BY PETER BOYLEÂ
With the successful M1 mobilisations under its belt, the movement
against corporate globalisation will soon discuss its next major focus.
A month ago we floated the idea of a Canberra convergence against the
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BY KENNY BRUNO
SAN FRANCISCO — The winner of the Winter Greenwash Award is Philip Morris, the largest US-based tobacco corporation, for its "Working to make a difference" television ad campaign.
The commercials tell us moving stories of real
BY JOHN PASSANT
There are two emotions many Australian workers feel about globalisation — fear and anger. The fear is bred of insecurity about jobs, living standards and overwork. The anger is born of seeming helplessness. Ordinary working
SYDNEY — Thirty people packed into the Democratic Socialist Party's new office in Burwood on April 21, to launch the party's new inner-west branch, in the traditional style: with drink and laughter and hope for the future.
Three Days of RainBy Richard GreenbergSydney Theatre CompanyWharf Theatre, Walsh Bay, SydneyUntil May 13
REVIEW BY MARK STOYICH
The southern belle makes a welcome return to modern US theatre in this mid-'90s play by prolific New York playwright
Students at the University of Sydney are outraged at an unprecedented move by the university administration to prevent activists from publicising a public protest, the May 1 stock exchange blockade, and have vowed to launch a free speech campaign if harassment of activists continues.
BY PASTOR VALLE-GARAY
Pending US congressional approval, the White House's next ambassador to the UN will be a grey eminence of the United States' bloody Central America policy during the 1980s.
In his obsession to destroy the Sandinista
The Age of AccessBy Jeremy RifkinPenguin Books, 2000$45 (hb), 312 pages
REVIEW BY KARL MILLER
According to the cover notes to The Age of Access, Jeremy Rifkin makes his living from lecturing to "CEOs and corporate management". That is clearly the
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — As well as state governments trying to slash workers rights to fair compensation for injury, the federal government is aiming to push through its own attacks that will affect 285,655 commonwealth public sector and ACT
BY ADAM BAKER
BRISBANE — "I've never been to a public meeting where so many politicians have given so many apologies", stated Drew Hutton from the Queensland Greens. He was addressing an April 20 public meeting in Narangba, 30km north of
BY PIP HINMAN
The International Monetary Fund is tightening the screws on President Abdurrahman Wahid to deliver on austerity measures in return for its US$5 billion bailout package.
Following a review of Indonesia's neo-liberal economic reforms,
REVIEW BY NICK EVERETT
No LogoBy Naomi KleinHarper-Collins, 2000490pp., A$21.95
"A world united by Benetton slogans, Nike sweatshops and McDonald's jobs might not be anyone's utopian village", writes Canadian journalist Naomi Klein, "but its
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