We are on the brink of celebrating the 90th anniversary of Russias October Revolution, that beautiful, cherished uprising which asked for nobodys permission to turn the hopes that the world might one day belong to those who work on it into a reality.
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The following statement was issued by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN) on November 8.
A program for cultural transformation is being developed by ordinary Cypriots after the islands politicians have proved unable to resolve the Cyprus problem, which has figured in international politics for over half a century.
On November 7, the Israeli High Court of Justice gave Israeli PM Ehud Olmerts government one week to present data to back up its assertion that its newest economic sanctions against the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip planned electricity supply cuts in particular will not cause unreasonable harm to its 1.5 million residents.
In a striking piece of political theatre, on November 5 federal workplace ogre Joe Hockey promised to resign from a re-elected Howard ministry if the government changed Work Choices (significantly). “They can run all the scare campaigns they want”, Hockey said, “but the bottom line is if we are making any substantial changes to our laws, then I will resign.”
The November 2 British Independent reported that US- NATO ally Turkey has started to impose economic sanctions on Iraqi Kurdistan by stopping flights between Istanbul and Irbil, capital of the Kurdistan autonomous region in northern Iraq.
Les Malezer, chair of the UN Global Indigenous Caucus, which was responsible for drafting the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, spoke to a packed meeting in the Redfern community centre on October 28. Our wealth is that of our Indigenous values: land, culture and spirit, he said. Not in assimilation, not in power, not in dollars, not in telling our people what they should do, or running organisations that do the same. Our wealth is in our lands, territories and resources. And the forced theft of these means that there must be reparation.
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