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IYSSE Meetings
1914 to 2014:
The glorification of World War I and the preparations for World War III

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The Australian government has begun a truly grotesque campaign to “celebrate” World War I. It is aimed at promoting nationalism, patriotism and militarism as conflicts between the major powers escalate, creating potential flashpoints all over the world. These meetings of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at campuses across Australia and in New Zealand in March will review and discuss the causes and consequences of World War I and the necessity for a socialist perspective to fight the threat of a new world war.

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More support for May Day rally from Asia, Australia and New Zealand
2 May 2014
Workers and youth voice their concerns about the danger of a third world war.
Air search called off for missing Malaysia Airlines plane
2 May 2014
The air search has been replaced with an undersea survey in the southern Indian Ocean that is likely to take months.
Australian audit report sets out a corporate blueprint for social counter-revolution
2 May 2014
The recommendations involve the wholesale dismantling of the welfare state and a drastic reduction in real wages.
As Australian government draws up budget, Murdoch lays down the law
30 April 2014
The Murdoch press has declared that the forthcoming budget will be a test of how seriously the Abbott government is about ending the “age of entitlement.”

Australian car industry closure: A warning to workers internationally

Within Australia, the fate facing car workers is already being used to demand the end of “archaic” conditions like penalty rates and the overall slashing of wages and conditions. Internationally, it will be used to threaten and intimidate auto workers into bowing down to the next demands for cost-cutting that will be made against them.

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Australian prime minister outlines budget attacks on welfare and health
29 April 2014
Far from being for the good of the “country,” as Abbott claims, the planned budget cuts hit hardest at those on the lowest incomes.
Australia: Two miners crushed to death in underground wall collapse
29 April 2014
The two miners were killed when a catastrophic rock burst buried their continuous mining machine under tonnes of coal.
Greetings to Australian congress from the Canadian SEP
28 April 2014
Just as the Australian bourgeoisie is playing a leading role in the US “pivot to Asia,” so the Canadian bourgeoisie calculates that it can best assert its global interests by supporting a resurgen
Oppose political censorship at the University of Melbourne!
28 April 2014
The Clubs & Societies Committee at the University of Melbourne has bureaucratically blocked members of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality from affiliating their club.

 

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