance is urging high school students here to strike from 8.30am on May 1 and join the blockade of this city's stock exchange in protest at corporate globalisation. Amie Hamilton, a Resistance member and high school
BY TRISHA REIMERS Big Kev is excited — and he should be, because he's discovered that, just like sex, nationalism sells (in his case, sells cleaning products). Big Kev is just another Aussie capitalist who's telling workers that they should
Napster The new buzz word of the internet is P2P. This stands for peer-to-peer, and refers to the swapping of information between two people connected to the internet via their personal computers. P2P follows B2C (business to
$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.
Resistance high school students' magazine focuses on M1 DARWIN — Following a successful first edition of Student Underground, which contained news on local International Women's Day events and East Timor solidarity, Resistance members here are