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Climate change

Resisting the EduFactory: Education for liberation

In every state and territory, at many tertiary educational institutions, students are resisting a tide of cuts, commodification and privatisation.

Refugee rights

Extreme self-harm rises on Nauru and Manus Island

Lip-stitching and attempted self-immolation are among increasingly extreme acts of self-harm taking place in Australia’s two offshore detention camps in recent weeks.

Sport

How capitalism is screwing sport

For those who believed in the “sanctity of sport” or see it as a way to escape from the harsh realities of the “real world”, it hasn't been a good month.

Violence against women

Oscar Pistorius and the deadly global system of misogyny

We will learn about everything except what actually matters: there is a global epidemic of violence against women, and South Africa is at its epicentre.

This week's Socialist Alliance 'Our Common Cause' column

Death on Grocon site – industrial manslaughter laws needed says socialist councillor

Experienced crane driver and union activist Billy Ramsay was killed on the Grocon construction site in central Melbourne on February 18. This news was buried many pages inside the Murdoch-owned Herald Sun daily tabloid.

THIS WEEK'S COLUMN BY RESISTANCE!, SOCIALIST YOUTH ORGANISATION

Resisting the EduFactory: Education for liberation

In every state and territory, at many tertiary educational institutions, students are resisting a tide of cuts, commodification and privatisation.

GREEN LEFT REPORT #12: Ten years since the biggest anti-war protests in history

Australian News

20,000 turn out to save the Kimberley

20,000 people turned out to hear the John Butler Trio, Missy Higgins and Bob Brown among others in a concert and rally and march for the Kimberley in Fremantle on February 24, 2013.

Community pressure makes CSG an election issue

When NSW members of parliament from both Labor and Coalition start campaigning against coal seam gas (CSG) — and the federal Labor Party starts musing that it might impose “strict regulations” on state governments to control the industry — you know that the movement against this dirty fossil fuel is starting to pack a punch.

Further Australian News

International News

Bougainville: Rio Tinto faces war crimes allegations in bid to reopen mine

British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto is seriously contemplating reopening its Bougainville copper and gold mine, Reuters reported on February 7.

Cuba creates four anti-cancer vaccines, media ignores it

That Cuba has already developed four vaccines or inoculations against different types of cancer is without doubt important news for humanity. However, the international mainstream media have almost totally ignored this news.

Further International News

Comment and Analysis

Police racism case shows Africans are a target

A civil trial expected to last eight weeks in the federal court in Melbourne was averted on February 18 by an agreement between the Victoria Police and six African-Australians suing them for racial discrimination and racial profiling.

Escaping school to protest the war

In year 10 at age 15, everyone was talking about the imminent Iraq war at school. I remember arguments in the playground about it. I got into [student anti-war group] Books Not Bombs when some year 12 students started advertising it around the school.

Further Comment and Analysis

Cultural Dissent

Education devastated by profit-first rule, academic shows

Universities were better in the olden days, says Dr Richard Hil in Whackademia.

HMV sackings: Cultural workers strike back

The massive UK entertainment retailer -- specializing in music, film, video games and other entertainment -- rang in the new year by running aground, with its British stores going into administration and its Irish locations shuttering entirely on January 15th.

Further Cultural Dissent

HMV sackings: Cultural workers strike...

Fighting Fund

Fighting fund: People's power does work

Over the past couple of weeks, Green Left Weekly has been collecting recollections, images, impressions and analyses of the biggest-ever globally coordinated anti-war protest in history: the 30 million-strong February 14-16, 2003, marches against the launching of the US-led invasion of Iraq. It was such a tremendous explosion of popular protest that it prompted New York Times columnist Patrick Tyler to write at the time there were perhaps “two superpowers on the planet — the United States, and worldwide public opinion”.

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