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May Day 2012 – For full employment and the right to strike
The Communist Party of Australia calls for: more ...
Editorial – Indictment of the system
“Government spending on a range of social programs including education, health, housing, subsidised transport, social safety nets and retirement benefits has reached extraordinary levels as a percentage of GDP,” shadow treasurer Joe Hockey told a gathering in London last week. He was delivering a speech to the right-wing, neo-liberal Institute of Economic Affairs under the title “The end of the age of entitlement”. It was music to their ears, Thatcherite to the core. more ...
O’Farrell turns his sights on national parks
The NSW Liberal/National government is launching an inquiry into NSW national parks, particularly those created to protect the threatened river red gums of the Murray-Darling basin, and the other very large parks in northern NSW. more ...
Council of Australian Governments – Deregulation and privatisation agenda
Last month’s Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting saw considerable unity between state, federal and local governments – Liberal, National and Labor Party – and big business. The main focus of the meeting was on training, privatisation and deregulation to serve the interests of big business. more ...
WA anti-gas plant campaign hots up
The campaign to save the pristine coastline of James Price Point, north of Broome, from a $35 billion gas processing plant has gained momentum, with an adviser to the federal government condemning the developer’s social impact assessment (SIA). more ...
US-Israel war on Iran: The myth of limited warfare
The mounting threat of a US-Israeli military attack against Iran is based on several factors including: more ...
A quiet resistance
Sokari Ekine meets women’s movements in the Niger Delta and discovers that in this militarised region even small acts take courage. more ...
Culture & Life – The Dangers of Fascism in Europe Today
There will be a runoff in the French presidential election between Hollande, the Socialist party leader whose party has been associated with very centrist policies and Sarkozy, the president of the Centre-Right government which has supported the general “austerity” policies advanced most of all by Germany, the most powerful in terms of industrial and finance capital of the Eurozone nations. more ...
Pete's Corner
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Greeting from Liliany Obando to Australian trade union movement
Liliany Obando, political prisoner from Colombia recently released on bail, thanking the Australian trade union movement and the CFMEU WA in particular for their solidarity during her long imprisonement.
