Want to fight climate change? – DUMP THE GOVERNMENT!
Last month residents of Gloucester, in the NSW upper Hunter Valley scored a very significant victory when the state’s Land and Environment Court ruled against construction of a huge new open cut coal mine near the town’s centre. The beautiful and fertile Gloucester countryside had already been hideously mauled by construction of a vast open cut mine south of the town. more ...
Editorial – International Women’s Day achievements
This year the International Women’s Day theme More powerful together emphasises the responsibility of all people, regardless of gender, in the struggle for women’s rights. In Australia much remains to be done. Women are still more subject to the denial of permanent employment than men, and their average pay rates fall far below those of their male workmates. more ...
Maritime Branch gets going with a bang!
The Maritime Branch of the Communist Party of Australia held its Annual General Meeting on January 31 amid reports of actions from all sections of the branch. more ...
No arms sales to Saudi Arabia!
Representatives of several Sydney peace groups and Communist Party of Australia organisations gathered on Thursday February 21, 11am outside the Sydney office of EOS at 75 Elizabeth Street to push home the message of No Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia! more ...
One Billion Rising
On Saturday March 2 at the Northbridge Piazza in Perth, One Billion Rising (OBR) held an event to highlight the need to address the incidence of domestic violence around the world and to empower the women and men of the world in a show of resistance and defiance to violence against women through song and dance. more ...
NO to US coup in Venezuela
The US government has decided it is time to get rid of the government the Venezuelan people have chosen for themselves and to stop in its tracks the Bolivarian social revolution that brought great benefits to Venezuela’s working men and women, especially its urban and rural poor, in health, housing and education. This revolution has renewed people’s dignity and promised young Venezuelans a better future. more ...
USAid – Let them eat bombs
The choreographed provocations on Venezuela’s borders highlight an often overlooked component of the US-orchestrated regime change machine – USAid (United States Agency for International Development). more ...
Sending the poor to war
UK: In the same week that the defence committee blasted “failed” mental health provision for veterans, a new report entitled “Selling the Military” has criticised military recruitment advertising for targeting groups, particularly disadvantaged children, who are likeliest to suffer adverse outcomes. more ...
Multiracial Oscars
LOS ANGELES: The segregation-era road-trip drama Green Book was crowned best picture at the 91st Academy Awards, delighting those who see the film as a feel-good throwback but disappointing others who ridicule it as an outdated inversion of Driving Miss Daisy. more ...
On the 6th anniversary of the passing of Hugo Chávez, Commander in chief of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, your example keeps defeating imperialism.
Chávez lives on!
Quote of the Week
In WW2 the pro-Nazi Vichy government in France changed the words on French coins from the revolutionary “Liberty, Fraternity, Equality” to a motto more reflective of its fascist rule: “Work, Family, Fatherland”.
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