Technology access
I found Sean Healy's "No technofix for Third World poor" (GLW #460) a valuable description of the relationship between technology and society, but in error in its discussion of the internet. The internet is the first globally
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BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
Just days before the October demonstrations against corporate tyranny, socialist youth from across the country will be gathering in the Victorian town of Anglesea for the 30th Resistance national conference. The conference will
Activists in northern NSW are gearing up to participate in October protests in Brisbane during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting — and on August 11 50 of them gathered to discuss the issues, and debate the
BY SIMON BUTLER
BRISBANE — Activists building for the expected mass protests against corporate globalisation at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting on October 6 are fast learning that the Queensland police are prepared to use arrests,
BY PETER BOYLE
The discussion around the issue of the Socialist Alliance's preference policy at its founding conference revealed differences within the alliance over its orientation toward the Labor Party and the Greens which will undoubtedly be
BY MARK WAKEHAM & KIRSTEN BLAIR
DARWIN — Natural gas is currently being depicted as a clean source of energy, which will help to wean the industrialised world away from its dependence on oil and coal and play a key role in Australia's response to
Since the August 6 publication of a Daily Telegraph "special investigation" into "ethnic crime gangs", racist hysteria has been given considerable space in most 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ of the Sydney corporate media. When on August 7, a young white woman was raped,
BY CRAIG JOHNSTON
The Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union sees the Socialist Alliance as a very welcome development.
Working people are increasingly demanding strong, militant progressive unions to represent their needs
BY SEAN HEALY
Tens of thousands of Argentinians have risen up against their government's austerity plan, staging strikes and demonstrations and blockading highways throughout the country.
The three-day wave of protests, from August 13-15, is the
The BankWith David Wenham and Anthony LaPagliaWritten and directed by Robert ConnollyIn major cinemas from September 6.
REVIEWED BY SEAN HEALY
"Taut psychological thrillers" are two bob a dozen. So are ones with a nasty rich businessperson as
BY MARK BROWN
The city of Glasgow has been shocked by the racist murder of Kurdish asylum seeker Firsat Yildiz in the Sighthill area on August 4.
A refugee from the vicious repression of the Turkish state, 22-year-old Firsat was walking home with
BY JAMES CRAFTY
MELBOURNE — Tensions flared outside a private meeting addressed by former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in St Kilda on August 12, when 150 supporters of Palestinian self-determination were confronted by Zionists on the
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