Archive for April 15th, 2010
Canberra Labor Government directs its workers to scab on teachers
Posted by John, April 15th, 2010 - under NAPLAN, Scabs, Teachers.
Tags: ACT politics, Canberra, Canberra Greens, Canberra Labor, Community and Public Sector Union, CPSU
Comments: 5
Here in Canberra local Labor Party Education Minister Andrew Barr has threatened teachers who impose any NAPLAN test bans with the loss of four hours pay under Rudd’s workchoices law, the Fair Work Act. Can somebody explain to me again what exactly the difference is between Labor and the Liberals? The Australian Education Union’s response does […]
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The US – keeping its finger on the nuclear trigger
Posted by John, April 15th, 2010 - under Nuclear weapons, Obama, United States, US imperialism.
Comments: 3
THE OBAMA administration is out to upgrade the U.S. nuclear arsenal and pressure world leaders into imposing sanctions against countries–like Iran–that allegedly harbor ambitions to develop nukes of their own. That’s the agenda behind the Washington summit on nuclear security, which followed the announcement of a supposedly less belligerent U.S. nuclear strategy and the signing […]