"Today has been really inspiring, seeing everybody coming together to challenge the power of corporations, the very basis of capitalism. It's shown that what was launched at S11 was not just a one off demonstration but a new movement. Blockading
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BY PETER BOYLE
Just seven months after S11, the radical left has once again tapped the powerful anti-corporate globalisation sentiment in the community. The 20,000 or more activists mobilised on May 1 across eight cities in Australia were cheered
"Blockading the stock exchange today we have given renewed confidence to people suffering under globalisation, that it is not inevitable. And we can stop it. This renewed confidence will mean that the protests around CHOGM will draw in ever wider
BY MAX LANE
Contrary to many predictions circulating in Jakarta during the last few weeks, the Indonesian capital remained calm after the Golkar-Central Axis-led majority in the House of Representatives voted to censure President Abdurrahman Wahid
BY JOHN PERCY
On May 1, the Socialist Workers Party in Scotland joined the Scottish Socialist Party, an historic development creating a united socialist party in Scotland for the first time in generations.
Tommy Sheridan, convener of the SSP, and
BY JAMES CRAFTI
MELBOURNE — While most of the M1 protests around Australia were marked by police violence, Melbourne's M1 blockade and rally was not attacked by police forces. So it came as a shock when the weekly peaceful picket of the Nike
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e-Imperialism
E-commerce isn't looking too healthy in the US today. The “new economy”
of the “dot coms” has shown remarkable similarities to traditional boom
and bust capitalist economies. If anything the rise and fall of the high-tech
The following greetings were received by the Democratic Socialist Party to be read out to the M1 rallies across Australia. They have been slightly abridged.
Socialist Workers Party, Britain
We would like to extend May Day greetings to you from
BY JAMES CAULFIELD & STUART MUNCKTON
CANBERRA — They say that this city is the place where anything can happen and usually doesn't. But, for once, on May 1, it did happen: the global anti-capitalist revolt hit Canberra.
Three hundred people
BY DAVE MURPHY
DARWIN — Chanting and music brought the generally sleepy business district of this city to life on May 1 as anti-corporate protesters peacefully blockaded the main entrance to the Northern Territory Chamber of Commerce, before
BY LISA MACDONALD
The May 2 Sydney Morning Herald editorial ("Globalisation for All") expressed surprise that May Day "should now be transmogrified into an all-purpose protest against a range of ills for which capitalism can, against all the
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